The Institute of Primary Health Care of the University of Bern (BIHAM) is dedicated to train and foster the next generation of primary care physicians and to carry out research in primary health care, epidemiology, and public health. The BIHAM offers a lively, interdisciplinary environment with excellent methodological support and access to a large network of practicing primary care physicians.
We are seeking a Ph D student to work on the project “Evidence synthesis methods to predict personalized treatment effects” at the Institute of Primary Health Care (BIHAM), at the University of Bern. This is a project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. The overarching aim of the project is to develop new statistical methods for tailoring the choice of treatment to the individual characteristics, needs, and preferences of patients. The main objectives of the project are to develop new statistical methods for:

• predicting treatment efficacy and safety at the individual level (“personalized medicine”)
• estimating effects of different dosing schemes of interventions
• evaluating the performance of models predicting individual treatment effects.

All methodological developments will be illustrated in real medical examples, using datasets from mental health, cardiology, neurology and rheumatology. The post holder will have the opportunity to collaborate with world leading experts in evidence synthesis, biostatistics, and epidemiology, and will acquire expertise in a wide range of skills.
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