The PhD position is embedded in a sandwich program jointly carried out between National University of Rwanda and the Centre for Geoinformatics, University of Salzburg, Austria. The  PhD  position  is  linked  to  the  EU  FP7-funded  research  project  HEALTHY  FUTURES.    

HEALTHY  FUTURES  is  motivated  by  concern  for  the  health  impacts  of environmental changes. HEALTHY FUTURES aims to respond to this concern through construction of a disease risk mapping system for three water-related, high-impact vector-borne diseases (malaria, Rift Valley fever and schistosomiasis)  in  Africa,  taking  into  account  environmental/climatic  trends  and  changes  in  socio-economic conditions to predict future risk.

Application deadline: August 15th, 2011

Further details: Visit www.healthyfutures.eu or contact Dr. Theophile Niyonzima (tniyonzima@nur.ac.rw )