The University of California, Berkeley and the UC San Francisco on Oct. 20 jointly launched a new, one-of-a-kind program in computational precision health, a significant step toward advancing this new field and, ultimately, improving the quality and equity of health care.
The ongoing digitisation of our everyday life offers unique opportunities for innovation in healthcare. The Chair of Digital Health Interventions is an integral part of the Centre for Digital Health Interventions, a joint initiative of the Institute for Implementation Science in Health Care at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich (UZH), both the School of Medicine and the Institute of Technology Management at the University of St.Gallen (HSG), and the Department of Management, Technology, and Economics at ETH Zurich (ETH).
We are hiring faculty and recruiting Ph.D. students interested in personal health informatics at Northeastern University in Boston. Research areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the development or deployment of technology to quantify mental or physical health behavior in natural settings; technology-enabled, tailored interventions; personal health informatics; and human-computer interaction for health. Aspiring candidates may be developing methods or applications related to measuring and interpreting real-world mental health or lifestyle behavior using personal digital devices, including smartphones and consumer health devices, or use computational modeling on such data to enhance our understanding of the interaction between behavior and health. We are especially interested in the intersection of these domains and efforts to understand and reduce health disparities among marginalized populations.
Boston University College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College invites applications for a full-time tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level in the Department of Physical Therapy & Athletic Training beginning in the fall of 2022. Appointments are for a nine-month academic year. We are seeking a colleague who will help us continue to build on the College’s tradition of excellence in rehabilitation sciences, physical therapy (PT), clinical practice, and scholarship.
A Research Associate position is available at the Yale University School of Medicine within Frederick
Altice’s group, starting in Fall/Winter 2021. We are primarily interested in developing and applying
machine learning, statistical approaches, and wearables to understand outcomes associated with
substance use.
A postdoctoral fellow position is available at the Yale University School of Medicine within Frederick
Altice’s group, starting Fall/Winter 2021. We are primarily interested in developing and applying machine
learning, statistical approaches, and wearables to understand outcomes associated with substance use
Northwestern University’s Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies (CBITs) is seeking applicants for our NIMH T32 postdoctoral fellowship, “Multidisciplinary Training Program in Digital Mental Health” beginning July 2021 (see http://cbits.northwestern.edu/training-081020/).
A two-year postdoctoral fellow position is available at the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Department of Epidemiology. This position is with the American Heart Association (AHA)/Gates Ventures Dementia Technology Center, This center is part of the American Heart Association Strategically Focused Research Network for Health Technologies and Innovation and is centered around the theme of developing an “Integrated Digital Technology Platform for Optimization of Precision Brain Health.” The successful candidate will be supervised by Dr. Lydia Bazzano, MD, Ph.D., Professor of Epidemiology and Director of The Center for Lifespan Epidemiology Research.
UCSD (University of Calfornia, San Diego) is seeking a post-doctoral researcher with specialization in data science, geographic, and statistical methods, as well as domain knowledge in public health applications, to join our team in working on a diverse array of research projects. The research fellow will work with PIs Marta Jankowska from the UCSD Qualcomm Institute, Tarik Benmarhnia from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and School of Public Health at UCSD, and Loki Natarajan from the Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics in the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health at UCSD. The primary project seeks to develop methods for understanding minute-level predictors of physical activity, sleep, eating behaviors or metabolic related diseases as influenced by environmental contextual factors such as green spaces, noise, or air pollution.
The Research Engineering Associate III will act as the principal for the firmware component/hardware of various embedded devices, mostly in the form of wearables and smart watches. The individual will work in unison with a design team/ a talented group of researchers to create various hardware and software com ponents. The team at Texas A&M is a highly dynamic group working on cutting edge technologies related to design and development of wearable sensors and wearable computers.
