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SickKids: Child Growth and Development Fellowship

Posted by GHO Admin on August 21, 2017 in Events

Location: Toronto, Canada


The Centre for Global Child Health at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is recruiting exceptional post-doctoral research fellows in the area of fetal, childhood and adolescent growth and development (including stunting) in populations in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) or other vulnerable populations.

Fellowships will be full-time, based at SickKids’ Research Institute and the Centre for Global Child Health, for a duration that is flexible (one to three years).

Applications are being accepted from candidates who meet the following criteria:

  1. Have completed* a doctoral graduate degree in epidemiology, biostatistics, nutritional sciences, or related discipline; AND,
  2. Have demonstrated exemplary recent scholarship (i.e., first author publications, conference presentations, and/or successful grant applications) within one or more of the following areas of focus: epidemiology, biostatistics, human nutrition or reproductive, maternal, neonatal, child, and adolescent health (RMNCAH), or related discipline.

Questions can be directed to the Childhood and Adolescent Growth and Development Fellowship Program Committee at: childgrowth.fellowship@sickkids.ca

More information can be found at the SickKids website.