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Job, Research, Call for Papers, and Funding Opportunities
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Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Behavioral Research in Technology and Engineering (BRiTE) Center at the University of Washington
This position will be dedicated to digital mental health research in West Africa.
Previous experience in mHealth for mental health and/or global mental health research would be particularly relevant for this opportunity. This is a fully-funded multi-year position with a clear trajectory to a faculty appointment, for successful candidates. The BRiTE Center (https://www.brite.uw.edu/) in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine (https://psychiatry.uw.edu/) is seeking a Postdoctoral Scholar interested in digital mental health technologies. Led by Dr. Dror Ben-Zeev, UW's Behavioral Research in Technology and Engineering (BRITE) Center is a robust, federally funded research center within the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. The BRiTE Center brings together a diverse group of researchers, clinicians, technologists, patients and mental health advocates with a common goal of improving the lives of those suffering with mental illness, their families, and communities. Harnessing the Pacific Northwest’s innovative spirit, we work with industry, healthcare systems large and small, and individuals invested in developing creative technologies to improve population mental health, in our lifetime. BRiTE is a highly collaborative, fast –paced, mission-driven center that conducts cutting-edge research designed to invent and re-invent the future of mental healthcare using digital technology.
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Post-Doctoral Fellowship Global Mental Health Implementation Science - Harvard Medical School
The study is led by Vikram Patel at Harvard Medical School and Steven Hollon (co-PI) at Vanderbilt University. This RCT seeks to compare a contextually adapted version of behavioral activation delivered by non-specialist health care workers versus antidepressant medication in the treatment of patients with major depressive disorder in primary care settings with the goal of developing and testing a precision treatment rule to identify the optimal treatment for a given patient. This RCT also seeks to assess the costs of optimal vs non-optimal treatment and conduct a cost-effectiveness analysis by comparing relative costs and effectiveness between those who were randomly allocated to their optimal treatment vs those who were randomly allocated to their non-optimal treatment based on the precision treatment rule.
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Harvard students - participate in the iWellness Study
Participate in the Harvard iWellness Study! This is a study being conducted at HUHS to evaluate innovative ways to support your mental health like using a mobile app. If you choose to participate, you will be randomly assigned to an app and asked to use it for 8 weeks. You will be compensated up to $30 ($10 for each survey you complete). This is in addition to care at HUHS. Visit iWellnessstudy.com to participate and learn more about the study. Contact Support@iWellnessStudy.com for more information.
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Apply for the Dr. Mario Pagenel Psychiatry Fellowship in Global Mental Health Delivery
The Dr. Mario Pagenel Fellowship in Global Mental Health Delivery provides an opportunity for career development in global mental health service delivery and research for post-graduate psychiatrists. Fellows develop expertise in the field while working with Partners In Health (PIH) and in collaboration with the Harvard Medical School Department of Global Health and Social Medicine in the Blavatnik Institute.
The Fellowship is a one to two year placement with a PIH sister organization in Haiti, Rwanda, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mexico, or Sierra Leone. By building capacity through the mobilization, training, and professional development of in-country health care providers, PIH and HMS seek to support locally feasible and sustainable structures for mental health care and, over time, to establish generalizable models for systems of mental health service delivery. The Fellowship offers a combined focus on clinical care, training and education, research and advocacy.
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Call for Papers: PLOS Medicine Special Issue on the COVID-19 Pandemic and Global Mental Health
The editors of PLOS Medicine together with Guest Editors Vikram Patel, Daisy Fancourt, Toshi A Furukawa, and Lola Kola announce a forthcoming special issue devoted to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on global mental health. The deadline is 15 July 2022.
For the purposes of the Special Issue, the term mental health is used in a multidisciplinary sense. Studies across disciplines including psychiatry and psychology, neuroscience, behavioural, developmental, and social science will all be considered, as will others where we feel they present a clinically meaningful advance. Areas of special interest include:
- Vulnerable populations and the pandemic’s impact on existing inequities in global mental health, including studies that provide novel insight into the extent of the mental health crisis (in terms of, e.g., severity and duration).
- Health system responses to increased demand for mental health care services, including work that addresses efforts to preserve continuity of care.
- Evaluations of policy interventions which may have had positive effects on mental health (e.g., the influence of cash transfers in alleviating mental ill health related to economic hardship) or harmful effects on mental health (e.g., school closures and lockdowns).
- Mental health consequences of the pandemic from a life course perspective, such as ecological data concerning the impact of school closures on child and adolescent mental health, through to the impact of social isolation on older or mobility-impaired adults.
- Public mental health, which goes beyond disease specific areas, to addressing ongoing day to day challenges of the pandemic at population levels and in public arenas (e.g., mental health in the workplace, schools’ mental health programmes, an agenda on social inclusion and social belongingness for older populations, and building resilience in young people).
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Permanent (tenured) Full Professor Post in Psychology available at Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
Due to substantial growth of our psychology department, we are recruiting a new and permanent (tenured) full Professor at the Psychology Department at Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom. We are looking for a strong candidate (publications, grants) in any area of psychology. Personally, I would like to encourage applications from those in the area of developmental psychology and mental health. The professorship is open to international applicants outside of Europe. Closing date is May 6th 2022. Details can be found here: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/COS372/professor-in-biological-and-experimental-psychology-teaching-and-research
3 Permanent Lecturer (Assistant Professor) Posts in Psychology available at Queen Mary University of London
Due to substantial growth of our department, we are recruiting three new and permanent Assistant Professors (Lecturers) at the Psychology Department at Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom. We are looking for strong candidates (publications, grants) in any area of psychology. Personally, I would like to encourage applications from those in the area of developmental psychology and mental health. The posts are open to international applicants outside of Europe. Closing date is April 29th. Details can be found here: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies/items/6891.html
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Integrating Mental Health Care into Health Care Systems in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) RFA-MH-22-130
Integrating Mental Health Care into Health Care Systems in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) RFA-MH-22-130
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites implementation research applications to develop, optimize, and test innovative theory-based strategies to integrate mental and physical health care within health care systems in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). This FOA aims to support innovative research for implementing, scaling up, and financially sustaining integrated mental health care models to ultimately increase demand and utilization, quality, access, and availability of mental health care. This FOA is also expected to contribute to the long-term goals of strengthening the sustainable research capacity in LMICs and enhancing the potential for multidirectional knowledge and the exchange of research advancements. NIMH encourages partnerships between institutions in LMICs and high-income countries (HICs).
