Background
The Utrecht Centre for Pharmaceutical Policy and Regulation offers an international high quality PhD-programme for professionals with several years of relevant work experience. The unique format of the programme combines academic research and public health practice requiring candidates to use their work experience, data and policy issues as input for their PhD-thesis. The Utrecht Centre is a leading platform for independent multidisciplinary research which links drug regulation, pharmacoepidemiology, public health and policy analysis.
The Centre is based at the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Clinical Pharmacology of Utrecht University in the Netherlands, an internationally acclaimed research institute, and works closely with many well-known international partners such as the World Health Organization and the European Medicines Agency as well as with national partners such as the Dutch Medicines Evaluation Board and the National Health Care Institute.
Research Themes
The work of the Centre concentrates on the design and evaluation of pharmaceutical policies with a focus on Global Health, Drug Regulatory Science (e.g. drug approval) and health technology assessment (e.g. drug access, pricing and reimbursement).
More information
Please read the flyer to learn more about the programme, what we offer and what type of candidates we are looking for: PhD programme professionals 2021_final
Application
At the moment the application is closed. To be informed about the next application deadline, please send an e-mail to Dr. Rianne van den Ham, h.a.vandenham@uu.nl, and you will be put on the contact list.