Post-Doctoral Position Opening
LIBERTY MUTUAL-HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN OCCUPATIONAL INJURY AND DISABILITY RESEARCH
The Harvard Education and Research Center for Occupational Health and Safety offers a post-doctoral fellowship in occupational injury and/or disability research. These are full-time positions for a maximum of two years.
Post-doctoral researchers conduct ergonomics, occupational safety, occupational injury epidemiology, or work-related injury disability and return to work research in close collaboration with injury research scientists at the at the Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety in Hopkinton, MA and with the Harvard ERC faculty in the Harvard School of Public Health. Duties include data collection and analysis, publishing in the peer-reviewed literature, participating in seminars and work groups, and collaborating on research grant applications.
Successful applicants have had a doctoral degree in epidemiology, safety research, ergonomics, behavioral science, medicine or a related field. Candidates must also have less than five years experience post-doctorate, a demonstrated record of individual initiative in research, strong analytic skills, and potential to become an independent academic researcher within two to three years. Preference will be given to applicants whose training, skills and research interests best align with those of mentors at the ERC and LMRIS. Potential applicants are encouraged to view the ERC and LMRIS web sites and contact faculty/research scientists with common interests: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/erc/ and http://www.libertymutualgroup.com/researchinstitute
A brief overview of current and prior program fellows is available at: <http://www.libertymutualgroup.com/omapps/ContentServer?pagename=LMGroup/Views/LMG&ft=4&fid=1138365101413&ln=en>
The annual salary is set according to the experience of the candidate, plus a generous benefits package. These positions are contingent upon funding. The next round of applications is now open and the application deadline is October 31, 2011. Interested candidates and doctoral trainees expecting to graduate by summer 2012 are encouraged to communicate with the program and participating faculty and scientists for more information. Apply to: Professor David C. Christiani c/o Ms. Starr Sumpter, Department of Environmental Health, 665 Huntington Avenue. Boston, MA, 02115. Applications must include cover letter (referencing contacts with proposed mentors), current curriculum vitae, statement of research interests, and names of three references.
Email: ssumpter@hsph.harvard.edu
