Phd Post On Modelling Of The Transmission And Prevention Of Blood Borne Infectious Diseases in Injecting Drug Users, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, NL

The PhD candidate will work as part of a multidisciplinary team that has long-standing experience in collaboration on the interface between mathematical modeling and statistics, epidemiology and public health. The project will be conducted within the Utrecht Centre for Infection Dynamics, which is a newly founded centre of collaboration between the University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht University and the RIVM with an active involvement of the research team of the Public Health Service Amsterdam (GGD Amsterdam). The UCID seeks to bring together expertise in epidemiology, microbiology, immunology, mathematics, biostatistics, and public health. The project will be conducted in close collaboration with researchers at the GGD Amsterdam, who are leading the Amsterdam Cohort Studies. At the GGD Amsterdam an epidemiologist will work on this project to extract and interpret the epidemiological data needed for statistical and mathematical analysis. In a wider context, the project will be embedded in ongoing collaboration with the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA). Deadline: 30 June 2009