Postdoctoral Opportunities

The Population Research Institute at Penn State anticipates openings for two T32 Postdoctoral Scholars, one NICHD-funded trainee in Social Environments and Population Health, and another NIA-funded trainee in Emerging Disparities in Population Health. Owing to sponsor requirements, applicants must be U.S. Citizens or Permanent Residents. Screening of applications will begin on February 17, 2025 and continue until the position is filled.
Postdoctoral position in behavioral economics and global health (UPENN) - The Behavioral Economics and Global Health Insights (BEGIN) Lab at the University of Pennsylvania is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow who can support ongoing research projects and conduct original research on a wide range of topics in global health. Co-directed by Professors Alison Buttenheim & Harsha Thirumurthy, the mission of the BEGIN Lab is to seek innovative solutions to persistent challenges that limit healthy lifespans globally. Supported by grants from the US National Institutes of Health and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the BEGIN Lab’s projects take place in the Global South.
Social and Behavioral Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowships - The Social and Behavioral Sciences Branch (SBSB) within NICHD’s Division of Population Health Research is inviting applications for postdoctoral fellows to join collaborative, multi-disciplinary teams and develop their own projects within the scope of ongoing research in the Branch. SBSB research addresses multiple aspects of health, health-related behaviors, and health equity throughout the life course by investigating novel social, behavioral, and environmental determinants of health in population-based observational and experimental studies.
NIH T90/R90 Postdoctoral Training Program - The University of Michigan Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center (CPFRC) has openings through its NIH Pain HEAL T90/R90 training program. The CPFRC's portfolio of research spans the translational spectrum from mechanistic research to clinical trials and community engagement with a focus on equity. We are interested in applicants looking for an independent research career in pain science. Fellows are expected to write their own career development award (K award) with support of the program. See the attached document to learn more, including eligibility criteria and contact information.
Hiring for the UMN Rural Health Equity Postdoctoral Program - Opening for Rural Health Equity Postdoctoral Program at the University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center! The primary goal of this program is to train scholars who will become innovative research leaders in rural health. The postdoc will receive mentorship and support from the RHRC leadership and staff and closely collaborate on projects. Application deadline 3/21/25.
The Department of Population Health and Disease Prevention at the University of California, Irvine, invites applications for a postdoctoral researcher position in HIV behavioral and social network epidemiology. The researcher will be asked to contribute to the analyses of data collected as part of the ANCHOR (Analysis of network composition, health outcomes, and resilience) project that examines HIV risks and other health outcomes in displaced queer populations in Ukraine. The researcher will work closely with Dr. Tetyana Vasylyeva (PI, UC Irvine) and Dr. Britt Skaathun (co-I, UC San Diego), and the rest of the study team.
The Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology at Auburn University is accepting applications for a postdoctoral fellowship. The anticipated start date will be May 2025 for an initial period of 14 months with a possibility of extension to one or more years, depending on performance and funding availability. This is a benefit-eligible, non-tenure track position. We seek an enthusiastic and motivated postdoctoral fellow/research associate to conduct innovative social science research at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology at Auburn University. The focus of the work will be conducting survey research on various issues, including but not limited to rural and farm quality of life and farm and business management decision-making, and working with existing data sets on agriculture, forestry, and rural industries regarding the challenges and opportunities for rural Alabama. The individual selected for this position will work directly with Dr. Russell (Auburn University) and Dr. Taylor (Auburn University) on USDA funded research.
The Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics (CED) is hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher in Family Demography to join the ERC-funded project, ‘SINGLE – Understanding the Demography and Stratification of Singlehood in Europe’ (PI: Dr. Ariane Ophir). This is a full-time position for three years, based at CED, just outside Barcelona. The postdoc will contribute to the Demography of Singlehood work packages and work alongside the PI to develop a novel conceptual and empirical framework to understand the demographic dynamics of singlehood (trends, patterns, drivers, etc.). This position is ideal for a family demographer with an interest in marriage and cohabitation dynamics who would like to expand their research into the demography of singlehood.
The Department of Anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University at Albany, is seeking applicants for a Promoting Recruitment, Opportunity, Diversity, Inclusion and Growth plus (PRODiG+) Fellowship in Biological Anthropology or Human Biology. PRODiG+ is an initiative of SUNY system aiming to (1) increase the number and share of excellent diverse faculty committed to advancing the ideals of diversity, equity, and inclusion; and (2) strengthen the pipeline for retention and support of those faculty. This is a 12 month position that is expected to be two years in duration. Through the PRODiG+ program, SUNY expects to generate a pipeline of over 400 postdoctoral fellows to enter tenure-track faculty positions over the next 10 years. The area of research specialization should complement departmental strengths in Demography, Functional Morphology, Biomechanics, Comparative Biology, Primate Variation, Human Growth and Development, Health and Statistics. The Fellow will work with school faculty to advance their personal research portfolio with journal publications and presentations and national/international conferences.
