Postdoctoral Research Associate in Disparities in Heart Failure PH-288

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Description The Department of Epidemiology at the Brown University School of Public Health invites applications for a full-time Postdoctoral Research Associate position that will be supported by an NIH-funded R01 grant titled, Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Heart Failure: A Cross-Cohort Collaboration (MPIs: Drs. Charles Eaton, Chanelle Howe and Norrina Allen). This grant will evaluate the magnitude and potential causes of racial/ethnic and sex disparities in incident heart failure and its subtypes and their prognosis. The impact of hypothetical lifestyle and clinical risk factor interventions on reducing racial/ethnic disparities in developing heart failure will also be evaluated. In addition, unsupervised machine learning phenomapping techniques will be used to evaluate subtypes of heart failure and their prognosis, including models stratified by race/ethnicity. The Postdoctoral Research Associate will be affiliated with the Center for Epidemiologic Research at Brown and supervised by Dr. Chanelle Howe. The Postdoctoral Research Associate will receive mentorship and training in conducting heart failure disparities research and causal inference methods. The Postdoctoral Research Asso...