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Postdoctoral Fellowship: Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (BSPH) is pleased to announce a postdoctoral fellowship in child and family health services with a focus on case management, service coordination, and workforce development in the context of early childhood home visiting programs. The postdoctoral fellow will work primarily with two HRSA-funded projects, the Jackie Walorski Center for Evidence-Based Case Management and the Home Visiting Applied Research Collaborative (HARC). The goal of the Center is to identify, evaluate, and disseminate evidence-based case management practices and strategies within the maternal, infant, and early childhood home visiting context. HARC is a national research and development platform for innovation to broaden and strengthen home visiting's benefits for all families and communities. The projects collaborate with numerous academic and research partners.
The fellow will contribute to community-engaged research that includes but is not limited to literature reviews, research study design and implementation, data analysis, and dissemination. Opportunities also exist in this role to collaborate on papers from other studies focused on home visiting implementation and workforce development. The fellowship is for a 12-month period, with the potential option to renew for additional years, contingent on funding. The fellow will report to Dr. Allison West and will be part of a vibrant department and university with a multitude of opportunities for collaboration and professional development.
Required Qualifications:
- Doctoral degree in prevention science, public health, social work, psychology, nursing, or a closely related discipline by the time of the appointment
- Demonstrated record of applied health or social services research in the U.S. context
- Proficiency in quantitative and qualitative data management, analysis, and presentation skills including ability to use statistical packages
- Excellent writing skills, as evidenced by publications, grant‐writing experience, and/or personal references
- Excellent critical thinking, oral communication, and community engagement skills
- Strong interest in applied health services research, community-engaged research, home visiting, and family- and early childhood systems
Preferred Qualifications:
The preferred candidate will have previous prevention research experience in the U.S. context in areas such as early childhood home visiting, early childhood systems, case management, service coordination, trauma-informed care, and/or health equity.
Instructions for Applying:
Interested applicants should submit the following to Dr. West at awest25@jhu.edu:
- Cover letter describing research interests, career goals, and prior experience
- Curriculum vitae
- Contact information of 3 references
Each application will be evaluated on the following criteria:
- Fit of research interests and experience
- How the postdoctoral fellowship will help to further the scholar’s research agenda
- Demonstrated record of increasing responsibility in research roles
We particularly welcome applications from individuals with lived experience related to the topics of interest and from members of groups historically under-represented in health and social services research. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, starting immediately. The ideal applicant would begin the fellowship in fall of 2024. The post offers a stipend and benefits commensurate with experience and qualifications, as well as opportunities for career development and independent work streams. The current minimum stipend level for BSPH postdoctoral scholars is $62,132.