The Centre for Health Informatics is offering four full-time PhD scholarships to undertake research in the following areas:
Communicable disease informatics and biosurveillance
Agent-based models of communication in health organisations
Clinical communication system design
Decision-making and computational discovery technologies for the clinical biosciences
Further details about each of these topic are available at: here.
We are also happy to review proposals from exceptional candidates to
carry out research in other areas related to the Centre’s overall
research program.
Each scholarship provides an annual tax-free stipend of $25,627
per annum in 2007 (tax exempt) for three years and will be awarded on a
competitive basis.
Applicants should be Australian citizens or permanent
residents. Selection criteria include: quality of academic record (HI
or HIIA honours degree or equivalent in computer science; engineering,
medicine, or other relevant disciplines); an interest in health /
biomedical informatics, potential for completing a PhD; good
communication skills and commitment to team working.
Your application should address the selection criteria and
include a detailed curriculum vitae, evidence of academic
qualifications plus names, address (postal and/or email), phone and fax
numbers of two referees, and should be forwarded to Dr. Farah Magrabi,
Centre for Health Informatics, University of New South Wales, Sydney
2052, or by email:
.
Contact:
Enquiries may be directed to Prof. Enrico Coiera (
) or Dr. Farah Magrabi (
).
