PhD student position available to develop his/her thesis within the SUPPORT project (funded by EDCTP3): action ‘Supporting the next generation of African researchers on preventing HIV pediatric mortality through a training network‘, a highly multidisciplinary, international and competitive training program in pediatrics research
RESEARCH PROJECT: EVALUATE THE USE OF AI DEVICES TO MONITOR EARLY SIGNS OF RESPIRATORY FAILURE TO REDUCE POST DISCHARGE MORTALITY
RESEARCH PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Among the high proportion of children that died during a post discharge period a big proportion die at home without consulting Grunting is a sound related to severe pneumonia that can be present when the children get worse The goal is to develop an application based on a telemedicine platform to automatically record children’s respiratory sounds, with three objectives first, to make it available to the doctor in real time for direct clinical assessment second, to train and automatically run an algorithm capable of detecting the pattern of grunting associated to respiratory failure third, to estimate respiratory rate automatically from the audio Our final goal is to develop a tool for remote monitoring of signs of respiratory distress associated with pneumonia, and eventually, with PDM
WHAT WE OFFER
- A 36 month contract to undertake a PhD at Makerere University ( Uganda)
- A competitive gross salary according to the Marie Sklodowska Curie training network tables taking into account family status and mobility (gross salary including employer’s social contribution and without family allowance: 2,284.80 €/Month)
- The integration in a network composed of 14 European and African institutions specialized in pediatrics
- A 3 month secondment at Universidad Europea de Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
- An extensive multidisciplinary training in research and transferable skills
- The Access to state-of-the-art infrastructures
REQUIREMENTS
- Hold a bachelor degree in medicine and surgery (MBChB) or equivalent, or a master degree in a relevant field ( bioinformatics or a clinical discipline)
- Strong interest in information technology and artificial intelligence
- Proficiency in English (oral and written) is mandatory (an interview in English will be conducted during the recruitment process)
- Willingness to work for at least two years in a Sub-Saharan country after the PhD completion
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
- Be a citizen or resident of a Sub-Saharan country.
Expected starting date: January 2025
Send your CV, a cover letter detailing your motivation to pursue a research career in pediatric infectious diseases in Sub-Saharan African, a recommendation letter and an additional contact for recommendation, to globalhealth.pediatrics.group@gmail.com before June 14th 2024. Please quote the reference ESC 6 in the object of the email.