Postdoctoral Research Fellow

**Job Description**
The Challenging Health inequities in Adolescents and Nurturing Global Empowerment (CHANGE) lab invites applications for a youth health equity postdoctoral fellow position starting Fall 2025. This role focuses on strengths-based research aimed at advancing health equity for youth of color and their families through community-engaged practices. The postdoctoral scholar will work directly with Dr. Idia Binitie Thurston and engage in projects spanning individual, community, and structural levels of impact, including immigrant health, resilience, metabolic health, youth participatory action research, and social drivers of health. The fellow will have opportunities to develop and execute their own research projects.

**Skills & Abilities**
• Strong theoretical, design, and quantitative skills including survey development.
• Experience with qualitative and mixed-method designs.
• Proficiency in advanced multivariate analyses.
• Expertise in 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.
• Adherence to 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 (awarded no later than August 2025)

**Experience**
Experience Required:
• At least 3 years of 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.
Other:
• 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.

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