2025 HDR Scholarship - Advancing mechanistic models of RSV transmission to guide and assess public vaccination programs (a STAMP RSV Program project) PhD Scholarship

Curtin University, Australia

Updated: 1 day ago
Location: Perth, WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Status: Closed

Applications open: 15/05/2025
Applications close: 31/05/2025

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About this scholarship

This scholarship is funded as part of the STAMP RSV Program, supported by the Stan Perron Charitable Foundation. The PhD candidate will play an important role in developing models of RSV transmission and vaccination efficacy to inform and assess the roll-out of new RSV vaccines across Australia.  Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a pathogen of global importance and is an important cause of chest infections in babies and young children. 

Mechanistic modelling of disease transmission involves the use of computer code to represent the epidemic dynamics of infectious disease spread within the community.  This allows modellers to forecast disease burden under alternative vaccination schedules and to assess the impacts of completed vaccination programs against baseline transmission counterfactuals.  This project will build on existing compartmental models for RSV developed within the STAMP-RSV program by tailoring an established software library for individual simulation to the Australian RSV transmission context. Information to parameterise the demographic profiles and contact networks of the individual simulation model will be drawn from Virtual WA: a geospatial analysis platform built in-house by A/Prof Cameron and Camilo Vargas at The Kids.  


  • Future Students

  • Faculty of Health Sciences

  • Higher Degree by Research

  • Australian Citizen
  • Australian Permanent Resident
  • New Zealand Citizen
  • Permanent Humanitarian Visa
  • International Student

  • Merit Based

This scholarship provides a living stipend of $37,500.00 p.a. pro rata indexed, based on full-time studies, for up to a maximum of 3.5 years. Tuition Fee offset has been approved by the Head of School of the School of Population Health. 

 


Scholarship Details

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Any HDR student eligible to enroll in a PhD in the epidemiology field


  • Undergraduate degree with Honours or Masters in Science with units in mathematics and/or biostatistics
  • Demonstrated coding experience: either undergraduate units in computer science or coding experience gained through Honours or Masters research work
  • Local and international students are welcome
  • Full-time onshore enrolment


Application process

Any future students, please contact us via the EOI form


Enrolment Requirements

Recipients must complete their milestone 1 within 6 months of enrolment and remain enrolled on a full-time basis for the duration of the scholarship


Enquiries

Meghan Paul: Meghan.Paul@thekids.org.au OR 

A/Prof Hannah Moore: hannah.moore@thekids.org.au


Further Information

This scholarship is part of a funded program of work, the STAMP RSV (Surveillance, Transmission, Attitudes, Modelling, Policy) Program funded by the Stan Perron Charitable Foundation. 



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