UiT The Arctic University of Norway has established «The Arctic MSCA-PF program» (uit.no/project/arcticmsca) to recruit excellent young researchers planning to apply for a Marie Skƚodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (MSCA-PF) to pursue a career in research. We invite applications from promising young researchers within the field of Epidemiology and Pharmacoepidemiology. The selected candidate will write a proposal for a 24-month MSCA-PF at UiT together with Associate Professor Kristian Svendsen. This is an opportunity to accelerate your research career while living in the urban research city of Tromsø, uniquely located at the top of the world surrounded by some of Europe’s last pristine wild nature.

This call is one of 70 from pre-selected supervisors at UiT The Arctic University of Norway through the “Arctic MSCA-PF program”. Successful postdoc candidates will be invited for a three-day MSCA-PF symposium June 4-6, 2024 (hybrid physical/digital event, see details at uit.no/project/arcticmsca/program-structure). At this event, the candidates will present their past research achievements, discuss future plans with their potential supervisor and learn how to write a successful MSCA-PF application. The selected candidates will, jointly with the supervisor, write the MSCA-PF application by the deadline of September 11, 2024. In this call we search for talented, young researchers within the field of Epidemiology and Pharmacoepidemiology as presented by Associate Professor Svendsen:

We use nationwide, complete coverage, medical registries covering hospital admissions, primary care visits and dispensed medications from pharmacies in Norway to study various aspects of medication use and related outcomes. Currently we are using very large datasets to study how we can predict all-cause hospital admissions and we are also studying modifiable factors that affect this risk. We are also developing methods to do this in the areas of network analyses, machine learning and more traditional pharmacoepidemiology, We have ethical approval that covers this wide field of research and ideas that deal with hospital admissions as an outcome and various types of health-related risk factors are welcome. Novel methodologies and approaches to study this are also highly welcomed. 

Please send your CV (max 3 pages) and describe a research project that will strengthen and complement the presented research (max 2 pages) to kristian.svendsen@uit.no by Feb 16th 2024. Mark your application "Arctic MSCA". Successful candidates will be contacted in late March 2024.