**Job Description**
The Postdoctoral Research Fellow will join the Challenging Health inequities in Adolescents and Nurturing Global Empowerment (CHANGE) lab, focusing on strengths-based research that advances health equity for youth of color and their families using community engaged practices. Working directly with Dr. Idia Binitie Thurston, the fellow will engage with areas such as immigrant health, resilience in the context of syndemics, stress and resilience drivers of metabolic health, youth participatory action research, community needs assessment, social drivers of health, and structural barriers to diversifying academic health sciences, with opportunities 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
**Experience**
Other:
• Demonstrated research experience for at least 3 years 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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