The Applied Psychiatric Epidemiology Across the Life course Lab (APEAL Lab), directed by Dr. Ian Colman at the University of Ottawa, is seeking applicants for a two-year post-doctoral fellowship focused on gender diversity and youth mental health. The fellow will lead quantitative research on factors that support mental health in transgender and gender diverse (TGD) youth, using data from large population-based surveys that include several hundreds of TGD respondents, allowing for exploration of intersectional dimensions. The fellow will also have the opportunity to collaborate with Dr. Alex Abramovich’s lab at the Institute for Mental Health Policy Research at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health who lead qualitative research on TGD youth and mental health. This project is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
Requirements include experience in the area of child and youth mental health, with an emphasis on psychiatric epidemiology. Candidates with a PhD (or defence scheduled in the coming months) related to public health, epidemiology, quantitative psychology or similar are invited to apply.
The postdoctoral fellow will work under the supervision of Dr. Ian Colman at the APEAL Lab, in an enriching, supportive, and inclusive environment (Lab values can be found here: http://www.psychepi.com/about/values-and-code-of-conduct/) . Applicants wishing to work from a remote location will be considered. The postdoctoral fellow will be expected to publish multiple first-author papers, and to become involved in grant preparation, data analysis, and knowledge translation activities.
Interested candidates should express interest by contacting Dr. Colman at icolman@uottawa.ca as soon as possible, and follow with their CV, research statement with summary of doctoral research and interests for future research, selected publications, and names of two referees.
