The Department of Bioethics (DBE), Clinical Center (CC), National Institutes of Health (NIH) invites
candidates with strong research credentials to apply for the position of Tenure Track investigator in the
Department of Bioethics (DBE) atthe NIH Clinical Center (CC), Bethesda, MD. The candidate is expected
to conduct original bioethics research and establish an independent research program with a focus on
ethics and health disparities to add a new significant and timely dimension to the Department’s research
portfolio that currently focuses on the Ethics of Research, Ethics of Genetics and Emerging Technologies,
Clinical Ethics, and Ethics and Health Policy. Disparities in health and access to health are widespread,
have serious consequences to individuals and public health, and often result from social and structural
inequities.
The incumbent will become part of an interdisciplinary group of bioethics scholars (including
clinical, legal, philosophical, social science, and scientific scholars) committed to interdisciplinary and
inter-institutional collaboration – across NIH Institutes and Centers and beyond. The incumbent will
have the opportunity to formally collaborate with the National Institute of Minority Health and Health
Disparities.
The incumbent will contribute to the development, implementation, and evaluation of high
quality educational and training programs for bioethics fellows and students as well as for the
NIH community of investigators, research staff, clinicians, and administrative and program staff,
and be an active participant in the Bioethics Consultation Service. The incumbent will serve as
an advisor to the Chief, Department of Bioethics, the NIH Clinical Center Director, NIH Institute
and Center leadership, and others on bioethical issues through consultation, participation in
institutional review boards, and participation on the NIH committees and task forces.

The Center for Biomedical Informatics and Data Science at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, led by Dr. Justin Starren, is seeking strong candidates for a postdoctoral fellowship position focusing on the socio-technical aspects of Clinical Research Informatics. 

This is a full-time position for an individual interested in developing research skills related to the human and organizational side of research computing.  A successful candidate could come from the technology side (e.g. informatics or data science) and be interested in increasing their understanding and skills related to the human and organizational issues, or they could come from a more qualitative or organizational side (e.g. health services research, public health, or bioethics) and be interested in strengthening their understand and skills related to technology. The funded fellow will actively participate in ongoing NIH and foundation funded studies.  

The Center for Bioethics and Social Justice (BSJ) at Michigan State University invites applications for a faculty position in bioethics, oriented toward social justice. This will be a full-time, fixed-term (non-tenure track), annual year appointment. Duties will include teaching, curriculum development, research and outreach activities.

BSJ resides in the College of Human Medicine (the College) at Michigan State University. The College uses the Shared Discovery Curriculum— a cutting-edge curricular model which eschews traditional disciplinary courses to instead integrate all necessary science education, and prioritize immersion in clinical experience across the curriculum. BSJ is tasked with developing and teaching bioethics as well as general oversight to ensure bioethics content integration.

BSJ also wishes to bolster its growing research portfolio in social justice-oriented bioethics, including externally-funded research. A successful candidate’s research could either be in bioethics education, or in some other area of social justice-oriented bioethics. A successful candidate will also have an interest in contributing to the outreach work of BSJ, such as hosting meetings with local community groups, and facilitating campus dialogue around bioethics and social justice.

The Center for Population-Level Bioethics (CPLB) at Rutgers University has an open rank faculty opening in ethics and population health. We are open to candidates with a wide range of empirical or normative scholarly interests that are salient to population-level bioethics including but not limited to research ethics with a population focus, health measurement, health disparities, ethics of population health, global justice, and environmental justice. We seek a creative faculty member who is motivated to advance the field of population-level bioethics through scholarship, service, and policy development; has the potential to develop and sustain an extramurally funded research program; contribute actively to their home school’s teaching mission using modern pedagogical techniques; and mentor graduate students and/or students in the health professions. The ideal candidate is an individual with an interdisciplinarily inclined program of research that is informed by the latest findings in disciplines relevant to the candidate’s interests—epidemiology, statistics, medicine, clinical trial methodology, implementation science, economics, law, sociology, or any field that can inform new and interesting things to say about macro-level bioethics.

The Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine invites applications for an open rank tenure-track/tenured faculty position to begin in early 2021. While we welcome all applications, we encourage applicants who have research interests in empirical bioethics with a focus on health and science policy implications to apply.

The program is for those seeking clinical experience in Medical Ethics. The Fellowship entails supervised clinical responsibilities for Ethics Consults at North Shore University Hospital, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Cohen’s Children’s Medical Center and Zucker Hillside Hospital. Academic work will include completion of a regional Bioethics course or fulfilling requirements for a Masters in Bioethics. A scholarly effort is expected in the performance of a research project. Additional responsibilities include preparation for Ethics Committee Meetings and for conference meetings and for conference presentations at various departments at the mentioned institutions and at Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. 

The Center for Bioethics at the Indiana University School of Medicine offers a two-year fellowship.

• Conduct qualitative and/ or quantitative research involving ethical issues raised by precision medicine and/ or electronic health information (clinical or research) (40% effort).  We are currently carrying out or developing projects related to ethics and implementation of learning healthcare systems, genetic testing for rare diseases, biobank consent and governance, and return of genetic results (esp. pharmacogenomics) to patients and research participants.
• Participate in other research projects and service activities at the IU Center for Bioethics, including as part of the BSAP program of the Indiana CTSI and the Indiana University Precision Health Initiative (40% effort).
• Contribute to the academic life of the IU Center for Bioethics, including project planning, informal and occasional undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, and the administration of related work at the Center (20%)

The Madeline Brill Nelson Chair in Ethics Education will act as a leader in bioethics scholarship and education at OHSUand will work to further OHSU’s mission of teaching, research, patient care,  outreach, and public service. The OHSU Center for Ethics is a 32 year old, nationally recognized,  interprofessional group of individuals seeking to advance bioethics in health care. Consistent with  all chair positions in the Center for Ethics in Health Care, the Madeline Brill Nelson Chair funds a 0.5  FTE position. 

The Division of Public Health Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis is currently seeking applications for a highly motivated Postdoctoral Research Scholar to support our research efforts on patient engagement and genomic characterization. This position involves working with a multidisciplinary team of researchers on a center grant to integrate patient engagement into studies on the return of genomic results among cancer patients, particularly those populations experiencing cancer disparities. The postdoctoral fellow will receive training in embedded ethics and utilize these skills throughout the center. (S)he will assist in developing, conducting, and analyzing participant interviews, analyzing quantitative data, and supporting other research activities throughout the center and the Division. This position will be ideal for a postdoctoral candidate who has experience or interest in building skills in cancer disparities, return of genomic results, patient engagement, and ethics. Applicants with interest and experience in cancer health disparities and genomic return of results will be prioritized. However, all applications will be considered. Applications are considered as they are received and on a rolling basis. ELIGIBILITY: Doctoral training and research experience in clinical settings, public health, behavioral sciences, medical ethics, epidemiology, dissemination and implementation science, or a related field. TO APPLY: Send by email to Dr. Bettina Drake at [email protected] and Dr. Graham Colditz at [email protected]: 1) a cover letter 2) curriculum vitae and 3) a list of 2-3 professional references

The Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine is hiring a full-time postdoctoral researcher with strong empirical skills to work on NIH-funded research examining ethical, legal, and social issues at the intersection of data sharing and privacy (including the use of genetic genealogy databases to solve crimes, the psychosocial and relational impacts of discovering new genetic relatives through direct-to-consumer genetic testing, and policy issues related to sharing genomic, neural activity, and health data to advance research and improve care). This is a non-laboratory research position. The postdoctoral researcher will be part of an interdisciplinary team of researchers led by Amy McGuire, JD, PhD, and Christi Guerrini, JD, MPH. For more information about Baylor College of Medicine and the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, visit our website at www.bcm.edu/ethics