Announcement
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POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN e-EPIDEMIOLOGY
KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET
Stockholm, Sweden

The Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics has an opening available immediately for a postdoctoral scientist interested in multidisciplinary training in e-epidemiology. E-epidemiology is the science underlying the acquisition, maintenance, retrieval and application of epidemiological knowledge and information using digital media such as the Internet, cell-phones, digital paper, digital TV and biobanking.  E-epidemiology also refers to the large-scale science that will increasingly be conducted through distributed global collaborations enabled by the Internet.

We are looking for a young, dedicated scholar, keen to integrate knowledge in epidemiologic theory, modern information technology and biobanking, and to pursue cutting edge research. The position is from 1-4 years.

Presently employing one hundred and sixty staff with nine full professors and about forty graduate students, the department is one of the biggest epidemiology units in Europe. Unique Swedish resources and prerequisites - such as the Twin Register, several large prospective studies, ongoing nationwide case-control studies, large nationwide databases including the cancer register and in-patient discharge register, record linkage capabilities and access to clinical data as well as biologic material - are effectively explored at the department. Further information can be found at http://www.meb.ki.se/

Please send a letter of application, the names and contact details of three references and a short CV and brief statement of research goals to Professor Jan-Eric Litton by e-mail jan-eric.litton@... or the head of administration Birgitta Svensson. Deadline for applications is April 1^st, 2005. Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Box 281, SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden.