The Mass General Brigham Department of Psychiatry has a full-time position available for a Research Scientist in the Center for School Behavioral Health (CSBH), aiming to transform youth behavioral health by advancing scalable, sustainable, and equitable prevention and early intervention strategies integrated into K-12 educational settings
Job Summary
The Mass General Brigham Department of Psychiatry has a full-time position available for a Research Scientist in the Center for School Behavioral Health (CSBH), aiming to transform youth behavioral health by advancing scalable, sustainable, and equitable prevention and early intervention strategies integrated into K-12 educational settings.
The Research Scientist role requires strong data processing and statistical analysis skills, independent work with minimal supervision, and responsibility for computational and data integrity needs, leading the programming team.
The successful candidate is anticipated to be appointed as an instructor at Harvard Medical School, with teaching/supervision responsibilities in psychometrics and quantitative methods for post-doctoral fellows, programmers, and clinical research coordinators.
Matching Summary
The Mass General Brigham Department of Psychiatry has a full-time position available for a Research Scientist in the Center for School Behavioral Health (CSBH), aiming to transform youth behavioral health by advancing scalable, sustainable, and equitable prevention and early intervention strategies integrated into K-12 educational settings.
Skills & Requirements
Must-have
strong data processing skills
statistical analysis skills
programming and managing analytic workflows
modern information security standards
clinical research experience
human subjects research federal regulations
Nice-to-have
willingness to learn
act professionally
communicate effectively
interest in school behavioral health
interest in working with human subjects
Key Requirements
Ph.D. in biostatistics, cognitive science, neuroscience, bioinformatics, data science, or related science
deep understanding of human subject research protections and federal regulations
strong computer and programming skills
scripting language experience (e.g. R, Python, MATLAB)