Phd Scholarship – Core Outcome Sets (Cos) For Preconception Care And Contraceptive Choice And Uptake

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Job description

PhD Scholarship – Core Outcome Sets (COS) for preconception care and contraceptive choice and uptake

Drive your own learning at one of the world’s top 80 universities

Take your career in exciting, rewarding directions

About the project

Core outcome sets (COS) are a standardised group of outcomes that should be measured and reported on in clinical trials. They decrease heterogeneity among clinical trials, improve systematic review and guideline quality, drive the development of national data registries, help set standards for health care and help measure the impact of future policies. COS already exist for abortion research, but not for preconception care and contraception research.

This PhD project will involve the development of COS for preconception care and contraceptive choice and uptake. The outcomes reported in quantitative and qualitative systematic reviews of studies will be analysed and a Delphi method involving key stakeholders will be utilised to rate outcome measures that are considered important before finalisation through a series of consensus development meetings. The COS can then be used by researchers in the reporting process in future trials that are focused on preconception care and contraception.

SPHERE and Monash University

The successful candidate will be part of a multidisciplinary cohort of researchers and students based at the SPHERE NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health in Primary Care. SPHERE’s focus is on improving access to and the quality of women’s sexual and reproductive health care services particularly in the areas of preconception care, contraception, medical abortion services and endometriosis and pelvic pain diagnosis and management in primary care.

SPHERE is located at the Department of General Practice at the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine and is part of the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences (MNHS) at Monash University.

Monash University is a member of Australia’s Group of Eight coalition, and is internationally recognized for excellence in research and teaching as one of the world's top 80 universities. Embedded in an ecosystem of health, academia and industry, it delivers the research outcomes, skilled workforce, technology and partnerships to improve human health locally and globally.

Professor Mazza is the Head of the Department of General Practice at Monash University and a nationally and internationally recognised leader in implementation research and knowledge translation in the general practice setting. She has made significant, sustained and ongoing contributions to advance general practice and primary health care in Australia in the field of women’s sexual and reproductive health and as a proponent of evidence-based quality improvement through guideline development and implementation.

Application Requirements :

• A cover letter describing your research interests and why you would like to undertake a PhD (maximum one page)
• A CV including qualifications, academic achievements, list of publications, work history and references

Applications Close : Tuesday 18 March 2025, 11 : 55pm AEDT

Monash University recognises that its Australian campuses are located on the unceded lands of the people of the Kulin nations, and pays its respects to their elders, past and present.