Postdoctoral Opportunities

The Project DZC at Population Studies Center (PSC), University of Pennsylvania, is seeking to fill one full-time Postdoctoral Scholar position to work on the NICHD-funded project "Reproductive and Child Health Trajectories in Successive Novel Infectious Disease Crises." This longitudinal study examines the consequences of back-to-back public health crises for women and children in Brazil. The postdoctoral scholar will join an interdisciplinary team led by Dr. Letícia Marteleto and will contribute to ongoing and upcoming waves of DZC survey data on successive public health crises and reproductive health, and fertility in Brazil. The appointment is for one year, with the expectation of renewal for a second year based on performance. Applications will be accepted via interfolio platform (https://apply.interfolio.com/176896) and reviewed on a rolling basis beginning in January 2026.
Yale’s Institute for Foundations of Data Science (FDS) is seeking applications for postdoctoral positions in Data Science. These will be generously supported postdoctoral positions, expected to last 2-3 years, for independent scholars working on the foundations of data science. FDS postdocs can select multiple mentors from among the members of the institute, and can change their mentors during their fellowship. This is an opportunity to work with leading theorists as well as domain scientists who are eager to collaborate. A list of the members may be found on our web page, fds.yale.edu. Yale’s Data Science Initiative has supported the rapid growth of the departments of Statistics & Data Science and Computer Science, as well as many interdisciplinary activities in which the postdocs could participate. FDS launched in October of 2022 and moved into a newly renovated Kline Tower in the summer of 2023 along with the departments of Statistics & Data Science, Mathematics, and Astronomy. The institute was created to advance research in the mathematical, algorithmic, and statistical foundations of data science and their application to other disciplines. In addition to providing support to core foundational research, the institute hosts activities to help scholars across the university apply new methods of data science to their research. In turn, those scholars help us discover their unmet needs and thereby inspire the development of new methods and theories.
The Minnesota Population Center seeks a postdoctoral candidate for our Population Health Training Program at the University of Minnesota. We train scientists to understand complex health problems and health disparities as resulting from multiple interacting layers of influence that unfold over chronological, biological, and historical time. This exciting program housed in the Institute for Social Research and Data Innovation and the Minnesota Population Center, features cross-training in the biology and etiology of disease as well as in the social sciences. The program includes engagement in independent and collaborative population health research, supervised by interdisciplinary teams of faculty, and intensive professional socialization. It is designed to integrate trainees from diverse disciplinary backgrounds and prepare them to pursue outstanding careers as population health scientists. Review of applications will begin Feb 1.
The National Institute on Aging (NIA), Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, located in Baltimore, MD, is recruiting a postdoctoral fellow to join the research group of Minkyo Song, M.D., Ph.D., Tenure-Track Investigator in the Immunoepidemiology Unit (https://irp.nih.gov/pi/minkyo-song). The group studies autoimmunity and aging, focusing on the etiologic role of autoimmune diseases in aging and age-related diseases. This position offers opportunities to explore multiple approaches to defining autoimmunity, including ICD codes, claims information (e.g., diagnosis and treatment), and biomarkers (e.g., autoantibodies), and to investigate their associations with aging-related phenotypes and diseases. The research group uses a broad range of study designs and analytic approaches, including longitudinal cohort studies, pharmacoepidemiologic methods, and immunoproteomics analyses. The fellow will lead or co-lead national and international collaborative projects, design and implement analytical strategies for longitudinal and high-dimensional data, and work closely with multidisciplinary experts including biologists, clinicians, and statisticians. Opportunities to mentor postbaccalaureate and summer students will be available.
The Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (Kaiserslautern and Saarbruecken), the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (Bochum), The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (Rostock), and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law (Freiburg) are jointly recruiting up to 8 highly qualified Post-Docs interested in Computational Social Science. This application call is targeted to the broad topic of artificial intelligence, computing, and society.
Duke University is hiring a Postdoctoral Associate to work on an NIH R01-funded study related to dementia caregiving in Asia. For application information, go to https://careers.duke.edu/job-invite/266763/.
