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The *MRC-PHE Centre for Environment * *and Health* is delighted to announce our new *MRC Early Career Research Fellowship programme*. This fellowship programme is a new initiative designed to attract into the Centre exceptional candidates with 0-4 years of postdoctoral experience seeking to develop their own independent programme of research in environment and health sciences. We intend to recruit, train and develop the next generation of future research and policy leaders from these key disciplines: · environmental and molecular epidemiology · exposure science · computational biology · data science · bioinformatics · biostatistics · spatial epidemiology · geographical information systems (GIS) · spatial epidemiology and small area health statistics · analytical sciences (genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, adductomics) · mechanistic toxicology · physical, environment and mathematical sciences *MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health* The MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health was formed in June 2009 as a partnership between Imperial College (lead institution) and King’s College London, funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) and Health Protection Agency (now Public Health England, PHE). The Director is Professor Paul Elliott (Imperial) and the Deputy Director is Professor Frank Kelly (King’s). The Centre incorporates the UK Small Area Health Statistics Unit (SAHSU) at Imperial College, the Environmental Research Group (ERG) at King’s College London, in addition to bringing together leading researchers from four (of six) departments of the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College (including the National Heart and Lung Institute), and researchers at King’s College, St George’s University of London and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The Centre is internationally recognised in research on environment and health along with providing vibrant cross-disciplinary research training. The Centre promotes novel cross disciplinary approaches, integrating individual-level and small-area analyses of environmental exposures and health, together with experimental data, biomarker and mechanistic studies, and analyses of large population cohorts. The Centre’s establishment in 2009 catalysed a number of new research programmes which would not have otherwise occurred. The Centre was renewed for a further five years in 2014. The new funding will allow the Centre to build on its key strengths in multidisciplinary research in environment and health by integrating new technologies and methodologies to advance understanding of the causes and effects of key environmental issues affecting the health of the population as well as improving the science base underlying translation of knowledge on the effects of the environment on health into national and international policies. *MRC Early Career Research Fellowship Programme* A key component of the Centre’s strategic aim and mission is to train and develop a new generation of research and policy leaders by addressing longer-term strategic skills shortages in the environment and health sciences through our Centre’s Early Career Fellowship Programme. This programme is a new initiative funded by the MRC and is designed to attract into the environment and health sciences exceptional candidates seeking their first postdoctoral position or with up to 4 years of postdoctoral experience. The Centre provides a supportive, multi-disciplinary environment in the leading areas of research in the environment and health sciences to take forward this innovative programme. The programme provides a unique opportunity for early-career scientists to develop the skills needed to meet future research challenges in the environment and health arena, thus seeding and strengthening the discipline both nationally and internationally. Successful candidates are expected to develop their own competitive, independent research programmes within the tenure of the fellowship. Specifically, within the first 18 months of the fellowship, the appointee is expected to develop and submit to major grant funding bodies a coherent and competitive research proposal for a mid-career fellowship. The fellowship supports the full salary costs of the appointee plus reasonable research expenses for up to three years. More information can be found on our website http://www.environment-health.ac.uk/centres-fellowship-programme Please forward this information on to any talented early career researchers within your area of research and network who might be interested in this unique opportunity. *For informal discussion please contact Chun Siew ([log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>), the Centre scientific manager.* You may leave the list at any time by sending the command SIGNOFF allstat to [log in to unmask], leaving the subject line blank.