Campus

OSU-Center for Health Sciences

Contact Name & Email

Jamie Childers, Jamie.Childers@okstate.edu

Work Schedule

Typically, Monday - Friday, 8 hour shifts

Appointment Length

Regular Continuous/Until Further Notice

Hiring Range

$ - $

Salary

Special Instructions to Applicants

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

About this Position

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.

Required Qualifications

• Ph.D./Ed.D.
  • PhD in Public Health, Clinical Psychology, Health Psychology, or a related discipline
  (degree must be conferred on or before agreed upon start date)
  
  
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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