Postdoctoral Research Fellow

**Job Description**
The Challenging Health inequities in Adolescents and Nurturing Global Empowerment (CHANGE) lab, housed in the Institute for Health Equity and Social Justice Research (IHESJR), invites applications for a youth health equity postdoctoral fellow position starting Fall 2025. The postdoctoral scholar will collaborate with Dr. Idia Binitie Thurston on strengths-based research advancing health equity for youth of color and their families through community-engaged practices. The lab focuses on areas like immigrant health, resilience, stress, metabolic health, youth participatory action research, community needs assessment, social drivers of health, and structural barriers/facilitators in diversifying academic health sciences, offering opportunities for the fellow to develop and execute their own projects.

**Skills & Abilities**
• Strong theoretical, design, and quantitative skills including survey development, qualitative and mixed-method designs, advanced multivariate analyses, and Community Based Participatory Research.
• Established productivity as lead author on articles published in peer-reviewed journals.
• Experience recruiting and working collaboratively with groups underrepresented in academia and communities experiencing marginalization.
• Demonstrated commitment to a social justice, decolonial, and health equity research agenda, as well as strengths-based approaches to improving health outcomes.
• Strong analytic and conceptual/theoretical skills.
• Demonstrated capacity to communicate the findings of scientific research (e.g., assist in writing articles for peer-reviewed scientific journals).
• Ability to work independently and co-operatively.

**Qualifications**
Required Degree(s) in:
• Psychology
• Public Health
• Relevant Social Science disciplines
(Doctorate required, awarded no later than August 2025)

**Experience**
Experience Required:
• At least 3 years of demonstrated research experience in the social drivers of health for youth and families in one or more of the following areas: HIV and other sexual health risks or co-occurring adversities; mental health; risk and resilience in response to race- or weight-based stigma and discrimination; use of artificial intelligence (AI) and technology to address health inequities.

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