Introduction

Building on strong links between Edinburgh and Leiden

The Joint Edinburgh-Leiden Doctoral Training Programme in Integrated One Health Solutions to Infectious Diseases has been developed as part of the University’s commitment to build a network of European and Global partnerships.

University of Edinburgh Global Partnerships

Una Europa and Edinburgh

Leiden University Medical Centre

The PhD programme is fostering collaboration, building on a long record of collaborative research and teaching between Edinburgh and Leiden, in particular in the fields of medicine and infectious diseases. 

Programme development

At the end of 2019 Edinburgh Infectious Diseases was pleased to announce a strategic partnership between the Universities of Leiden and Edinburgh to offer eight PhD studentships fully funded for four years focused on Integrated One Health Solutions.  A further round of recruitment was completed at the end of 2020.

Each University has funded four studentships in areas where significant joint interest and expertise were identified.  

Students are registered for their degree at one or other host institution, and all projects involve at least one supervisor from each organisation.  Students undertake research exchanges between Leiden and Edinburgh during the projects, with students spending time in each institution. 

This is an exciting programme which it is hoped can fuel further collaboration in common areas of interest between the two institutions.

Information about investigators from Leiden and Edinburgh with interests aligned with ‘One Health’ is given below.  

Investigators