Position Title: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Environmental Health & Pediatric Exposomics
Location: New York, NY
Employment Type: Full Time
Description: The Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai supports a rapidly growing postdoctoral fellowship program which has doubled in faculty size within the past seven years, while catapulting from the #27 ranked program in Environmental Health NIH funding in 2012 to #2 (based on NIH report data) today.
Faculty: Our faculty have diverse interests including (but not limited to) 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. EMR data mining and wearables is a new area, as we have strong ties to our Institutional Clinical Translational Science Award (CTSA) including a new Exposomics Core, the only one of its kind in the NIH CTSA program.
Research: Our program hosts an NIEHS P30 Core Center, 2 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, a vibrant geospatial analysis program and strong ties to the Department of Pediatrics.
Several international cohorts are based at Mount Sinai as well, and 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.
Participants: Our grant-writing program has led to 18 successful NIH K awards among program participants in the past 10 years, including 14 K99 awards, 2 K25s, and 2 K23s. Graduates of our program now work as faculty at U Chicago, U Illinois-Chicago, U Cincinnati, Hofstra, U Pittsburgh, Penn State, U Minnesota, Florida State, NYU, Yale, Columbia, and Mount Sinai, among other institutions. Others hold positions in government (e.g. CDC, NY Health Dept.), foundations (e.g. Health Effects Institute), and industry (e.g. Tempus Inc., Estee Lauder, Google).
Duties:
● 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 (chemical, physical, nutritional and social) in children, adolescents and adults are available. Primary duties may include building programming skills, laboratory skills, study design skills, data collection, data analysis, and manuscript preparation.
● You will advance translational children’s environmental health research including CEH risk communication, counseling, outreach and education, training, quality and process improvement efforts, evaluation and scholarly productivity. Collaborate with leading experts in the fields of environmental health, environmental pediatrics, toxicology, epidemiology, risk assessment and risk communication, and community engagement on important current and emerging environmental health issues. This includes: ○ Gaining expertise in risk assessment and risk communication and provide sound, evidence-based counseling about how to prevent and reduce environmental exposures to families and communities.
○ Participating in work on population-based environmental health interventions.
○ Participating in educational activities to expand knowledge in environmental public health.
○ Providing mentorship to trainees (students, residents) participating in elective programs.
○ Collaborating with community organizations and promote initiatives to improve the health of all NYS children
Other activities include attending and presenting your research at workshops, seminars, and conferences and learning grant writing skills. Support for attending data science workshops is provided. This position may include opportunities for domestic and international travel.
Qualifications: Training and research opportunities are available in epidemiology, data science, biostatistics, environmental health, exposure science, and/or child health research. Individuals should be highly motivated to studying 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. Lab-based research fellowships in exposomics, exposure biomarkers and epigenetics are also available.
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Strength Through Diversity
The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:
- Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.
- Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.
- Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.
We work hard to acquire and retain the best people and to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to professional advance. We share the belief that all employees, regardless of job title or expertise contribute to the patient experience and quality of patient care.
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Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 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 approximately 7,400 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 and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, 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. 14 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.
The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism.”
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