Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM)

Job Openings

We currently have the following vacancies:

PhD student for a participatory research project on hearing loss after childhood cancer

20.08.2021 – During your PhD you will:

  • Set up a novel community-based approach to screen for hearing loss in childhood cancer survivors across Switzerland
  • Initiate and lead a stakeholder advisory panel including childhood cancer survivors, health care professionals (pediatric oncologists, audiologists, and general practitioners) and representatives from the industry
  • Evaluate the intervention based on the RE-AIM framework using qualitative and quantitative methods (e.g. by performing semi-structured interviews)
  • Contribute to the clinical data collection on hearing loss
  • Collaborate with a broad team of pediatricians, epidemiologists, statisticians, and other PhD students
  • Present your results in international meetings and publish them in peer-reviewed journals
PhD student for a participatory research project on hearing loss after childhood cancer (PDF, 146KB)

Epidemiologist/Statistician/Research fellow (80%) in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine

14.07.2021 – Main tasks:

  • Analyse data from clinical and population-based cohort studies to determine risk factors and prognosis of cough and wheeze in children; develop prediction models and distinguish phenotypes
  • Write publications in peer-reviewed journals and present results at conferences
  • Support PhD students in manuscript preparation and statistical analyses
Epidemiologist/Statistician/Research fellow (80%) in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine (PDF, 532KB)