Postdoctoral Fellow, Vietnam Health and Aging Study
Posted: 4/15/2019 (Employment)
Description. The NIH-funded project entitled The Vietnam Health and Aging Study (VHAS) at the University of Utah (PI, Dr. Kim Korinek, Sociology) is currently recruiting a
postdoctoral fellow with expertise in health and aging research. The VHAS main foci are the collection and analysis of extensive survey, anthropometric and biomarker data in a
cohort of war survivors in order to disentangle lingering effects of exposure to the Vietnam War on old-age health and mortality. The project aims are to identify the specific life course
exposures to wartime stressors and pathways of influence into late adulthood health and wellbeing. The project also documents late life social and family relationships, migration in
the life course, and material conditions as they are linked to military service and war exposures in early-mid adulthood. The postdoctoral position is for one year. It is renewable
for a second and possibly third year contingent on excellent job performance and continued funding.
Location: Department of Sociology, University of Utah