An NIH-funded postdoctoral research associate position is available immediately at the University of Utah to conduct research on how place-based features influence mortality risk among the working-age population, especially due to cardiometabolic disease as well as drug, suicide, and alcohol-related conditions. The project draws on two unique datasets that have been linked with multidimensional area- and place-based data. First, the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) study includes three waves of rich psychosocial and health assessments from 1995 through 2014 and more than twenty years of mortality follow-up. Second, the Utah Population Database (UPDB) includes Utah death records, covering the period of 2000 through 2023, linked within families and to an extensive set of state administrative and health records. While MIDUS provides national scope and breadth of psychosocial processes, UPDB will allow for the examination of rich place-based measures with a large sample of working-age Utahans (n = ~1 million adults; 188,402 deaths observed), modeling spatial processes, and considering family risk factors.
Postdoc (f/m/x) - Health and Longevity: The research group Health and Longevity - headed by Marc Luy - investigates trends and differentials in morbidity and mortality. In particular, we aim to better understand the causal mechanisms that enable some individuals to live longer and healthier lives than others. We are looking for a candidate who will work largely independently on (sub)projects within the research group, present their work and findings at international conferences, and publish in leading peer-reviewed journals. They will also supervise student assistants and PhD students, support the research group leader in coordinating research activities within the team, and contribute to grant applications and the acquisition of third-party funding. Deadline: 31 May 2026.
The Pepper Institute on Aging and Public Policy at Florida State University is recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow for a one-year position (renewable for up to 3 years) beginning August 2026. The Pepper Institute brings together faculty and students from a range of social science, public policy, and health disciplines to examine how social factors, structures, and public policies shape health and well-being in aging societies (https://pepperinstitute.fsu.edu/about-us). The Fellow will work with Dr. Patricia Homan (PI) on an NICHD funded project focused on examining how state-level social and policy environments shape maternal and infant health outcomes in the United States. The Fellow’s primary responsibility will be the compilation, cleaning, harmonization, and coding of state-level indicators across multiple public data sources to construct a rigorous state-by-year index spanning economic, educational, political, cultural, and health policy domains. This work will culminate in a publicly available dataset with documentation and replication code, providing a lasting resource for the field. Additional responsibilities include contributing to analyses and publications using fixed-effects panel models, multilevel models, and structural equation modeling to examine how changes in U.S. state contexts relate to maternal and infant health outcomes over the past two decades.
The core mission of the Center for Race, Inequality and Social Equity Studies (CRISES) is the scholarly analysis of contemporary ethno-racial inequality, especially as articulated with class-based and gendered social conditions, through rigorous methodologies, theory-driven insights, and empirically grounded research. The social scientific research conducted by CRISES will inform the vision and attainment of a world without invidious social distinctions that are rooted in historical, institutional, and systemic ethno-racial, gender, and economic inequality. Through its research, collaborations across FAS and Harvard, and convenings of scholars, activists and students, CRISES envisions collective healing and a genuinely democratic society. We are accepting applications for a one-year postdoctoral position (start date between June 1 and September 1, 2026) to study contemporary ethno-racial inequality, diversity, and democracy in America. The Postdoc will spend approximately 50% of their time working with an established research team on core CRISES projects. The primary project at CRISES involves designing, implementing, and analyzing nationally representative surveys that assess attitudinal and behavioral support for achieving a genuine democracy for all ethno-racial identities and backgrounds in the U.S.
The Social Policies for Health Equity Research (SPHERE) Center at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) seeks a postdoctoral fellow to conduct NIH-funded research on the effects of pandemic-era social and economic policies on health inequities. The COVID-19 pandemic prompted rapid and innovative policymaking around the world at the national, regional, and local levels. The postdoctoral fellow will link pandemic-era social and public health policies with national health data sets that provide individual-level information on mental health and healthcare utilization to assess how these pandemic-era policies affected these outcomes, particularly health inequities. The fellow will be expected to conduct statistical analysis using state-of-the-art quasi-experimental techniques, publish first-authored manuscripts on projects aligned with the primary research topic, present findings at national conferences, and prepare grant applications to establish research independence. They will benefit from a strong mentorship team led by principal investigator Dr. Rita Hamad, Professor of Social Epidemiology and Public Policy at HSPH and Director of the SPHERE Center and the Harvard Population Center for Population and Development Studies.

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