Post-Doc Research Associate

UNC-Chapel Hill • Chapel Hill, NC

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About The Position

The Injury Prevention Research Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites applications for a postdoctoral position. This is a full-time research position. The successful candidate would join a research team conducting multiple epidemiologic research studies related to suicide and overdose prevention involving big data linkages. The Post-Doctoral Research Associate’s primary responsibility will be to collaborate on research leading to peer-reviewed publications, primarily through secondary data analysis of large health insurance claims data, electronic medical records, death records and other large secondary datasets. This Postdoctoral Research Associate will also supervise graduate and undergraduate students and will be given resources and mentoring to develop their own research in the field of injury and violence prevention.

Requirements

• earned doctorate in Epidemiology (preferred) or a closely related field
• undertaken studies and research relevant to suicide prevention
• experience in conducting secondary data analysis of large healthcare databases
• experience conducting data analyses using one or more statistical tools including SAS , R, Stata, or Python

Nice To Haves

• experience in causal inference predictive modeling, and data linkages
• strong publication record for their career stage
• strong oral and written communication skills
• proven team-working skills

Responsibilities

• collaborate on research leading to peer-reviewed publications
• secondary data analysis of large health insurance claims data, electronic medical records, death records and other large secondary datasets
• supervise graduate and undergraduate students
• develop their own research in the field of injury and violence prevention

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees