Multimorbidity PhD programme for Health Professionals
Description: This Programme will address the substantial challenges posed by increasing multimorbidity. Hosted in the Scottish societal context, where multimorbidity is a significant health concern, but examining globally relevant problems, it will create a generation of innovative world-class researchers empowered to find ways to prevent multimorbidity, discover pathways tractable to novel intervention, and optimise management. We will achieve this through PhD projects designed to build synergistic, multidisciplinary collaborations across participating institutions, promoting new thinking on this complex topic. Fellows will be recruited from a range of clinical/health professional backgrounds and experience the mentorship/skills training and support that will enable them to become future research leaders and make transformative contributions to multimorbidity and its clinical management internationally. We will promote intellectual curiosity, scientific rigour, peer learning, research integrity, translation into practice, public engagement and the principles of equality and diversity while imparting cutting-edge analytical skills. Underpinned by the track-records and resources of the Universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, and St Andrews, we will offer exceptional opportunities for clinical research across the translational spectrum from examining aetiology and mechanisms, through data science and epidemiology, to applied clinical research in a unique collaborative training environment, promoting development of a critical mass of multimorbidity researchers.
Funder: Wellcome Trust
Amount: £8,569,000
Funding type: training-grant
Funder scheme: Cross-Remit
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2029-10-31
Investigators: Frances Mair, Ewan Pearson, Colin McCowan, Bruce Guthrie
Institutions: University of Glasgow, University of Dundee, University of St Andrews, University of Edinburgh
Subfield: Epidemiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Funded outputs count: 51
Funder award ID: 223499
OpenAlex ID: G1636476019