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The Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy is responsible for clinical ethics services at several affiliated hospitals, and so preference will also be given to applicants with experience in hospital ethics processes, including consultation, policy creation, review, and education. To build on the Institute’s three decades of work in health information technology, the ideal candidate will expertise in biomedical informatics, including artificial intelligence, and familiarity with academic medical center operations, including clinical, research and public health informatics.

The Department of Health Policy & Behavioral Sciences at the School of Public Health at Georgia State University is seeking a post-doctoral scholar to conduct research on the intersection of policy, law, ethics, and data sharing. This postdoc will join Prof. Jalayne Arias’ research team, whose interdisciplinary work focuses on policy, ethical, and legal issues related to Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, aging, and neuroscience. Prof. Arias and her team are launching a new and exciting grant to optimize data sharing practices among ADRD researchers.

PROJECT NARRATIVE The goal of the proposed research is to investigate how clinical genomic sequencing impacts families of pediatric patients. This research will develop an empirically informed framework of normative values important to families of pediatric patients, including ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI), which will then be used to elicit preferences for features of sequencing from a nationally representative sample of parents in the US.