Postdoctoral Researcher in Epidemiology and Causal inference - Hiring in process/Finished, not possible to apply

Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research?

The epidemiological research at the Institute of Environmental Medicine (IMM) is focused on advancing knowledge about disease etiology and prognosis with an emphasis on environmental and lifestyle factors, and on methodological development and stringency. Another line of research constitutes the application of causal inference methods to longitudinal observational data and randomized trials. The research is based on the unique resource of Swedish and Nordic nationwide population registers and clinical quality registries as well as cohorts and case-control studies with extensive information from questionnaires and biological samples.

The position is 2 years and will be based in the group CAUSALab at the Unit of Epidemiology, IMM, Karolinska Institutet (KI). The research group is devoted to understanding how to best utilize Swedish health data for causal inference. This includes developing, utilizing, and adapting cutting-edge methodologies, with an interest in how they can be operationalized in the Swedish and Nordic context.

Your mission

The work will include comparative effectiveness research, with an emphasis on causal inference methods for complex longitudinal data from both observational studies and randomized trials. Methods for benchmarking and joint analyses of trials and their emulations will be applied to two motivating use cases on the treatment of acute myocardial infarction. The research will be based on data from Swedish population and health data registers, health care quality registers and registry-based randomized trials. The Postdoctoral researcher will conduct day-to-day project activities, such as writing of protocols and detailed analysis plans, performing data management, conducting analyses, preparing reports on analytical results, presenting findings at project meetings and contribute to drafting of manuscripts. The work will be conducted within the research project entitled “Randomized Trials and Their Observational Emulations – Benchmarks and Joint Analyses”, funded by the Patient-Oriented Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). The project is a collaboration between the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA and Karolinska Institutet. The Postdoctoral fellow will be supervised by Anita Berglund and Anthony Matthews at the CAUSALab IMM, KI and Issa Dahabreh and Miguel Hernán, CAUSALab at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and IMM, KI. The Postdoctoral researcher will be part of a wider group of researchers working primarily within casual inference methods using Swedish register data.

Your profile

To be eligible for employment as a postdoctor a doctoral degree or a foreign degree deemed to be equivalent to a doctoral degree is required. This eligibility requirement must be fulfilled at the latest at the time of the employment decision. It is considered as an advantage if you have completed your doctoral degree within the last three years, if there are special reasons, your degree may have been completed earlier.

Qualifications

To be eligible, the applicant must have:

• A doctoral degree related to epidemiology, statistics, biostatistics, or a related quantitative field.
• A formal education in epidemiology or statistics.
• Experience in handling large databases, excellent data management skills and a solid knowledge of common statistical software (as a minimum SAS or R).

Competences, skills, and experiences considered meritorious:  

• Excellent writing skills and excellent command of written and spoken English.
• An ability to collaborate with colleagues within and beyond the group.
• Previous supervision of PhD or Master students.

What do we offer?

A creative and inspiring environment with wide-ranging expertise and interests. Karolinska Institutet is one of the world's leading medical universities. At Karolinska Institutet, we conduct successful medical research and hold the largest range of medical education in Sweden. At KI, you get to meet researchers working with a wide range of specialisms and methods, giving you ample opportunity to exchange knowledge and experience with the various scientific fields within medicine and health. It is the crossover collaborations, which have pushed KI to where it is today, at the forefront of global research. Several of the people you meet in healthcare are educated at KI. A close relationship with the health care providers is important for creating groundbreaking top quality education and research. Karolinska Institutet is also a state university, which entitles you to several benefits through our collective agreement.

Location: Institute of environmental medicine, Solna

Application

An employment application must contain the following documents in Swedish or English (preferably):

•  A complete resumé, including date of the thesis defense, title of the thesis, previous academic positions, academic title, current position, academic distinctions, and committee work
• A complete list of publications
• Personal letter of motivation and summary of current work (no more than two pages) 

Welcome to apply at the latest 2023-05-29

The application is to be submitted through the Varbi recruitment system.

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