The post-doctoral research scholars will serve as a technical point of contact for systems project related to design and development of wearable sensors, with two specific focuses for two positions: 1) on signal processing and analytics, 2) on circuits and systems. The ideal candidate will be recent graduate with a PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or Biomedical Engineering with strong publication track records in the area of wearable sensors and computer design. The candidate will be expected to work with the state-of-the-art wearable technological solutions in unison with a design team/ a talented group of researchers to create signal processing solutions mostly for wearable sensor data. The team at Texas A&M is a highly dynamic group working on cutting edge technologies related to design and development of wearables sensors and wearable computers. The projects are highly visible, and the candidate will have the opportunity to establish a strong foundation for her or his career.
The Department of Medical Social Sciences (MSS), Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University invites applications for a new position as a team scientist (assistant to associate professor) in the area of patient-centered health communication and user experience with information systems. Northwestern Medicine (NM) is an integrated healthcare system of 7 hospitals anchored by a premier academic medical center in the 3rd largest city in the US.
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The Computer Science Department at Western Washington University (WWU) invites applications for multiple tenure-track positions beginning September 2020 at the rank of Assistant Professor. All areas of research specialization will be considered but we will give preference to those with research and teaching interests in areas such as Embedded Systems, Computer Engineering, or High-Performance Computing. Regardless of specialty, we expect that new faculty will strengthen the department's collaborations internally and externally and will contribute to our efforts related to diversity and inclusion.
The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities are seeking one full-time postdoctoral fellow to join the newly established Digital Health & Health Disparities Research Lab. The lab is housed in the Population and Community Health Sciences Branch of the Intramural Research Program at the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institutes of Health. The mission of the lab is to optimize health information technologies for health promotion and disease prevention among minorities and health disparity populations. Current projects include a just-in-time adaptive smoking cessation intervention targeting low socioeconomic young adult smokers. This is a fulltime 2 to 3-year appointment with year-to-year renewal based on satisfactory performance and availability of funds.
BioTrillion are seeking applicants for a Senior Computer Vision Engineer. "As an early team member, you'll be able to reimagine aspects of healthcare as a science and business, work across the computer, data, and life sciences, innovate into a new frontier, be well compensated in cash + equity (with significant upside potential) + benefits, and most importantly, work on a meaningful endeavor designed to enhance human quality of life and longevity. We are building a team of intensely analytical and creative people who bring a mix of life sciences, technology, and relevant experience from inside and outside the healthcare industry.
The Clinical Excellence Research Center (CERC) in the Department of Medicine at Stanford University seeks research faculty to join the Center as Assistant Professor or Associate Professor or Professor in the University Tenure Line (UTL) or the Medical Center line (MCL). We are seeking dynamic individuals to bring intellectual leadership and rigorous scholarship within the Center’s research focus.
The Center’s focus is the discovery of scalable methods of high-quality healthcare delivery that lower population-wide health spending. Please visit CERC’s website for further background. We especially encourage candidates who examine how information technology tools enable higher-value care at scale via applications such as decision support, workflow support, information exchange, and emerging forms of artificial intelligence.
The Mobile Health (mHealth) for Mental Health Program (www.mh4mh.org) at the University Of Washington in Seattle is seeking applicants for a full-time postdoctoral clinical psychology fellowship. The program is affiliated with UW’s Behavioral Research in Technology and Engineering (BRITE) Center within the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
Program director Dr. Dror Ben-Zeev will be the primary mentor for this position. The postdoctoral fellow will dedicate approximately half of their time to the development of an independent program of research within the area of mHealth for mental health. Specific activities may involve a combination of pilot studies, secondary data analysis, manuscript preparation, drafting and submitting new grant proposals, as well supporting and participating in ongoing mH4MH research activities.
The University of California at San Diego has an opening for a postdoctoral research scholar in biostatistics. The research fellow will work on the development and application of statistical methods for high dimensional data. These involve 'omics data as well as time-series sensor data as obtained from accelerometers, actigraphs or GPS devices.
Candidates with methodological research interests in 'omics prognostic and network modeling, functional and spatial data analysis, and multivariate longtitudinal data are sought. Scientific areas include physical activity and sleep studies, intervention trials, metabolomics and kidney disease, and public health.
