Postdoc Position in Mental Health Disparities/Services Research at Johns Hopkins

06 Feb 2024    

The Department of Psychiatry - Pediatric Community Psychiatry, Children’s Service Use and Disparities Solutions (C-SUDS) Lab at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine are recruiting a postdoctoral researcher. Please apply if this is of interest to you or forward if you know someone who might be interested.

The ideal applicant will have experience in clinical psychology, psychiatry, social work, or a related field. Experience in mental health services research and implementation research is highly desired, though not required. Experience or interest in health disparities and quantitative analysis methods is also desired.

The postdoctoral researcher will primarily be working with Andrea Young, PhD along with John Campo, MD, and other research team members on one or more funded (both NIH-funded and locally funded) research projects in the areas of children’s services research, mental health disparities, and research and a program development project leveraging data housed in electronic medical records. There is also opportunity for the postdoctoral researcher to work with Rheanna Platt, MD, PhD and colleagues at Johns Hopkins’ Center for Salud/Health and Opportunities for Latinos (Centro SOL) on an NIMHD-funded implementation-effectiveness trial of an Early Learning Center-based preventive intervention for postpartum depression.  The postdoc may also have the opportunity to provide direct patient care in a pediatric community psychiatry setting under the supervision of Dr. Young.

This position includes health insurance benefits, support for travel to academic conferences, opportunities to work remotely, access to many biostatistics courses through the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health (to audit or take for credit), etc.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Work collaboratively with study team on federally- and locally-funded children’s health services-focused research and program development projects
• Manage and perform data collection activities
• Assist in the analysis and management of data
• Assist in the preparation of study protocols and materials (e.g., IRB) and other essential functions
• Conduct literature reviews and summarize findings
• Author/co-author research manuscripts
• Help with writing grant proposals, lead writing career development grants (if interested and applicable)
   

Education:

• PhD (or equivalent) in Clinical, Counseling, or School Psychology or a related field is required.
   

Experience & Required Skills:

• An individual with formal training in clinical psychology or a related field.
• Good understanding of related research processes and methodologies including quantitative research methods.
• Familiarity with quantitative analysis methods and corresponding software (e.g., statistical analysis with SPSS, SAS, STATA, MPLUS, and/or R)
• Strong interest in conducting health services research and program development.
• Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively as part of a research team
• Ability to balance and prioritize tasks, and delivers timely outcomes
• Excellent problem solving, organizational, writing and communication skills
   

Preferred but not required:

• Experience using electronic medical records systems such as (but not limited to) EPIC.
• Experience with engaging in program evaluation/quality improvement projects.
• Familiarity with the healthcare domain and experience conducting research in healthcare.
• Experience in IRB protocol preparation
• Experience collecting and analyzing qualitative data

Application deadline: No specific deadline. However, applicants are encouraged to apply for the position as soon as possible. Applications will be reviewed as they are received. Ideal start would be June - September 2024.

Please direct any questions about the position or application to Andrea Young, PhD (ayoung90@jhmi.edu) or Rheanna Platt, MD, PhD (rplatt1@jhmi.edu)

Applications should be submitted via Interfolio (http://apply.interfolio.com/120860). Please provide a cover letter (describing research experiences and interest in services research and program evaluation), CV, and names and contact information of two references.