Department of Health Sciences
The Department of Health Sciences, University of Groningen (the Netherlands), is presently seeking to fill up a postdoc position (0.8 fte) on the theme "Internationals aspects of reproductive and child health" in its section of Community and Occupational Medicine. The position is for four years, with a perspective on a tenured position thereafter.
The section Community and Occupational Medicine conducts research and provides teaching, to contribute to disease prevention and health promotion. The section employs over 70 academic people engaging in multidisciplinary research on social issues such as the psychosocial care of children and adolescents and employee health protection, in close collaboration with professionals working in these fields. It is successful in terms of publications, PhD defences and research turnover. Internationally, the section collaborates with research partners in various countries.
The teaching responsibilities of the section include teaching medical students (taught in both Dutch and English (
www.rug.nl/bachelors/medicine/) and students of the Research Master Clinical and Psychosocial Epidemiology (only English;
www.rug.nl/masters/clinical-and-psychosocial-epidemiology-research/). Responsibilities involve programme coordination, small-group teaching and thesis supervision. Community and Occupation Medicine is also one of the compulsory clerkships in the Master’s degree programme (M2).
The Global Health unit within Health Sciences consists of two professors and two senior staff members (all part-time), and of approximately 25 PhD-students mostly working abroad. Its research domains regard reproductive and child health (inclusive vaccines), infectious and chronic disease, and health systems closely collaborating with a multidisciplinary team of professionals working in Groningen.
Within the field of Reproductive and Child Health, collaboration has been set up with the John Hopkins Program for International Education in Gynecology and Obstetrics,
www.jhpiego.org. This facilitates JHPIEGO senior staff to set up PhD-research projects, making use of the data that have already been collected. Further, a long-term collaboration exists with Central Europe, in particular Slovakia. This collaboration currently hosts 6 PhD students on child & youth health and 4 in chronic disease. It is the ambition of the Global Health section to grow towards a comprehensive unit covering the most important fields of Global Health, in particular reproductive and child & youth health, infectious and chronic disease in their interplay with health systems, including health economics.