Posted on July 09, 2014
Source: JHSPH
The Johns Hopkins HIV Epidemiology and Prevention Sciences Training Program is recruiting post-doctoral candidates for advanced training in HIV epidemiology and prevention sciences. The program combines training in scholarly training in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health with collaborative research experiences with top investigators in epidemiology, clinical, and prevention research. The program is housed in the Department of Epidemiology (http://www.jhsph.edu/dept/EPI/). Qualified post-doctoral applicants include graduates from PhD programs in epidemiology, social and behavioral sciences, medicine or related discipline, and physicians with clinical training. Trainees must be formally enrolled at BSPH in the Department of Epidemiology.
The training program has three areas of focus, described below:
• HIV Epidemiology Research Methods and Translational Sciences including (1) Populations and Study Designs, including identifying, recruiting, and retaining populations relevant for HIV research and global HIV epidemiological cohort studies; (2) Measurement issues in HIV populations, including innovative methods for surveillance, estimation of HIV prevalence and incidence, and novel population-based measures of disease burden; (3) Inference techniques, including modern analytical methods for causal inference and mathematical modeling; and (4) Synthesis and Translation of research findings to public health practice, including systematic reviews/meta-analyses and emerging issues in implementation science.
• HIV Clinical Epidemiology and Laboratory Sciences including (1) Epidemiology of major co-infections and co-morbidities associated with HIV, (2) Measurement of the spectrum of genetic, virologic, immunologic, and clinical factors that are vital to modern HIV research.
• HIV Prevention Sciences including how to prevent and reduce the burden of HIV through understanding (1) Behavioral Science aspects of HIV acquisition and transmission, (2) Design and Analysis of HIV biomedical and behavioral prevention trials, including treatment as prevention research (TasP), and (3) Community-based and Population-level approaches to HIV prevention and control beyond individual behavior change.
The program faculty spans a wide range of disciplines with strong collaborations across public health and medicine with expertise in HIV, clinical, laboratory and prevention sciences.
We will select well-qualified applicants for post-doctoral training. Only U.S. citizens and permanent U.S. residents are eligible for this program. Admission criteria include promise as a future researcher as well as compatibility with the existing mentors. The latter criterion is particularly important for research postdoctoral fellows, who must identify a research mentor prior to admission.
Please contact the Program Director, Dr. Chris Beyrer, cbeyrer@jhu.edu, or Program co-Director, Dr. Shruti Mehta, shmehta@jhsph.edu, for more information
