General Description

The Johns Hopkins School of Nursing (JHSON) has a 12-month, renewable position for a Postdoctoral Fellowship (working onsite). The Postdoctoral student will work closely with research faculty to support the conduct of health services research projects involving analyses of large health care datasets. Start date: 08/25/25.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

• Conducting research with administrative health care data
• Writing programming code in R, PYTHON, or SAS to support research on managed heath care data
• Contributing to dissemination content for the study website
• Contributing to the writing of research manuscripts
• Creating formatted results such as tables and graphics
• Participating in regular online project meetings
• Completing required human subjects training and remaining current with all required research and privacy trainings

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• PhD or similar doctorate degree with a quantitative focus (e.g., economics, statistics, applied mathematics, data science, computational science)
• Proficiency in data management and statistical analysis software (e.g., Python, SAS, STATA, R, SQL)
• Interest in applied research on managed health care organizations and systems
• The ability to work both collaboratively and independently on assigned tasks

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with PYTHON, R, or SAS
• Research experience in public health, health economics, medicine, or nursing 
• Experience using Medicare and/or Medicaid administrative data
• Experience using other healthcare data

Application Instructions

Candidates will need to include a CV, 3 letters of recommendations, and a manuscript sample.

About Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University remains committed to its founding principle, that education for all students should be grounded in exploration and discovery. Hopkins students are challenged not just to learn but also to advance learning itself. Critical thinking, problem solving, creativity, and entrepreneurship are all encouraged and nourished in this unique educational environment. After more than 130 years, Johns Hopkins remains a world leader in both teaching and research. Faculty members and their research colleagues at the university's Applied Physics Laboratory have each year since 1979 won Johns Hopkins more federal research and development funding than any other university. The university has nine academic divisions and campuses throughout the Baltimore-Washington area. The Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, the Whiting School of Engineering, the School of Education and the Carey Business School are based at the Homewood campus in northern Baltimore. The schools of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing share a campus in east Baltimore with The Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Peabody Institute, a leading professional school of music, is located on Mount Vernon Place in downtown Bal...timore. The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies is located in Washington's Dupont Circle area.

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