Vanderbilt University

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Vanderbilt University is seeking applications for one or two postdoctoral scholars in the area of LGBTQ+ economics, health economics, and policy to work with Professor Kitt Carpenter on a variety of projects related to same-sex marriage and LGBTQ+ health and economic outcomes to begin in Summer 2025 or earlier.

Responsibilities include:
1. Carrying out a full-time active research program in health economics and applied microeconomics, with a focus on LGBTQ topics.
2. Attending a weekly in-person professional development/seminar series on LGBTQ health inequities, policies, and populations at the Vanderbilt LGBTQ Policy Lab.
3. Attending weekly in-person professional developments and seminars of the Center for Research on Inequality and Health.
4. Attending weekly in-person seminars and work-in-progress talks of the Vanderbilt Economics Department.
5. Guest lecturing in courses related to health economics and LGBTQ inequities, policies, and populations, as appropriate.
6. Mentoring, with supervision from Professor Carpenter, undergraduate and graduate student research.

The one-year postdoctoral fellowships will begin 7/1/2025 (or possibly earlier if mutually agreeable), with an initial end date of 6/30/2026, and carry the possibility of a one-year renewal.

For full job description and application instructions go to: http://apply.interfolio.com/157815.

Applications will be reviewed immediately and until the position is filled.