Title HMS - Postdoctoral Fellow in Health Care Policy - Statistical Methods School Harvard Medical School Department/Area Department of Health Care Policy Position Description
The Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School seeks a highly motivated postdoctoral fellow to join a PCORI-funded project developing new methods to improve the transparency of individualized treatment effect prediction. The fellow will work under the mentorship of Dr. Alex Luedtke and collaborate with an interdisciplinary team of statisticians, physicians, computer scientists, and health policy researchers.
The successful candidate will lead development of variable importance measures – including the design, implementation, and evaluation of new methods for explaining individualized treatment effect predictions and serving as author on methodological publications. Other work will include running simulation studies, applying the methods to electronic health records (EHR) and clinical trial datasets, and collaborating on dissemination through open-source R packages and associated tutorials.
This position provides an opportunity to produce high-impact methodological research while engaging in applied health policy contexts.
Basic Qualifications
Additional Qualifications
With this appointment, you are represented by the Harvard Academic Workers (HAW) – UAW for purposes of collective bargaining and matters affecting your compensation and working conditions.
Special Instructions
Required documents:
Please submit application documents through the ARIeS portal. Applications will be reviewed starting December 1, 2025, and on a rolling basis thereafter until the position is filled. Selected candidates will be invited for interviews involving a research presentation on past work.
Start date: The position is expected to start on or around July 1, 2026, with flexibility to start earlier.
Duration: This is a one-year term position from the date of hire, with the possibility of a second-year contingent upon work performance, business need, and continued funding to support the position.
Contact Information
Mary Hurley
Contact Email hurley@hcp.med.harvard.edu Salary Range
Information regarding postdoctoral fellow salary, which is determined by the number of years post PhD, can be found at https://postdoc.hms.harvard.edu/guidelines.
Minimum Number of References Required Maximum Number of References Allowed Keywords
statistics, biostatistics, computer science, economics, health care policy, causal inference, machine learning
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