The University of Utah Center for Health Outcomes and Population Equity (Center for HOPE) is accepting applications for Postdoctoral Fellowships in Health Inequities (2-3 year appointments). Foci include health inequities, behavioral risk factors, and use of state of the science mobile health technologies for both assessment and intervention. Special populations of interest include Latinos, American Indians/Alaska Natives, African Americans, LGBTQ+, low socioeconomic status individuals, and rural populations. Fellows will have the opportunity to participate in several NIH-funded intervention, mechanism, and dissemination/implementation studies. Treatment approaches include smartphone apps, motivational enhancement therapies, mindfulness meditation, and cognitive behavioral interventions. Assessment approaches include on-body human sensing technologies and ecological momentary assessments. In addition to participation in numerous local projects, Fellows have the opportunity to participate in MD2K (md2k.org), a NIH-funded Big Data to Knowledge Center of Excellence that is focused on mobile health and on-body human sensing technologies.

The program is designed to prepare Fellows for independent academic research careers. Fellows will have numerous publication and grant-writing opportunities, and will share in authorship and investigator status in a manner commensurate with their effort and responsibilities. For interested candidates, there are outstanding opportunities for developing quantitative analysis and statistical expertise via workshops, courses, and with our collaborators across campus. Salary is extremely competitive with excellent fringe benefits.

The Center for HOPE provides unusually rich opportunities in community-based and clinical research. Fellows will be mentored by Drs. David Wetter and Cho Lam. The mentoring team has an exceptional track record of helping fellows obtain independent funding as principal investigators of NIH funded K and R01 awards.

Qualifications include a doctoral degree in psychology, public health, or other relevant social or population science. Applications will be reviewed as they are received. Applicants from underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to apply.

Applicants should submit their application at https://employment.utah.edu/salt-lake-city-ut/post-doc-res-assoc-wret/845DDDC2BF3946528A81B8B7216C49FE/job/. Applicants should include the following in their application:

1. Cover letter describing their research interests in health inequities and their research experience;
2. Curriculum Vitae

2018 Call for Submissions Information

Between 1900 and 2000, the world’s population increased from 1.5 to 6.1 billion people.
In just 100 years, the world’s population has grown three times larger than the entire previous history of humanity. As a result, unprecedented demands are being placed on infrastructure, with mounting risks to public health, safety, and livelihood.
Are you concerned about how the world’s population is changing and where we’ll be in the next three decades? If so, you’re not alone. Fortunately with this increase in population size comes a larger community of global residents who can collectively PRESS ON to discover new technologies, innovations and ideas capable of solving this massive challenge to the human race.

Program:
5:30 – Doors Open
5:30-6:15 – Networking
6:15-7:45 – Presentations
7:45-8:30 – Q&A

Our esteemed Guest Speakers include Rusty Rodriguez of Symbiogenics and Sara Curran of University of Washington. The discussion will be moderated by Heather Lewis of Rover.com.

Abstract: As medical care costs have increasingly shifted to patients, patients face unanticipated out of pocket costs that place them at risk for financial hardship and poor health outcomes. Timely access to costs of care can help patients with treatment and expense planning, facilitate connections to financial assistance resources, and is an important part of patient-centered care. Many studies suggest that patients want their health care teams to communicate with them about health care costs. However, initiatives to help patients understand and manage out of pocket costs requires clinicians, teams, patients, and health plan staff to interact with each other and with technology in new ways, and best practices for embedding cost and value information into existing clinical workflows remain unresolved. This presentation will discuss an ongoing research portfolio seeking solutions for meeting our patients’ needs.

Dr. Nora Henrikson is a Research Associate at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, in Seattle. She is also an Affiliate Assistant Professor in the department of Health Services in the School of Public Health, at the University of Washington.  She completed a PhD in Public Health at the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, at the University of Washington. Dr. Henrikson holds a Master of Public Health from the University of North Carolina. At Kaiser Permanente Research Institute, she carries out multiple projects that, in broad terms, examine people’s experiences with and perceptions of health policies that affect them and their families when seeking health services. In a recent project, she studies ways to improve price transparency for Kaiser Permanente Washington members and their clinicians in cancer care, and how to facilitate conversations about the costs of health services. Dr. Henrikson’s work has appeared in Genetic Medicine, Journal of the National Cancer Institute, and Journal of Oncology Practice, among other journals and edited volumes.

Next speaker: 6 December– James Pfeiffer, University of Washington

For more information about the lecture series, please contact coordinator Marieke van Eijk (mariev2@uw.edu)

The Institute of Behavioral Science and the Institute for Behavioral Genetics recently received a T32 training grant from NIA to train pre and post-doctoral candidates in Demography and Genetics (T32AG052371). The Institute is currently searching for two post-doctoral positions that will begin early or late Summer, 2018. These candidates will work with faculty in the IBS/IBG training program at the intersection of demographic and genetic research and will train in methods and substance in both areas. Each position is for a two-year period at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Candidates will be expected to participate in weekly research meetings, participate in graduate level training in demography and statistical genetics, attend and present at the annual meetings of the Population Association of America and the Behavior Genetics Association, and contribute to new and ongoing projects one or both research institutes. Candidates must have received, as of the beginning date of the appointment, a PhD, MD or comparable doctoral degree from an accredited domestic or foreign institution. Documentation by an authorized official of the degree-granting institution certifying all degree requirements have been met prior to the beginning date of training is acceptable. The University of Colorado is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, race, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or status as a protected veteran.

Please submit the following to Jessica LaRue (Jessica.LaRue@Colorado.EDU) as one complete .pdf file with your last name_first name.pdf as the name of the document (e.g., boardman_jason.pdf) :

1. Cover letter: please provide a brief description of your research interests and training in genetics or demography or both.
2. List of references (name and email is sufficient).
3. CV

Review of materials will begin at the end of January, 2018 but applicants are encouraged to submit their materials as soon as possible.

The Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB) in Wiesbaden, Germany, has two vacancies:

1) Research Director on Demographic Change & Ageing (full-time, salary scale A/E14):

We are seeking an internationally renowned scientist with an excellent track record in the field of demographic change and ageing/mortality.

The successful candidate should have an excellent publication record, experience in policy advice and the acquisition of third-party funding, as well as experience with the management of a research group.

The position requires a Masters and PhD degree as well as German language skills at native speaker level.

Deadline for applications: 30 November 2017. 

See job offer 309/17 (https://goo.gl/dSmBdk) for details. Applications must be sent to the BiB recruiting office via email.

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2) Post-doctoral research fellow on demographic change (full-time for 4 years, salary scale 14 TVöD):

We are seeking an experienced scientist with an international publication record in the field of demographic change to work within the Institute’s research theme “Demographic Change, Ageing and World Population (FB 3)”. The position requires a Master’s degree, a PhD is desirable.

Deadline for applications: 23 November 2017. 

See job offer 311/17 (https://goo.gl/ffYDbC) for details. Applications must be sent to the BiB recruiting office via email.