We have a fully funded PhD project starting 2027, with joint supervision and global mobility grant to Harvard University to research the current frontier of precision medicine for back pain.This UNSW Medicine & Health Scientia PhD will apply precision medicine to low back pain: using causal inference and machine learning across nationwide health databases and clinical trial data to predict who benefit from which treatment.

$39,991 p.a. (tax free) stipend for 3.5 years

$25,000 Global Mobility Grant for international research and travel

Supervision from Prof James H McAuley and myself at the Centre for Pain IMPACT

Co-supervision from A/Prof Issa Dahabreh at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

(CAUSALab) — and time working with his team in Boston.

Qualifications

Honours I/IIA, a research Masters, or an equivalent qualification e.g. a coursework Masters (e.g. MPH) with a substantial research component is often assessed as equivalent

Australian domestic candidates only.

More info here:

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📌 UNSW Scientia PhD Scholar (Sydney)
🏢 Centre for Pain IMPACT
📍 Sydney