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Human and Community Development Researcher

Employer
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
Location
Illinois, United States
Salary
Not specified
Date posted
Feb 15, 2018

The Office of Population Science and Policy (OPSP) at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine (SIUSOM) invites applications for a Human and Community Development Researcher. We have a growing team of researchers with an outstanding record of research in children’s health disparities, social innovation, and community health. The diverse faculty in OPSP collaborate with departments across the medical and university campuses through teaching, mentoring and research projects.

 Successful candidates will have: a M.D. or Ph.D. and/or post-doctoral training in human development, family studies, community development, social entrepreneurship, educational psychology and/or policy, social psychology, child development; a demonstrated emphasis and expertise in research with children, families or communities; excellent verbal and written communication skills; evidence of research capabilities demonstrated by publications in peer-reviewed specialty journals. Sensitive to the needs of underrepresented minority populations. We are particularly interested in candidates with experience in community based participatory research and its effect on improving the health of children, families and/or communities. 

This is a research position dedicated to providing insight and innovation to advance the mission and goals of the Office of Population Science and Policy.  The candidate will be expected to develop and pursue a portfolio of externally funded research complementary to high priority areas of OPSP, e.g. children’s health disparities, social innovation, community health, or human development.  The successful candidate will demonstrate use of various research techniques (may include but is not limited to case study, ethnography, naturalistic observation, survey design, and/or statistical data collection techniques). The overall emphasis will be on collaborating with communities to better understand children and family development within our service region and identify innovations that are happening within our communities to improve the health of families and children. The position requires expertise in human development, community building, and population-based research studies with the aim of improving children and/or family health outcomes in central and southern Illinois.

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