CHHASSEM Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

*The CHHASSEM Postdoctoral Research Fellowship is on pause and will not be recruiting for the 2025-26 year.

Postdoctoral fellows collaborate on established projects and are encouraged to conduct independent research with an emphasis on study inception, manuscript writing, and applying for grants. CHHASSEM’s resources and collaborative support provide fellows with mentorship, expose them to multiple methodological approaches to research in decision-making and bioethics, and enable fellows to build their own research programs. Postdoctoral fellows contribute to the scholarly mission and intellectual life at the Center by regularly attending Center research seminars and working groups and by participating in a rotation on our ethics consultation service. 

The postdoctoral research fellowships in either Bioethics or Decision Sciences are annual appointments that will start in late summer or early fall and may be renewed for one additional year contingent upon satisfactory performance and the availability of funding. Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience and education.

Bioethics Postdoctoral Research Fellow

This fellowship focuses on research and clinical ethics as well as empirical research methods. Candidates' area of focus must be in bioethics, although their backgrounds may be in social or natural sciences, humanities, medicine, or law. Active projects in bioethics currently include the ethical, legal, and social implications of genomic medicine, human subjects research ethics, empirical research with relevance to clinical ethics, reproductive rights, deliberative democratic methods in bioethics, resource allocation, and ethical issues associated with learning health systems, among others.

Decision Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellow

This fellowship focuses on understanding and improving the healthcare communication and decisions made by both patients and providers. Past postdoctoral fellows have included scholars whose research in healthcare communication and decision-making has been grounded in theories and methodologies drawn from social cognition, motivation and emotion, decision psychology, risk communication, human factors, ethics, and economics.