The PRB conducts research to promote healthful behaviors and prevent or ameliorate disease during pregnancy, infancy, childhood and adolescence. PRB behavioral scientists conduct research to identify factors that explain health-related behaviors in mothers, children, and adolescents, and evaluate intervention strategies designed to alter health behavior and improve health. Study designs include surveys, efficacy and effectiveness trials, and demonstration and education projects. Postdoctoral and predoctoral fellowships are available for promising new scientists and qualified graduate students. Postdoctoral fellows collaborate as investigators on ongoing research and conduct independent research.
Initial appointment is for up to two years, with annual renewals for a maximum of five years.
Summer internships for undergraduate and graduate students are available on a competitive basis. The appointment will be at the level of a tenured investigator. The successful candidate will maintain an independent research program in statistics and develop a collaborative research program with investigators in the substantive fields that include perinatal epidemiology, maternal and child health and behavioral science. Applicants should have a doctoral degree in mathematical statistics or biostatistics with mathematical emphasis and must have an outstanding record of methodological research. The Biometry and Mathematical Statistics Branch of the Division of Epidemiology, Statistics and Prevention Research, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development is seeking a Mathematical Statistician.