Post-doctoral Fellowship at the Urban Health Institute

The Johns Hopkins University Urban Health Institute (UHI), a university-wide
center committed to improving the health and well-being of the residents of
East Baltimore, is proud to announce two new post-doctoral fellowships for
research training in urban health research. These post-docs are available
from August 2003 and may be either one- or two-years in duration.

Candidates must have completed a recent PhD, DrPH or MD degree in any field
of public health, medicine, nursing or the social sciences.  Based on
background and interests, post-docs may affiliate with UHI faculty at the
Bloomberg School of Public Health, School of Nursing, School of Medicine or
Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences of the Johns Hopkins University.
 These appointments may involve work in any of the schools’ research
centers, including the Center for Adolescent Health Promotion and Disease
Prevention, the Center for STD Research, the Center for the Prevention of
Youth Violence, Center for Health Disparities Research, and others.

The goal of this post-doctoral fellowship is to facilitate training for and
promote future faculty leaders in the field of urban health research.
Post-docs will have access to available data sets involving urban
populations and will be encouraged to carry out scholarly research and
publication.  Post-docs will also develop their own research proposals and
begin to conduct their own independent research as the foundation for their
career development.  They will have the opportunity to work with nationally
known experts in several areas of urban health research, including
addressing chronic diseases in community settings, preventing and addressing
the effects of community and family violence, prevention of maternal child
health problems, the use of informatics to reduce health disparitites and
others. Since the work of the center is strongly community-based, post-docs
will learn and develop the techniques of community-based participatory
research as well as have the opportunity to obtain further training in other
research methods (e.g. neighborhood analysis, community-based clinical
trials, combining qualitative and quantitative methods).  Stipend and
benefits are based on NIH recommended scales.

Submit applications, including a full curriculum vita, statement of research
interests and goals and 2 letters of recommendation to Dr. C. E. Fox,
Director, Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute  111 Market Place, Suite 850,
Baltimore, MD 21202.

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