Postdoctoral Associate, Epidemiology, School of Public HealthThe Department of Epidemiology at the Boston University School of Public Health invites applications for a Postdoctoral Associate Research Fellow to conduct NIH-funded epidemiologic research on the effects of environmental chemical exposures on reproductive health. The Postdoc will work with data from the Study of Environment, Lifestyle, and Fibroids (SELF), a prospective cohort study of Black women designed to investigate environmental, lifestyle, and reproductive factors associated with gynecologic and reproductive outcomes. They will lead and collaborate on analyses evaluating associations between environmental chemical exposures, including exposure to mixtures of chemicals, and reproductive outcomes, with a particular emphasis on fertility outcomes. This position provides an opportunity to develop expertise at the intersection of reproductive epidemiology, environmental epidemiology, and advanced statistical methods. The Postdoc will be expected to work independently and take intellectual leadership in statistical analysis, manuscript preparation, and dissemination of findings, while collaborating with investigators across epidemiology, environmental health, biostatistics, and reproductive health. A particular focus of the fellowship will be the application of mixtures modeling approaches to characterize the reproductive effects of correlated and co-occurring environmental chemical exposures. The Postdoctoral Associate will conduct independent and collaborative epidemiologic research examining the effects of environmental chemical exposures on reproductive health outcomes. Using data from the SELF cohort, they will investigate associations between individual and combined chemical exposures and outcomes including fertility and other reproductive outcomes. Key responsibilities include designing and conducting epidemiologic analyses, evaluating associations between environmental chemical exposures and reproductive outcomes, applying advanced statistical methods for evaluating the health effects of chemical mixtures, developing analytic approaches that address exposure correlation, nonlinearity, interactions, and potential confounding in environmental epidemiologic studies, leading the preparation and submission of manuscripts for peer-reviewed journals, presenting research findings at national and international scientific conferences, contributing to the development of grant applications focused on environmental and reproductive health, collaborating with multidisciplinary investigators in epidemiology, environmental health, biostatistics, and reproductive health, contributing to data management, quality control, analytic planning, and interpretation of findings, and mentoring and supporting students in epidemiologic methods, statistical programming, and scientific writing. The Postdoc will join an active research program in reproductive and environmental epidemiology at Boston University School of Public Health. The position offers opportunities to work with rich prospective cohort data and to develop expertise in innovative statistical approaches for environmental mixtures. The Postdoc will have opportunities for close mentorship and collaboration while also being encouraged to pursue research questions aligned with their interests and career goals. Required qualifications include a doctoral degree (PhD, ScD, or equivalent) in Epidemiology, Environmental Health, or a closely related discipline, strong training in epidemiologic methods and quantitative research, demonstrated experience with environmental mixtures modeling, experience conducting analyses using large observational or longitudinal epidemiologic datasets, strong programming and statistical skills in SAS, R, or a comparable statistical programming language, demonstrated ability to independently design, conduct, and interpret epidemiologic analyses, excellent scientific writing and oral communication skills, and strong interest in reproductive and environmental health research.
