Undergraduate Vacation Studentships

Gain real-world experience in digital health as a university student.

Two women and three men, all aged in their 20s, stand in front of a white wall. — Last summer, the AEHRC welcomed 14 university students from around Australia. From L to R: Morgan Gilbert, Zach Taylor, Gabriel Russell, Jenna Supper and Charan Musuwadi.

CSIRO’s 12-week summer vacation program offers eligible undergraduate students the chance to work on a science or technology-related project alongside some of Australia’s brightest minds.

The experience offers new skills, a network of collaborators, and plenty of fun along the way – just ask past AEHRC vacation students Morgan, who completed a science communication project and Jenna, who worked with the Biomedical Informatics team to generate medical images using artificial intelligence techniques.

Our projects

At the Australian e-Health Research Centre, we have over 20 exciting opportunities in 2023 across a range of disciplines:

Use the power of large language models (LLMs) to generate treatment summaries for cancer doctors, investigate the role of ChatGPT in providing health information, map data encoded in non-English systems to English-based systems, or transform data for use in analytic and machine learning tasks.
Develop a machine learning model to detect human presence from sensor data, work on diffusion models to synthesise medical images, train models to detect cognitive decline, improve the performance of machine learning driven clinical support algorithms, or implement and evaluate neural network models.
Use writing, communications and marketing skills to communicate digital health to industry, clinicians and the Australian public.
Discover the world of health economics and implementation science by investigating virtual care projects in the aged care space.
Work with the Digital Solutions for Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) team to review current AMR minimisation strategies, develop AI/ML models to predict AMR risk, or investigate interrelationships and feedback between drivers of AMR.
Map neonatal brain development and structure to gain insight into neurodevelopment and methods of studying the brain.
Use bioinformatics, data science, and software engineering techniques to investigate epistatic interactions between genes, explore DNA methylation, or evaluate phylogenetic methods to track pathogen evolution.
Work with the Digital Therapeutics and Care team to test the performance of a tech platform supporting older Australians, develop a mobile health app to monitor chronic health conditions, or investigate systems assisting cancer patients.
Use software engineering skills to build a Smart-on-FHIR app to visualise antimicrobial resistance data, improve a website showcasing bioinformatics software, or test and validate a neurosurgical tool.

Visit the CSIRO Vacation Studentship page to check your eligibility and find out more about the program. Applications close Monday 7 August.

The Australian e-Health Research Centre (AEHRC) is CSIRO's digital health research program and a joint venture between CSIRO and the Queensland Government. The AEHRC works with state and federal health agencies, clinical research groups and health businesses around Australia.