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Northeastern University\u2019s Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute (SSEHRI), in collaboration with the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Department of Health Sciences, seeks a postdoctoral research associate, supported by our\u00a0National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences T-32 Training Program \u201cTransdisciplinary Training at the Intersection of Environmental Health and Social Science\u201d (pending final notice of award) which started in 2015 and is jointly run by SSEHRI and Silent Spring Institute. The Training Program includes postdocs in the social sciences and environmental health sciences, and doctoral students in Sociology and other fields, and prepares trainees to be future leaders in social science-environmental health science collaborations and community-based research.<\/p>\n
This is a two-year postdoctoral position, with the second year dependent on satisfactory performance.\u00a0<\/span>SSEHRI<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>has many funded projects, and aims to build a thriving space for collaborations between life sciences and social sciences that train scholars for interdisciplinary collaborations that effectively improve the study and remediation of environmental health questions. The postdoc will develop their own research in the social study of environmental health issues with the assistance of the Institute\u2019s interdisciplinary research group. The postdoc will have a regular mentor, opportunities for collaboration on existing research, involvement with other postdocs, multiple venues for presenting work in progress, the option to take or audit courses, and opportunities for guest lecturing.\u00a0The postdoc will mentor graduate and undergraduate students.<\/span><\/p>\n The Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute, at Northeastern since 2012, continues the legacy of the Contested Illnesses Research Group at Brown University, which began in 2000, trains graduate students and postdocs in community-based participatory research aimed at transforming and improving environmental health.\u00a0 By linking environmental health science, sociology, science and technology studies, and work with community-based organizations, SSEHRI develops novel approaches to studying environmental health questions. It currently has 6 core faculty members, 10 affiliated faculty, 2 postdocs, 13 doctoral students, 1 MPH student, and 5 undergraduate students.<\/p>\n Silent Spring Institute, with a staff of about 20, celebrated its 27th anniversary in 2021 as the nation\u2019s leading scientific research organization focused on achieving breast cancer prevention through environmental research and outreach programs. Silent Spring Institute\u2019s research focuses on breast cancer and environmental pollutants, especially hormone disruptors and animal mammary gland carcinogens. Silent Spring Institute develops and applies new technologies to identify safer chemicals and measure exposures. This is an opportunity to be part of a nationally recognized, innovative, mission-driven team.\u00a0 Silent Spring Institute\u2019s publications list is\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Both Silent Spring Institute and Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute have extensive collaborations with many breast cancer, environmental health, and environmental justice organizations.\u00a0The postdoctoral fellow will spend approximately 2\/3 of her\/his time at Northeastern and approximately 1\/3 at Silent Spring Institute. The postdoc will collaborate on one or more of several active grants, depending on training and experience. Work includes major participation in one of the three labs led by Core Faculty.<\/p>\n The\u00a0Water Equity Team<\/i>\u00a0(WET) Lab<\/b>\u00a0examines problems related to water resources from different environmental and social justice perspectives.\u00a0Because low-income communities and communities of color have historically endured the greatest exposure to environmental hazards associated with polluted waterways, unsafe drinking water, severe flood risk, and restricted access to recreational water amenities, funded by NSF, WET Lab studies how decisions by water management agencies affect water inequities in 8 major US cities; the public health consequences of water unaffordability; management and resilience to flood hazards; and associations between access to water-based recreational amenities and teenagers\u2019 emotional health.<\/p>\n \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The Wylie Lab<\/b>\u00a0investigates environmental injustice across the life cycle of oil and gas from production, transport, refining and storage, and toxicities of dowThe Wylie Lab seeks to investigate environmental injustice across the life cycle of oil and gas from production, to transport, refining and storage, to the toxicities of downstream products. We work collaboratively with community organizations, NGOs, environmental scientists and computer scientists to develop new methods for environmental justice research and corporate accountability. Currently we are working on ways to map the neurotoxic gas hydrogen sulfide using photographic paper and on ways to visualize, in real-time, water pollution from industrial outfalls. We are presently working with communities in Wyoming, Montana, Texas and Saskatchewan to analyze air quality impacts from oil and gas extraction. In 2014-2015 we worked with Pennsylvania\u2019s Environmental Health Project to assess their citizen science efforts to monitor particulate matter emissions from unconventional energy. In 2015 we worked on a successful campaign with the Southeast Environmental Task Force and Ban Petcoke to study and map piles of petcoke, a waste product from tar sands refining. In 2016-17 we worked with the Swinomish Reservation in Washington State to analyze air quality impacts from neighboring oil refining operations. Presently we work with Chelsea Massachusetts\u2019 environmental justice organization GreenRoots to study the environmental health impacts of their seven oil storage facilities. Our work is funded by the\u00a0Harvard School of Public Health\u2019s JPB Environmental Fellowship<\/a>, the Heinz foundation and Harvard and Boston Universities:\u00a0Center for Research on Environmental and Social Stressors in Housing Across the Life Course\u00a0<\/a>(CRESSH).<\/p>\n This position offers a competitive salary (standard NIH NRSA salary, which starts at $53,760 with 0 years post-PhD and increases with each year post-PhD) and benefits package.\u00a0The start date of this position is preferably September 1, 2021, but may be flexible. Review of applications will begin immediately and the search will remain open until the position is closed or filled. For additional information write Phil Brown at:\u00a0p.brown@northeastern.edu<\/a><\/p>\n To apply, please:<\/p>\n 1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Send an application packet containing a cover letter, a curriculum vitae, writing samples (published or unpublished), and graduate and undergraduate transcripts to Professor Phil Brown by email at\u00a0p.brown@northeastern.edu<\/a>\u00a0(put \u201cT32 postdoc\u201d in subject line).<\/p>\n\n