Position Title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental
Department: Environmental Medicine and Climate Science
Institution: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Location: New York, NY
Employment Type: Full Time
Start Date: Flexible and based on availability
Program and Resources
The Department of Environmental Medicine and Climate Science at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai https://icahn.mssm.edu/about/departments/environmental-climate-science supports a rapidly growing postdoctoral fellowship program. Training and research opportunities are available in epidemiology, data science, biostatistics, environmental health, exposure science, and/or child health research. You will work and train with a dedicated team of environmental epidemiologists, exposure scientists, biostatisticians, pediatricians, chemists, and toxicologists to support ongoing investigations involving clinical studies, exposure science, studies using large administrative datasets (e.g., Medicare, state health data), and ongoing longitudinal cohort studies based at Mount Sinai. Opportunities to develop new studies involving exposomic approaches to environmental factors (e.g., chemical, physical, nutritional, and social) in children, adolescents, and adults are available.
Our program hosts an NIEHS P30 Core Center, two NIH Human Health Exposure Analysis Resource (HHEAR) Lab Hubs, and the HHEAR data center. We are home to two Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) grants, the World Trade Center Responders Cohort, and a vibrant geospatial analysis program.
Eligible candidates may be supported by our T32 Postdoctoral Research Training Program in Environmental Pediatrics (T32HD049311). https://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/nihgps/html5/section_11/11.3.2_eligibility.htm
Responsibilities
Program and Resources
The Department of Environmental Medicine and Climate Science at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai https://icahn.mssm.edu/about/departments/environmental-climate-science supports a rapidly growing postdoctoral fellowship program. Training and research opportunities are available in epidemiology, data science, biostatistics, environmental health, exposure science, and/or child health research. You will work and train with a dedicated team of environmental epidemiologists, exposure scientists, biostatisticians, pediatricians, chemists, and toxicologists to support ongoing investigations involving clinical studies, exposure science, studies using large administrative datasets (e.g., Medicare, state health data), and ongoing longitudinal cohort studies based at Mount Sinai. Opportunities to develop new studies involving exposomic approaches to environmental factors (e.g., chemical, physical, nutritional, and social) in children, adolescents, and adults are available.
Our program hosts an NIEHS P30 Core Center, two NIH Human Health Exposure Analysis Resource (HHEAR) Lab Hubs, and the HHEAR data center. We are home to two Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) grants, the World Trade Center Responders Cohort, and a vibrant geospatial analysis program.
Eligible candidates may be supported by our T32 Postdoctoral Research Training Program in Environmental Pediatrics (T32HD049311). https://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/nihgps/html5/section_11/11.3.2_eligibility.htm
Faculty
Our faculty have diverse interests, including exposure science, novel tooth biomarkers, exposomic untargeted assays, spatial statistics, environmental pediatrics, oral health, respiratory health, community-based participatory research, neurobehavior, neuroimaging, and environmental statistics. Social determinants of health, health equity and environmental justice are areas of particular interest. Our faculty collaborate with researchers across the U.S. and internationally on studies involving cancer, uterine fibroma, lung growth, autism, ALS, and in clinical trials.
Qualifications
Qualifications
Candidates must have a doctoral degree (e.g., PhD, MD) and should be highly motivated to the study of environmental health, including learning new methodologies in Climate and Health, exposure science, complex mixtures data analysis, and exposomics, as applied to studies of human health and development.
Duties
Primary duties may include data collection, data analysis, and manuscript preparation, as well as building programming skills, laboratory skills, and study design skills. Other activities will include attending and presenting your research at workshops, seminars, and conferences and learning grant writing skills. Support for attending data science workshops is provided. Lab-based research fellowships in exposomics, exposure biomarkers, and epigenetics are available. This position may include opportunities for domestic and international travel.
Compensation Statement
The Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides a salary range to comply with the New York City Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for this role is $73,588.00 - $80,000.00 Annually. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and hospital need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.
About Us
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About the Mount Sinai Health System:
Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 48,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time - discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients' medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes more than 9,000 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics, top 5 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, and top 20 in Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report's "Best Children's Hospitals" ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country's best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 11 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek's "The World's Best Smart Hospitals" ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.
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