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The Stanford Prevention Research Center, an interdisciplinary research program on the prevention of chronic disease, is seeking MD, PhD, and other post-doctoral level applicants for research fellowships. Fellows gain direct research experience in cardiovascular disease, cancer, and chronic disease prevention, community and health psychology, behavioral medicine, sleep medicine, clinical and community trials methodology, clinical and molecular epidemiology, research design, and biostatistics with opportunity for training in Stanford’s Preventive Cardiology Clinic, Stanford Cancer Institute, and Department of Epidemiology and Population Health.
We particularly encourage applicants with interests in the following (covering multiple dimensions of prevention research):
- Asian American health and prevention research
- Child and adolescent health promotion (behavioral approaches to obesity prevention and treatment, tobacco use control and prevention)
- Health inequalities and promoting health equity
- Obesity prevention and control
- Global health and chronic disease prevention
- Citizen science for health promotion and disease prevention
- Strategies to improve clinical delivery of prevention and chronic disease management
- Chronic disease risk factors in community and clinical settings
- Effect of aging and other factors on bone health, fitness, and physical function
- Healthy aging
- Multi-cancer Detection Research (MCD): Blood-based biomarkers for early detection of multiple cancers
- Assessing built environment's impact using health technology
- Environmental and neighborhood influences on health (physical, social, cultural environments)
- Health behavior change (nutrition, physical activity, sedentary behavior, sleep quality, and e-cigarette and tobacco use prevention and treatment)
- Nature, climate change, and well-being and health
- Genetics of prevention (cardiovascular and cancer genetic epidemiology, genetic risk scores, and gene-environment interactions)
- Technologies for intervention and assessment of health behaviors and conditions (ambulatory monitoring, ecological momentary assessment, mHealth, social media, and telemedicine)
- Data science for preventive medicine using biobanks, electronic health records, AI, and multi-omics
- Research methodology (community interventions, community-based participatory research, meta-analysis and bias in research, RCT methods, causal interference, mathematical modeling, and econometrics)
- Policy research related to public health
- Women’s health and gender science
- Dismantling inequities in sports medicine
- Building the scientific evidence base about wellbeing through observational, intervention and biomarker research studies
- Best practices for building and sustaining wellbeing among all segments of populations
Stanford University is committed to increasing representation of women and minorities in its fellowship programs and particularly encourages applications from such candidates. 2 years appointment.
Applications are currently being accepted until Nov 30 and interviews will be done remotely.
Information and the on-line application can be found on our website: http://prevention.stanford.edu/education/fellowship.html
Additional questions should be directed to
Prof. Christopher Gardner, Fellowship Director
c/o Alyssa Sacro
3180 Porter Drive, Palo Alto CA 94304-1212 via email at: asacro@stanford.edu
Fellowships are available for U.S. citizens or permanent residents who by the time of appointment will hold an MD or a PhD degree (or equivalent). Physician applicants generally have completed residency in internal medicine, preventive medicine, pediatrics, or psychiatry, or may be concurrently enrolled in a clinical fellowship at Stanford.
The SPRC Fellowship does not include clinical training and specifically is not a cardiology subspecialty program. For specific interests of our faculty, please see "Research interests".
The length of training is two years. The training program can also provide tuition support for completing a Masters degree in epidemiology, clinical research methods, or public health (at the University of California, Berkeley).
Please note: According to U.S. policy, any individual appointed to this training grant must be a citizen or a non-citizen national of the United States or have been lawfully admitted for permanent residence (i.e., in possession of the Alien Registration Receipt Card I-551 or I-151) at the time of appointment. Individuals on temporary or student visas are not eligible.
To apply for the fellowship, please use the online form, which needs to include:
- Application Information
- Curriculum vitae
- Statement of professional plans, investigative interests, and goals for your training at Stanford; please also list Stanford faculty with whom you would prefer to meet if invited for an interview, click here.
- Three letters from professional references