Job Board Title:
Postdoc

Post Date
8/27/2026

Expiration Date
11/26/2026

Details:
The Haber Lab in the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard University
(https://www.haberlab.org/) is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher in social and
environmental epidemiology.

The broad area of research will use geospatial and geographic analysis to
understand the landscape of exposures that contribute to respiratory disease
burden, particularly asthma, in cities.

The successful candidate will work on a range of projects that focus on the social
and geographic determinants of asthma at the epidemiological level, using
geospatial analysis of city-wide datasets. These studies will examine the increased
risk that neighborhoods and air quality inside individual housing units contribute to
asthma burden in Boston and elsewhere. This line of research seeks to isolate factors,
such as indoor and outdoor air pollution, and poor housing conditions, in the social,
physical, and built environment that contribute to high asthma rates in US cities like
Boston.

Responsibilities:
- As a postdoc in the lab you will join, lead, and propose projects in the lab
which use geospatial approaches to analyze city-wide data. Typically, these
datasets will derive from electronic healthcare records and administrative
municipal data sources (e.g. housing code violations or inspection scores).

- You will collaborate closely with other data scientists, clinical allergists,
pulmonologists and immunologists to collect new data, generate hypotheses
and plan new analyses.

Qualifications:
- PhD or equivalent in public health, epidemiology, data science, machine learning,
data science, computational biology, computer science, statistics, mathematics,
or other quantitative field.

- Experience and/or training in geospatial analysis, Bayesian disease mapping and
other methods, spatial epidemiology

- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, experience presenting and
communicating research.
- Excellent problem solving and quantitative analysis skills

Employer:
Harvard University
Contact:
Adam Haber

Email:
ahaber@hsph.harvard.edu

Website:
www.haberlab.org

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