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The Digital Public Health program provides courses in English.
Le programme Digital Public Health dispense des cours en anglais.
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Selected within the French “Investments for the Future” program as an “Initiative of Excellence”, the PhD program in Digital Public Health is strongly focused on innovation and cross-disciplinarity. Students benefit from a variety of educational programs, ambitious training initiatives, international conferences and top-quality research facilities and attend a series of classes in public health, epidemiology, informatics, statistics and the basics of health communication, economics, law, sociology and anthropology. 
Our researchers and partners offer workshops based on their diverse and complementary expertise, such as modeling in health, mobile technologies for mental health, or evaluation of complex interventions.

Digital Public Health is one of the Graduate Programes of the Graduate Research School of the University of Bordeaux.

 

THE COHORT

A group of doctoral students from various backgrounds interested in the digital public health domain and issues, and enrolled in a thesis at the Bordeaux University in one of its 8 doctoral schools.
The subject of their thesis is related to the DPH environment ex. the evaluation of a smartphone app for running, machines learning to predict suicidality, etc.
Students must have a great written and oral level in English and be willing to work in an interdisciplinary research environment.
All PhD students from the Bordeaux Population Health belong to the cohort.
As members of the cohort, PhD students have (1) the right to attend free classes on public health, statistics, epidemiology, computer science and (2) benefit from long and short stays in different countries for congresses or collaborations (these stays are offered by the Digital Public Health graduate program).

Like for the Master’s program in Public Health Data Science, one of our PhD students spent half of her PhD period in McGill and is spending the other half in Bordeaux. She is due to obtain a double diploma. She has two supervisors, one from McGill and another from the University of Bordeaux.

 

GRANT AND MOBILITY SCHOLARSHIP

The Graduate Research School devotes a substantial part of its budget to supporting its PhD students through grants, in particular in terms of taking part in conferences and oral presentations on a national and/or international scale.

Mobility grants are offered to PhD students from the University of Bordeaux who want to do a research visit in a foreign institution or university.
Since 2022, over 50 PhD students have benefited from support for their projects.

Two calls for applications are made every year:
➡️ Winter Call: Applications in January / Grants awarded in April / Departures possible from May onwards
➡️ Summer Call: Applications in June-July/ Grants awarded in October / Departures possible from November onwards
 

For more information, visit: https://doctorat.u-bordeaux.fr/en/during-phd/international-mobility/funding-mobility

HOW TO APPLY ?

The Graduate Program Digital Public Health doctoral contracts are open to applicants from all disciplines related to digital public health, regardless of their original field of study. Students must hold a Master's degree in one of the program's main disciplines in order to be eligible (public health, informatics, epidemiology, statistics, mathematics, sociology, etc.). The research subject must explicitly be related to digital public health.
In addition, the applicant should :

→ Have acquired solid research skills through their career.
→ Demonstrate an excellent academic and scientific level.
→ Have a very good command of both spoken and written English (minimum level C1).
→ Demonstrate the ability to work in an interdisciplinary environment.

For more information, visit: https://doctorat.u-bordeaux.fr/en

 

ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS

• Be enrolled in a PhD program at the time of application and throughout the period of mobility in a PhD program at the University of Bordeaux.
• Be hosted by a foreign institution or university.

For more information, visit: https://doctorat.u-bordeaux.fr/funding-mobility

 

USEFUL DOCUMENTS

Training program
PhD applications call 2024
Application form

For more information, contact: dph@u-bordeaux.fr