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Imperial College School of Medicine MRC PhD Studentship & Collaborative Studentship in Epidemiology and Biostatistics We are seeking enthusiastic and highly motivated individuals to join a prestigious and stimulating research environment centred on the Departments of Epidemiology & Public Health and Medical Statistics & Evaluation. The departments’ focus includes leading-edge work in spatial statistics and Bayesian statistical methods, epidemiology, medical statistics, statistical computing, clinical trials and meta-analysis. Candidates are invited to propose projects in these areas, in addition to those listed below. Studentships will commence in October, 1998. MRC RESEARCH/COLLABORATIVE STUDENTSHIPS (closing date: 10th July, 1998) · Space-time interactions between cardio-respiratory mortality and air pollution across London · Methods for investigating the relationship between underlying risk and treatment benefit in meta-analysis · Heterogeneity in couple fertility: the use of frailty models · Modelling the population transmission of gonococcal infection in the population · Bayesian methods for modelling variation in health indicators · Transformation in the analysis of hierarchical medical data, with focus on fetal monitoring · Errors-in-variables modelling in nutritional epidemiology · Adverse reproductive outcomes and exposure to chlorination by-products in the water supply · Development of exposure modelling techniques for epidemiological studies considering constituents of drinking water · Background incidence of gastro-intestinal tract disease and water-borne micro-organisms INFORMAL ENQUIRIES may be made to Professor Paul Elliott, Epidemiology & Public Health (email: [log in to unmask], telephone 0171 594 3328), Professor Simon Thompson, Medical Statistics & Evaluation (email: [log in to unmask], telephone: 0181 383 1572), Professor Patrick Royston, Medical Statistics & Evaluation ([log in to unmask], telephone: 0181 383 8425), Dr Jon Wakefield, Epidemiology & Public Health ([log in to unmask], telephone: 0171 594 3336). APPLICATIONS: please send a letter and CV, including the names of two referees, to Mr Simon Sheffield, Departmental Manager, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, Imperial College School of Medicine, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG (email: [log in to unmask], fax: 0171 402 2150, telephone: 0171-594 3317). %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%