The Methodology Center in the College of Health and Human Development at The Pennsylvania State University seeks a qualified candidate for a non-tenure-track research faculty position. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to collaborate with an interdisciplinary team of investigators in the Center to carry out methodologically innovative research related to drug abuse, and to disseminate this research broadly in the social, behavioral, and health sciences.
Candidates at either the assistant or associate level will be considered. This position involves, but is not limited to, conducting research focused on technical demonstrations and empirical studies using mixture models and time-varying coefficient models applied to data on substance use and comorbid risky behaviors.
Applications are being taken for a postdoctoral position housed at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), Department of Medicine, School of Medicine with cross-site training activities at the University of California, Irvine, Department of Psychological Science and the University of California San Diego (UCSD), Department of Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Services Research Center (CASRC).
According to a job posting, the position is for a full-time postdoctoral fellow with a strong interest in implementation science and digital mental health. The postdoctoral fellow will primarily work with Drs. Stephen Schueller (UCI, Psychological Science), Nicole Stadnick (UCSD/CASRC), and colleagues on a California Mental Health Services Authority (CalMHSA) funded formative evaluation for the Innovation Technology Suite Project (INN Tech Suite Project).
The Department of Psychology at the University of California, Los Anglees has an opening gfor a tenure-track Assistant Professor or tenured early Associate Professor in the Biopsychosocial Science of Health.
According to an announcement, UCLA seeks applicants who are pursuing innovative and collaborative biopsychosocial research on the dynamic interactions among psychological, social, behavioral, and biological factors, and their impact on health and disease. Example topic areas include health across the lifespan, and widely accessible approaches to prevention and intervention. Potential affiliations within the Department of Psychology include health, clinical, social, developmental, and other areas.
The Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences in the Brown University School of Public Health has an tenure-track opening for a scientist faculty member at the Assistant Professor level. The position will be available July 1, 2019.
According to a job posting, Brown is seeking candidates who have experience in digital technologies for public health, including but not limited to technology-based interventions for public health and global health. Focus areas include smartphone applications, wearable sensors, geospatial mapping and fencing, software development, and quantitative methods for analysis of mHealth data. The target behaviors or health conditions could include but are not limited to substance use disorders, physical activity, nutrition, obesity, and HIV.
The Survey Research Center (SRC) within the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan has an open rank (tenured or tenure-track) position with a focus on statistical methodology, data science, behavioral theory or some combination relevant to research on adaptive interventions (also known as dynamic treatment regimens) or just-in-time adaptive interventions.
Adaptive interventions provide a guide for customizing intervention (e.g., treatment, preventive or educational strategies) in a way that is tailored to the individual or organization. Just-in-time adaptive interventions often use mobile technologies to facilitate the delivery of individually-tailored interventions in near real-time. In health applications, this is an area of research that belongs to the domain of “precision medicine”.
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), is seeking exceptional candidates for the position of the Director of Environmental Science Cyberinfrastructure (DESC). The DESC will have primary responsibility for aligning the current and future cyberinfrastructure needs of NIEHS with overall scientific priorities in the field of environmental health sciences.
According to job posting, the DESC will develop, implement, and coordinate a multitude of resource environments in information technology and scientific computing to support and propel a wide array of current and future scientific research opportunities at NIEHS.
The Behavioral Research in Technology and Engineering (BRiTE) Center in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine has an opening for a full-time, 12-month service period appointment, at the Assistant or Associate Professor level without tenure.
The BRiTE Center focuses on the development and implementation of technology-based interventions for mental illness and behavioral health problems. The center emphasizes interdisciplinary team science approaches and proactively partners with technologists, healthcare delivery systems, and technology industry in pursuit of its goals.
Pennsylvania State University's College of Health and Human Development is seeking applicants for the position of Professor and Founding Director of the Center for Individualized Health Research and Intervention (CIHRI).
According to the job posting, the new center will be focused on improving public health by advancing research that leverages new and emerging technologies, methods, and data sources to establish, promote, and sustain health and positive health behaviors through novel data capture and intervention strategies.
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