瑞典卡罗林斯卡医学院围产期流行病学博士后职位

The Department of Medicine, Solna, is one of the largest departments at Karolinska Institutet. The department consists of several units that are separated into different research groups. The core activities of the department are research, doctoral education and undergraduate education for medical and biomedical students. The research has three main profiles: allergy, cardiovascular medicine and inflammatory diseases.

Internationally, the Nordic countries have been known as a "goldmine" for epidemiological research, particularly due to our systems of individually unique personal registration numbers, access to national demographic and health registries, and health care, predominantly funded by public sources, of high and uniform quality. Karolinska Institutet's vision is to further develop and integrate the unique resources for epidemiological research in Sweden such as biobanks, longitudinal cohorts, and newly available data sources such as computerized patient systems, the multigeneration- and prescription registries and quality of care registries. The Strategic Research Program in Epidemiology has three themes of research: i) Human Interactions with Microorganisms; ii) Molecular, Genetic and Clinical Epidemiology; and iii) Lifespan approach to Health and Disease.

Division
Unit of Clinical Epidemiology

Duties
Perinatal epidemiology focus on factors influencing health of the fetus and newborn infant. As the start of life is important for future health, there is also a focus on long-terms risks of diseases and disability in perinatal epidemiology.

The proposed work will include collaboration between obstetricians, pediatricians, epidemiologists and statisticians working within perinatal epidemiology at the Clinical Epidemiology Unit. Data sources include cohorts from national registers and data the counties of Stockholm, Uppsala, and Gotland. The work will include studies of hereditary and environmental (related to both mother’s life style, pregnancy and delivery complications) factors and health of offspring at delivery, during infancy (the first year of life) and later in life. More specifically, some of the projects involve:
1. associations between maternal obesity and offspring health;
2. asphyxia in the newborn: definitions, risk factors, short and long-term consequences;
3. The maternal and paternal contribution to pregnancy and delivery complications

Entry requirements
Applicants should have a PhD degree or equivalent in epidemiology, public health sciences, pediatrics or obstetrics and gynecology.

Basic knowledge of epidemiologic study designs/methods, analytic and programming skills are prerequisites. Previous research within perinatal epidemiology is a strong merit. Likewise, clinical work within the fields of obstetrics and/or pediatrics are strong merits. It is assumed that the applicant is fluent in English, spoken and written.

A person is eligible for a position as postdoctoral research fellow if he or she has obtained a PhD no more than seven years before the last date of employment as postdoc.

Application process
An employment application must contain the following documents in English or Swedish:
1.A complete curriculum vitae, including date of the thesis defence, title of the thesis, previous academic positions, academic title, current position, academic distinctions, and committee work
2.A complete list of publications
3.A summary of current work (no more than one page)
4.Verifications for crediting of illness, military service, work for labour unions or student organisations, parental leave or similar circumstances
5.Verification from the thesis defence committee or the equivalent (only if the thesis defence is scheduled within three months after the application deadline)…