[DIV28SUPER] Postdoctoral Opportunities at NDRI

"Postdoctoral Fellowships in Drug Abuse Research – Technology and Health Focus, Behavioral Sciences Training Program, New York, NY"

 

There are immediate openings for two Postdoctoral Fellows with a focus on research pertaining to technology-based interventions for drug abuse. Fellows will be enrolled in The Behavioral Sciences Training (BST) program, the largest training program supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (16 postdoctoral and predoctoral fellows). The program is housed at National Development and Research Institutes, Inc., a non-profit research and training center with over 25 nationally renowned Principal Investigators and 70 major grants and contracts from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, other Federal and state agencies, and a variety of private sources. BST is administered by Public Health Solutions, the largest non-profit organization providing public health services and conducting health-related research in New York City, and affiliated with the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University.

 

All BST fellows attend weekly seminars at NDRI to receive advanced training in substance abuse research and methods. All postdocs also work closely with senior researchers at NDRI on on-going research and develop their own research projects and grants. The two Technology and Health Fellows will have the opportunity to participate on research projects including a web-based intervention for adolescents with substance use disorders, a web-based contingency management intervention for adult smokers, and a web-based intervention for recent Veterans with problematic substance use and post-traumatic stress. A study developing and testing a mobile intervention for methadone maintenance clients is expected to begin in December, 2011. These two postdocs also will receive support from BST staff and subject matter experts in NDRI's Center for Technology and Health in preparing technology-based grant applications to obtain funding for their own research.

 

Fellows will receive an annual stipend, health insurance, and a modest amount for travel and research-related expenses. Postdoctoral fellowship appointments are made for one year and are renewable for a second year, based upon satisfactory progress. Interested candidates can submit a letter of interest, curriculum vita, dissertation abstract, and a publication or paper to Gregory Falkin, Ph.D. at falkin@ndri.org and Bethany Raiff at raiff@ndri.org.  Please make sure to indicate at the top of your letter that you are applying for the Technology and Health Fellowship.

 

Detailed information including eligibility, application, award details are available at http://www.ndri.org/jobs/postdoc.html. More information about ongoing projects in the Center for Technology and Health can be found at http://www.ndri.org/ctrs/cth.html."

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