Postdoctoral Training and Opportunities

Postdoctoral associates and fellows are an essential part of scientific advancement and research. The Yale School of Public Health has an abundance of postdoctoral positions at any given time in multiple disciplines.

Following are some of our ongoing opportunities for early career researchers.

YSPH has several ongoing postdoctoral fellowship programs focused on training the next generation of researchers. For other grant-funded postdoctoral positions, please visit our Careers page.

• Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) - NIMH Interdisciplinary HIV Prevention Training Program
  With nearly 5000 new HIV infections occurring per day, and the epidemic negatively impacting the most vulnerable populations, resulting in health inequities, there remains a critical need to train investigators who are prepared to conduct primary and secondary prevention research in HIV. This training Program provides the strongest foundation of knowledge, skills, professional networking and experience to young investigators at the pre- and post-doctoral levels, who can establish and sustain careers as scientific investigators, contributing to advances in HIV prevention, specifically, and public health, in general.

• Health Policy and Management - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Training Program in Health Services Research
  This training program is designed to develop a cohort of young scholars capable of identifying timely research problems, creatively conceptualizing responses, applying cutting-edge research techniques and effectively guiding the translation of findings into policy and practice. Our trainees are prepared to tackle the complex ways in which contemporary health and health care problems transcend disciplinary boundaries. Their published work, both during and after completing the program, has had a demonstrable impact of health care, policy, and practice.

• Translational Alcohol Research Program (TARP)
  Alcohol use disorders (AUD) and alcohol-related liver disease (ALD) are major public health problems with substantial and yet rising levels of morbidity and mortality worldwide. The goal of the Translational Alcohol Research Program (TARP) is to facilitate the ability of emerging post-doctoral researchers to bridge the gap in the application of knowledge gained from basic to clinical and social behavioral science research in AUD and ALD. The TARP is designed to improve clinical treatment of AUD and ALD by increasing the availability of appropriately-trained young scientists who are conversant in basic and clinical sciences and able to comfortably traverse the translational gap between these sciences.

• The Yale Cancer Prevention and Control Training Program
  The Yale Cancer Prevention and Control (CPC) Training Program educates, trains, and mentors pre- and postdoctoral fellows in five thematic areas critical to CPC: cancer etiology, cancer outcomes, lifestyle behavioral interventions, implementation science, and community-engaged research. These five areas are critical domains in the spectrum of CPC research. They leverage our faculty's strengths and will ensure that T32 trainees with diverse interests will achieve pivotal growth through the program and become leaders in novel, impactful CPC research. Those interested in applying can contact melinda.irwin@yale.edu for more information.

• Training in Implementation Science Research and Methods
  Implementation science is the field that studies how to move evidence-based treatments, therapies, and techniques into clinics and hospitals quickly so that patients can benefit from them. Currently, there are not enough scientists in the field and it takes approximately 17 years for new treatments to be adopted by the medical community. The Yale School of Public Health Center for Methods in Implementation and Prevention Science (CMIPS) trains new scientists in implementation science. Through educational programs and research programs, we are training scientists to take better care of communities by directly improving health outcomes worldwide.

NIH’s John Fogarty International Center sponsors research training grants that provide funding to train researchers, building sustainable expertise in low- and middle-income countries. Over the life of these grants, over 200 public health professionals and researchers have received mentorship and training from Yale’s world-class faculty. Learn more about active training opportunities through YSPH below.

• Global Health Emerging Scholars Program (GHES)
  This global health research training fellowship through the Yale Institute of Global Health (YIGH) is at select institutions in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). The GHES program was established in 2012 and is comprised of four U.S. partner institutions – Yale University, the University of California at Berkeley, Stanford University, and the University of Arizona – that together have collaborations in 17 LMICs representing Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, South and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and Oceania. The program is designed for pre-and post-doctoral trainees from the U.S. and post-doctoral trainees from collaborating LMICs who are dedicated to pursuing a career in global health and want to gain a solid scientific research foundation in a collaborative environment to develop into productive, independent researchers in global health. GHES offers hands-on opportunities to conduct research projects relevant to the health priorities of stakeholders and partners at established medical and research institutions and project sites in collaborating LMICs while being mentored by dedicated experts.
• Georgian Biostatistics in Implementation Science Fogarty Training Program (GIFT)
  This interdisciplinary training initiative is designed to strengthen research capacity in HIV implementation science and biostatistics in Georgia (country). This program collaborates with Ilia State University in Georgia and the Yale School of Public Health. The GIFT Fellowship is designed to accelerate scientific innovation, enhance public health research capacity, and strengthen the implementation of evidence-based interventions in Georgia. By fostering international collaboration and knowledge exchange, the program aims to produce skilled researchers and leaders in HIV implementation science who can contribute to global health advancements.
• Center for Implementation Science Malaysian Implementation Science Training Program (MIST)
  The primary goal of the Malaysian Implementation Science Training (MIST) program is to build local capacity in HIV implementation science by establishing a training program at the Universiti Malaya (UM) in partnership with Yale University's School of Medicine and School of Public Health. This initiative is driven by the need to address Malaysia’s evolving HIV epidemic—marked by increasing incidence, uneven antiretroviral therapy (ART) coverage, and significant challenges among key populations vulnerable to HIV. MIST adapts a collaborative framework by leveraging longstanding partnerships between UM and Yale, integrating expertise from both institutions. In addition, it involves key Malaysian stakeholders such as the Ministry of Health and other local NGOs to ensure the training is contextually relevant and addresses real-world challenges.