Application due dates are June 22 and August 04, 2022
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Funding Opportunities in COVID-19 Mental Health Research
These Funding Opportunity Announcements aim to address urgent, time-sensitive mental health research questions related to COVID-19, including broader secondary impacts of the pandemic as well as research on the intersection of mental health, COVID-19, and HIV. Research supported will improve public health in the near term by informing responses to the current pandemic through 1) understanding mechanisms by which mental illness impacts SARS-CoV-2 morbidity and mortality, 2) exploring how COVID-19 contributes to incident mental illness or HIV-outcomes, 3) identifying modifiable targets uniquely or robustly implicated in the pandemic that are relevant to new and worsening mental illness, and 4) conducting mechanistic trials probing biological or behavioral processes of those targets that may be pursued in future mental health therapeutic development. Research is anticipated to be informed by and directed towards vulnerable populations based on evidence of preexisting and worsened health disparities.
Application due dates are April 25, August 25, and December 23, 2022 -- with a letter of intent requested 30 days prior to the application due dates.
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Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health in New Hampshire - Principal Implementation Scientist and Senior Faculty Member
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health in New Hampshire is hiring a principal implementation scientist and senior faculty member with a focus on mental health and or addiction. They welcome applicants with expertise in quantitative, qualitative and/or mixed methods. We offer a strong, multidisciplinary collaborative environment; access to rural practice-based research networks (mental health centers, primary care, child services, aging services) spanning three states; extensive clinical settings and modalities; and the research infrastructures of centers such as the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health, WRJ VAMC, and the Dartmouth Institute.
Note that the ideal candidate would be at the Associate Professor level or higher, have an established record of extramural funding, demonstrate a commitment to mentoring, be interested in collaboration, and have an outstanding publication record commensurate with their career stage. Please see job link below for more information.
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Harvard Graduate Student Research Assistant - Countdown Global Mental Health 2030
Professor Shekhar Saxena is seeking a graduate student research assistant to support a research project on a global framework for tracking the status of mental health worldwide—Countdown Global Mental Health 2030. GlobalMentalHealth@Harvard is a member of the consortium leading this initiative, along with WHO, UNICEF, United for Global Mental Health and Global Mental Health Peer Network. The research assistant would join a team of researchers and students at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School working to 1) develop an indicator set of mental health determinants and outcomes and 2) collecting data from secondary sources and analyzing indicators to provide insights on mental health and wellbeing.
- Continuing and conducting a review of available country-level indicators of mental health and its determinants
- Organizing and implementing an analysis plan for the data
- Drafting and leading sections of a summary report on the key determinants and indicators of mental health and wellbeing
- Additional analysis of macro- and micro-data, as needed
- Training and experience required:
- Bachelor’s degree or higher, with coursework and/or professional experience in health
- Experience compiling, cleaning, and organizing data
- Experience in quantitative data analysis and quantitative analysis software (e.g., R or Stata)
- Strong writing skills
- Strong personal initiative, attention to detail, flexibility, timeliness, and ability to work independent
The position will start immediately. We are seeking a student interested in working ~ 15-20 hours per week for about 6 months with the possibility to extend the position further contingent on project workload and availability. If interested, please email your resume or CV and a brief cover letter to Professor Shekhar Saxena at ssaxena@hsph.harvard.edu.
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Administrative Assistant - Research Program on Children and Adversity at Boston College School of Social Work
The Research Program on Children and Adversity (RPCA) at Boston College School of Social Work is seeking an Administrative Assistant to join our dynamic team! Led by Dr. Theresa S. Betancourt, Salem Professor in Global Practice, the RPCA is a global research project that aims to understand the protective processes that contribute to risk and resilience in the mental health and development of children and adolescents facing adversity in a variety of cultures and settings.
The RPCA Administrative Assistant supports all aspects of Dr. Betancourt's schedule, presentations, travel, and research summary reports. The Administrative Assistant works across all projects in the RPCA and delivers high level organization, leadership, operational support, cross-cultural communication with other University, RPCA, and global staff members. Some other duties might include posting on social media for the RPCA, making online flyers/posters for Global Webinars rooted in implementation science and mental health, copy editing grant proposals, and preparing documents on behalf of the RPCA.
A Bachelors is required for consideration. This position is a wonderful foot in the door to academia and how to be an effective leader in a fast-paced environment.
Please apply via email to Rachel Stram, Administrative Manager, <stramr@bc.edu>
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Clinical Research Assistant - McLean Hospital
Two positions available in the Ressler Neurobiology of Fear Laboratory at McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA is hiring a full-time clinical research assistant to conduct research with human subjects under the supervision of a Senior Research Assistant, Manager, or Principal Investigator. One position requires post-bac experience, the other doesn't. Apply here!
Our lab uses translational research to study trauma and PTSD. Methods include electroencephalography (EEG), fear conditioning, phlebotomy, psychophysiology (e.g., heart rate, blood pressure, skin conductance), and clinical interviewing.
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