The Demography and Health Group at Bielefeld University is seeking to appoint a full-time post-doctoral researcher to join the project "Linked Lives: Consequences of Long Commuting for the Health of All Family Members (COMFAM)" funded by the ERC Consolidator Grant. The project aims to understand whether long commuting—regularly recurring travel between home and work by a motorized private vehicle or public transportation—affects the health and well-being of all family members.
The Center for Coastal Futures & Adaptive Resilience (CFAR) at Rice University in Houston, TX, is offering a postdoctoral fellowship beginning this spring/summer of 2025. The fellowship is one year in length with the possibility of renewal for a second year. Remote work is possible in special cases. Based in Rice’s School of Social Sciences, CFAR integrates the diverse methodological expertise of the social sciences to empower research on adaptive resilience broadly construed. We pursue this mission through research relevant to Houston, the Gulf region, and coastal areas worldwide. Current foci include Coastal Industrial Communities, Urban Infrastructure Futures, Climate Adaptation, and Disaster Recovery & Resilience. The successful candidate will conduct independent and collaborative research, manage research projects, engage community partners, and produce deliverables relevant to the ongoing development of the Center. This work will occur in conjunction and consultation with the Center’s faculty co-directors.
The Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania seeks to fill a postdoctoral fellowship position on an NIA-funded project investigating trends and determinants of US-born and foreign-born mortality. We seek a researcher with expertise in demographic and statistical modeling and mortality analyses. PhD in demography, sociology, economics, epidemiology, or closely related fields is preferred. The Fellow will work in close collaboration with Professors Irma Elo, Michel Guillot and Xi Song at Penn. The Fellow will also collaborate closely with Professor Neil Mehta and his colleagues at the University of Texas Medical Branch. The Fellow will benefit from a robust mentoring environment designed to provide expert training and support and to foster progress toward becoming an independently funded researcher.
The University of Oxford seeks a postdoctoral researcher role within the Digital Gender Gaps project, led by Professor Ridhi Kashyap, and embedded within the Department of Sociology and Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science at the University of Oxford. The postdoctoral researcher will advance scientific understanding and inform policy on the impacts of digital expansion on gender equality and women’s social and economic opportunities. The post holder will develop research using computational, statistical and social data science approaches to expand knowledge on gender inequalities in digital connectivity, as well as the impacts of digital gender inequalities on social, demographic, and economic domains in low and middle-income countries, with a particular focus on Africa and South Asia.
SMU DataArts, the National Center for Arts Research at Southern Methodist University, invites applications for a post-doctoral fellowship, to begin August 2025 for a 1-year term. This fellowship opportunity is for a researcher interested in leveraging data and research tools towards advancing gender studies in the field of arts and culture. The fellow should have a stated interest in the arts and culture sector; however, candidates with a wide range of degrees would be considered for this position, including economics, statistics, data science, public policy, museum studies, gender studies, etc. The fellow will contribute to a wide range of DataArts research projects with opportunities to grow their qualitative and/or quantitative analysis expertise, work directly with DataArts clients in a consultative capacity, and build skills managing complex research initiatives. The research team will provide thought partnership and support to the fellow in developing research questions focused on gender studies using data available through DataArts.
The parasitic infectious disease group of Dr. Joana C Silva, Professor at the Institute for Genome Sciences seeks applicants for one (possibly two) postdoctoral scholar positions. IGS at the University of Maryland, School of Medicine is an interdisciplinary, multi-departmental team of collaborative investigators with a broad research program related to the basic and translational sciences, genomics, epigenetics, and bioinformatics. The impact of the members of IGS on the genomics field has been substantial, with more than 2000 publications during the past 26 years, which have been cited more than 300,000 times, making IGS one of the most productive institutions in the region.
The University of Idaho’s School of Health & Medical Professions (SHAMP), Idaho Office of Underserved and Rural Medical Research (IOURMR) is seeking 1 postdoctoral fellow to join a dynamic Research and Evaluation team. This team engages in ambitious, multi-year, multi-site research to improve the health of Idaho’s underserved and rural communities through the purposeful integration of medical education, research, and service to advance clinical practice and patient care in Idaho.
Applications are invited for a 3-year Research Fellow position in Population Data Science at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The post-holder will work in the recently established Mortality and Inequalities Research Group and work closely with Associate Professor José Manuel Aburto and the Population Studies Group at LSHTM. The successful applicant will be able to develop research questions within Statistics, Population Data Science, Computational Social Science, Demographic Science or a related field. Candidates should be able analyse detailed and complex qualitative and/or quantitative data from a variety of sources, and generate original ideas by building on existing concepts. The successful candidate will aid with the design, development, and maintenance of the research group’s computing infrastructure for data and code, establishing and documenting workflows for open science, and online dashboards.

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