UNSW Scientia PhD Scholar

Centre for Pain IMPACT; Sydney; Presencial; AUD 36.000 - 44.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Global Mobility Grant

Harvard Collaboration

Descripción de la vacante

Centre for Pain IMPACT at UNSW Medicine & Health invites applications for a fully funded PhD project starting 2027. The PhD will apply precision medicine to low back pain using causal inference and machine learning across national health databases and trial data.

The project includes a tax-free stipend of 39,991 AUD per year for 3.5 years and a 25,000 AUD Global Mobility Grant for international research and travel.

Formación

• Honours I/IIA, a research Masters, or an equivalent qualification (e.g. coursework Masters with substantial research).
• Australian domestic candidates only.

Responsabilidades

• Conduct interdisciplinary research on precision medicine for back pain.
• Apply causal inference and machine learning to health databases and clinical trial data.
• Collaborate with UNSW and Harvard teams and disseminate findings.

Conocimientos

Causal inference

Machine learning

Health data analysis

Educación

Honours I/IIA

Masters (research/MPH)

Herramientas

R

Python

SQL

Descripción del empleo

We have a fully funded PhD project starting 2027, with joint supervision and global mobility grant to Harvard University to research the new frontier of precision medicine for back pain.This UNSW Medicine & Health Scientia PhD will apply precision medicine to low back pain: using causal inference and machine learning across nationwide health databases and clinical trial data to predict who benefit from which treatment.

$39,991 p.a. (tax free) stipend for 3.5 years

$25,000 Global Mobility Grant for international research and travel

Supervision from Prof James H McAuley and myself at the Centre for Pain IMPACT

Co-supervision from A/Prof Issa Dahabreh at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

(CAUSALab) — and time working with his team in Boston.

Qualifications

Honours I/IIA, a research Masters, or an equivalent qualification e.g. a coursework Masters (e.g. MPH) with a substantial research component is often assessed as equivalent

Australian domestic candidates only.

More info here:

https://www.unsw.edu.au/research/hdr/our-projects/personalised-spine-surgical-care