Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health
Center for Adolescent Health
Johns Hopkins University Center for Adolescent Health
Postdoctoral Fellowship Announcement
Applications are invited for a full-time post-doctoral fellowship beginning in July 2012 with the
Center for Adolescent Health (CAH) in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
This fellowship will last through September 2013.
The Center is a Prevention Research Center funded by the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention. Its core research project, Healthy Minds at Work, is a multi-component mental
health intervention aimed at improving mental health access and status among adolescents and
young adults ages 18-24 in job training programs. Follow-up data collection for a quasiexperimental study to evaluate the effectiveness of this intervention was recently completed.
The selected fellow will work with an interdisciplinary team to conduct analysis on the array of
data collected as part of this project. These data include baseline, 6-month, and 12-month
participant mental health, service receipt, employment and education information to assess
potential mediating intervention effects on life course outcomes. The selected fellow, in
consultation with the study investigators and biostatistics consultants, will spearhead the
longitudinal multi-level analyses examining intervention effects and contributing to manuscript
preparation. Opportunities for individualized support of fellows’ writing, quantitative skills and
career development are negotiable but focus must be on adolescent health issues.
Minimum Qualifications: All candidates must have an earned doctorate in public health,
psychology, sociology or a related field; a strong interest in and previous experience conducting
mental health research; training and experience conducting intervention research; strong
quantitative analysis skills, including LDA and multi-level modeling; previous experience
conceptualizing and conducting independent data analysis; excellent writing skills; and strong
oral communication skills. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or must be authorized to work in the
U.S.
Desirable characteristics: Familiarity with urban adolescents and young adults; strong attention
to detail; experience working in partnership with community-based organizations; and
experience working as part of a research team.
To apply to the fellowship program, the following materials are requested from each
applicant: (1) current curriculum vitae; (3) a list of three references with contact information
(three letters of support should be sent under separate cover); (4) written description of research
training background and current research interests; and (5) representative reprints if available.
Please forward the requested documents to Ms. Netta Tsemach ntsemach@jhsph.edu
Please note that applicants may be asked at a later date to provide an academic transcript from
graduate/undergraduate institutions.
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Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health
Center for Adolescent Health
The deadline for application materials is rolling. We will initiate telephone interviews with
selected applicants. Upon identifying the most competitive candidates, we may conduct inperson interviews to assist faculty in making final decisions. At this time, candidates may be
expected to have prepared a research talk to be delivered to core and affiliated faculty in a
colloquium-style presentation. Final decisions will consider the overall strength and promise of
the applicant, fit with the program objectives, and overlap of research interests with core faculty
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