Post Doctoral Fellowship - Rural Health

Campus

OSU-Center for Health Sciences

Jamie Childers, Jamie.

Childers

Typically, Monday - Friday, 8 hour shifts

Regular Continuous/Until Further Notice

$ - $

Salary

Applicants should provide cover letter, curriculum vitae, list of three professional references, and published writing sample(s).

THIS IS A GRANT FUNDED POSITION

Postdoctoral fellow will support research on periconceptional and perinatal health behaviors, including substance-exposed pregnancies. This fellowship will be affiliated with the NIH-funded HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) study. The ideal candidate will have experience collecting data from diverse pools of human subjects, conducting data analysis, and writing manuscripts. The candidate will have opportunities to mentor graduate and undergraduate students and be well supported in manuscript writing and presentations at national conferences.

The fellow will also have support and opportunities for mentored grantsmanship (e.g., K-series applications) if interested.

Postdoctoral fellow will assist with the following duties: a) manuscript preparation from existing datasets; b) recruiting and retaining study participants in a longitudinal trial; c) data collection activities with pregnant people; d) data collection activities with infants and young children; and e) data analysis. The fellow will have opportunities to coauthor multiple scientific articles from existing primary datasets and write federal grants leveraging the resources and interdisciplinary connections across Public Health, Psychiatry, Psychology, Neuroscience, Family Medicine, and Human Development and Family Science, among other departments.

• Ph.D./Ed.D. (degree must be conferred on or before agreed upon start date)
  • PhD in Public Health, Clinical Psychology, Health Psychology, or a related discipline
• Certifications, Registrations, and/or Licenses:
• Skills, Proficiencies, and/or Knowledge:
  • Must have good scientific writing skills with a solid publication record, clinical research experience, and strong quantitative data analytic skills

• Experience working in the field of perinatal health and substance exposed pregnancy, and/or previous study coordination experience on Federally-funded studies
• Certifications, Registrations, and/or Licenses:
• Skills, Proficiencies, and/or Knowledge:
  • Bilingual in Spanish