Cover Letter 2 [Invited for Interview]
Dear Prof. Christina Dalman,
When I read about the Karolinska Institutet vacancy for a Doctoral (PhD) student position in Public Health Epidemiology, I was very excited. I am a well-qualified psychosocial and clinical epidemiologist who would be an excellent candidate for this PhD position.
I have a research master degree in Clinical and Psychosocial Epidemiology, the top research master degree programme in the Faculty of Medical Science, University of Groningen, Netherlands. My master project focused on investigating the psychosocial, clinical and demographic risk factors of physical morbidities in patients with non-affective psychosis. This project is embedded within the Genetic Risk and Outcome of Psychosis (GROUP) project, a large prospective Dutch and Belgian cohort study. During my internship, I have learned plenty of skills on big cohort data management, sophisticated data analysis, and project writing. I have also a research master degree in Adult Health Nursing which helps me to acquaint clinical knowledge and skill. Moreover, I have more than 15 publications on psychiatric disorders and related topics which you may find here <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=mW4v4kwAAAAJ&hl=en> or < http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4476-518X> . I am interested in Psychiatric Epidemiology research.
Given the high burden of mental illness, children with parental mental illness have poor health and social outcomes. One of my utmost long-term goals is to pursue a successful academic career in psychiatric/public health epidemiologic research. Therefore, this Ph.D. program is the golden opportunity to conduct demand-based research and develop novel personalized preventive and therapeutic models for patients care.
If you should have any further questions, please feel free to contact me. I look forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience regarding this application.
For further information, find my curriculum vitae attached together with this application.
Sincerely yours,
Tesfa Habtewold (BSc, MSc, CPE ReMa)
[email protected]
0630710580
