Doctoral network

Applications for 2012-2013 are now open!

Deadline for application for the doctoral network: 31 December 2012
Deadline for application for a doctoral contract: 30 April 2012

Interdisciplinary health professional doctorate

The public health doctoral network, run by the EHESP, was accredited at the end of 2008. It leans upon doctoral schools of 10 establishments, covering complementary domains (public health, law, epidemiology, social sciences, management, etc). The doctoral network allows students registered at the EHESP and at a partner doctoral school to prepare a doctoral work dealing with different aspects of public health:

hospital management, social and welfare action and health policies
information sciences and biostatistics
epidemiology
environment and occupational health
human, social and behavioral sciences

The EHESP’s Doctoral network gives the opportunity to its students to attend interdisciplinary seminars and conferences and encourages them to undertake internships in a foreign research department. The Doctoral network can supply financial support for travel and assistance.

Each year, the EHESP’s Doctoral network provides doctoral contracts allowing selected students to obtain a 3 years funding to prepare their thesis.

Partners

The doctoral network of EHESP leans upon doctoral schools of 10 establishments. It allows doctoral students to obtain a doctoral degree issued by both EHESP and the partner university. The doctoral network allows students registered at the EHESP and at a partner doctoral school to produce multidisciplinary theses on different aspects of public health. The partners currently involved in the setting up of this doctoral network are:

Rennes 1 University (ED 505: Sciences of man, organisations and society ; and ED 92: life, agro and health),
UPMC (ED 393: Public health: epidemiology and biomedical information sciences)
Paris-sud 11 University (ED 420: Public health),
Paris Descartes University (ED 262: Law, management, international relations),
HEC (ED 471: Organisation and decision),
EHESS (ED 286 of the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences),
Henri Poincaré Nancy 1 University (ED 266: Biology, health and environment),
Victor Ségalen Bordeaux 2 University (ED SP2: Society, Politic, Public health),
University of Méditerranée (ED 062: Life and health sciences).

Application

Applications for the Doctoral Network and for Doctoral contracts are open, fill in the application form!

Deadline for application for the doctoral network: 31 December 2012
Deadline for application for a doctoral contract: 30 April 2012

Application to the Doctoral network is open to

all students holding a Master’s degree or equivalent,
professionals wishing to pursue a thesis concurrently with their professional activity,
professionals and students from all around the world.

To be admitted, candidates should demonstrate

academic results and excellent knowledge in at least one discipline required for the thesis,
demonstrated interest and skills in public health issues or research,
the quality of thesis research project.

In order to facilitate exchanges with peers and lecturers, students must have a very good command of English (and French understanding).

Successful applicants must also, at the inception of the academic year, be registered in one of the partner Doctoral school. This enrolment will confirm their admission to the Doctoral network.

Courses in brief

The doctoral programme requires students

to obtain 30 ECTS (public health care course),
to achieve a satisfactory standard during the doctoral course,
to defend their doctoral work (thesis)

These conditions, in addition to the criteria of the doctoral school to which students are attached, include, inter alia, courses encouraging interdisciplinarity, residential seminars (on specific themes and interdisciplinary) with well-known researchers, conferences and international courses or summer schools. A very good command of English is required to facilitate discussion with foreign students and speakers. Students will be encouraged by the doctoral network to spend several months in a foreign laboratory during their course. The doctoral network has links with an international network of partner establishments, through EHESP partners (Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, the London School of Economics and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), and the European ASPHER network.

Download the training programme for 2011-2012 (pdf, 72 kb)

Programme

Doctoral studies include

high level training course in Public Health (30 credits),
research project,
close supervision of doctoral work,
international stay recommended,
preparation and defence of the doctoral thesis.

These conditions are in addition to the criteria of the doctoral school to which students are attached.

Courses in Public Health include courses encouraging interdisciplinarity, residential seminars (on specific themes and interdisciplinary) conferences and international courses or summer schools.

These courses are proposed by EHESP and the partner doctoral schools, and take place in Rennes, Paris, Marseille, Bordeaux or Nancy.

During the thesis, the doctoral student must complete at least

one course in five of the six fields in Public Health (15 credits),
one course in two of the six fields in Public Health (6 credits).

Doctoral students can also attend courses in methodology and interdisciplinary seminars.

Students will be encouraged by the Doctoral network to spend several months in a foreign laboratory during the thesis. The Doctoral network has links with an international network of partner establishments, through EHESP partners (Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, the London School of Economics and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), and the European ASPHER network.

Research project

The rules of the doctoral school where the student is registered apply to the whole of the doctorate.

The thesis must be made in three years or in six years for professionals making their thesis on half-time.

The thesis can be written in French or in English. If it is written in English, a detailed abstract in French will be required and a detailed abstract in English will be required if the thesis is written in French.

The choice of the subject of the thesis and the thesis supervisor.

The Doctoral network can help the applicants by guiding and supporting them.

If the doctoral student wishes to research a particular subject and does not have a supervisor, he should contact the partner doctoral schools or potential supervisors to find a thesis supervisor.

If the doctoral student does not have a thesis subject, he should contact the partner doctoral schools or potential supervisors to apply to their proposed subjects. He can also visit websites that proposed thesis subjects, like the web site of Bernard Gregory association.

The thesis supervisor must hold an habilitation to direct researchs (HDR) and be attached to one of the partner Doctoral schools.

Funding of the thesis

When applying for registration, the candidate can be candidate for a doctoral contract.

The selection is made after the presentation of the doctoral project in front of a jury.

The doctoral contract is a three years contract, defined by ministerial decree. It can include or not other activities than research on the doctoral thesis (teaching, scientific information spreading, valorisation of the research results).
The amount was in 2009, 1 663 € or 1 998 € (gross per month), depending on the doctoral student activity.
Visit the website of Legifrance for more information on the doctoral contract.

Funding Offers

In addition, information on possible funding of thesis are available on the following websites : ANDES (French association of doctors) and Campus France.

Foreign students

If you are a foreign student see the information about international exchanges. You can also download the list of scholarships listed according to the applicant’s country of origin (the information on this file is only given as an example, and we cannot guarantee that you will obtain funding thanks to the information given).

Eiffel scholarships 2012-2013 are also available. More information : http://www.egide.asso.fr/eiffel

Contacts

doctorate@ehesp.fr
Tel : +33 (0) 2 99 02 25 19 ou +33 (0) 2 99 02 26 48

Applications for 2012-2013 are now open!