Many opportunities are available.

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We currently have openings in our Survey Operations Center (SOC) and in locations across the country for research project assistants and field interviewers to work on important national studies in areas such as health care, education, disability, nutrition, and other related topics.

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The Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at the University of Connecticut invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow position beginning in the Summer or Fall of 2021. The mission of the Rudd Center is to promote solutions to childhood obesity, poor diet, and weight bias through research and policy. This is a full time, annually renewable position with a maximum duration of 2 years. This Postdoctoral Fellow will contribute to research on community-based nutrition interventions, food insecurity, the charitable food system, federal food programs, and the health care system under Dr. Marlene Schwartz. Responsibilities include writing scientific papers; quantitative and qualitative data collection; community engagement throughout the research process; data analyses; literature reviews; and grant writing.

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The Tufts Institute for Global Obesity Research (TIGOR) announces a fellowship for research on any aspect of obesity relating to the health of underrepresented groups.

Obesity continues to disproportionately affect certain racial and ethnic groups—particularly Black Americans and Hispanics/Latinos—and individuals with low socioeconomic positions. Research directed towards supporting improvements in obesity prevention and treatment is urgently needed. Tufts University has launched a cross-university institute, TIGOR, to advance obesity science for reducing the prevalence of obesity in national and international populations. This new fellowship will focus on clinical, translational, policy, or community-based research addressing obesity in underrepresented groups and issues of obesity-related disparities and inequities. A strong mentoring committee consisting of obesity experts in intervention science, epidemiology, population health, and the biology of obesity will mentor the chosen candidate in their specialization area, providing opportunities for first author publications and collaborations. Major emphasis will be placed on gaining skills for a successful independent research career, including leading original analyses and manuscripts, and other career development activities. Although the scholar will be appointed within the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, they may affiliate with any of Tufts schools, including Arts & Sciences, Engineering, Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, and the Fletcher School. This fellowship is open to postdoctoral scholars, and MD fellows.

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Georgetown University Law Center’s O’Neill Institute for National & Global Health Law is seeking a Program Coordinator to support the Institute’s Global Health Politics & Policy Initiative (GHPP). These initiative is engaged in advancing human rights and public health through research, policy tracking, capacity building, working with partners primarily in low- and middle-income countries. The position will be responsible for assisting with day-to-day operations of both Initiatives and enabling smooth functioning of their respective administrative and programmatic needs.

The Program Coordinator will help manage Initiative projects, event and resources, and will collaborate daily with Initiative, Institute and University staff, as well as partners from around the globe. This position will report to the Initiative Director and the Executive Director. The Program Coordinator will work out of the O’Neill Institute’s offices on the Georgetown University Law Center campus in Washington, D.C, and receive a competitive salary, outstanding benefits, and terrific colleagues.

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The Foundation for Food & Research Agriculture Research Fellowship Program funds up to 48 graduate students over three years using an interdisciplinary approach to career readiness. Fellows work with university and industry representatives as well as their peers to conduct urgent research and engage in professional development.

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The Tufts Institute for Global Obesity Research (TIGOR) announces a fellowship for research on any aspect of obesity relating to the health of underrepresented groups.

Obesity continues to disproportionately affect certain racial and ethnic groups—particularly Black Americans and Hispanics/Latinos—and individuals with low socioeconomic positions. Research directed towards supporting improvements in obesity prevention and treatment is urgently needed. Tufts University has launched a cross-university institute, TIGOR, to advance obesity science for reducing the prevalence of obesity in national and international populations. This new fellowship will focus on clinical, translational, policy, or community-based research addressing obesity in underrepresented groups and issues of obesity-related disparities and inequities. A strong mentoring committee consisting of obesity experts in intervention science, epidemiology, population health, and the biology of obesity will mentor the chosen candidate in their specialization area, providing opportunities for first author publications and collaborations. Major emphasis will be placed on gaining skills for a successful independent research career, including leading original analyses and manuscripts, and other career development activities. Although the scholar will be appointed within the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, they may affiliate with any of Tufts schools, including Arts & Sciences, Engineering, Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, and the Fletcher School. This fellowship is open to postdoctoral scholars, and MD fellows.

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The University of Minnesota is conducting a national search for a new dean of the School of Public Health.

PH faculty, staff, students, and external stakeholders will have opportunities to provide input on the position profile and search process.

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The occasional health educator delivers consistent, high quality health education to children preK-12th grade and adults. The Poe Center has curriculum for five broad health education topics: general health, family life, dental health, substance use prevention and nutrition/physical activity. This position would serve in all five program areas, although this position will primarily focus on nutrition, exercise science and/or cooking programs.

The health educator assists in the research, design and development of health education curriculum, evaluation instruments and supplemental materials. The health educator is responsible for day-to-day responsibilities related to the delivery of instructional programs at the Poe Center and offsite, including teacher training, community outreach and development and maintenance of resource materials.

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The Implementation Science Core within the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior within the Alpert Medical School of Brown University is seeking applications for an Assistant of Associate Professor faculty position.

The Implementation Science Core in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior was launched in 2018 and collaborates with the other Cores within the Department, including the Quantitative Science Program (QSP) and Qualitative Science and Methods Training Program (QSMTP), to foster the translation, spread, and scale-up of evidence-based practices into routine clinical care. The Implementation Science Core provides three key services to the broad Brown University Community: Dissemination and Implementation (D&I) science consultation; grant preparation guidance and serving as expert Co-Investigators/Mentors; and D&I-focused educational activities. Consultation services include regular office hours for one-on-one mentorship indissemination and implementation (D&I) science models, theories and frameworks to guide studies and qualitative and quantitative methods specific to D&I science research questions. Implementation Science Core faculty may also provide individual grant preparation consultation/serve as expert Co-Investigators or Mentors on both NIH R-type or NIH/VA Career Development Awards focused on implementation science. Finally, core faculty provide D&I workshop trainings, including a six-week fundamentals of D&I science series, intermediate D&I intensive workshop courses, D&I educational activities for pre-doctoral (clinical psychology residents) and post-doctoral trainings (T32 fellows), and coordination of Grand Rounds lectures from renowned D&I scientists from across the country.

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The Department of Health Science, College of Human Environmental Sciences at The University of Alabama seeks candidates for a nine-month, tenure track position as Assistant Professor of Health Education and Promotion. The successful candidate will be expected to conduct independent research and seek external research funding. The candidate will teach undergraduate and graduate courses in one or more of the following areas: health disparities, community health, health behavior theory, health communication, health education interventions, program planning, program evaluation, research methods, and epidemiology.

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The Staff Attorney works with the rest of the legal team and Legal Director to develop and prosecute cases, both as lead counsel and in partnership with other attorneys. The Staff Attorney will be responsible for developing, coordinating, and pursuing strategic litigation in federal and state courts on an ever-expanding variety of cutting-edge food and environmental issues, in support of CFS’s overall mission and its specific program areas.

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Edelman is seeking an Executive Vice President/Managing Director of Public Affairs. You should be a seasoned leader with a strong public policy/communications/integrated marketing background in either/or a leading F&B company, a leading public affairs/communications agency with a proven track record of success. You should have a strong understanding of the new business process and a natural ability to find and convert new business.

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This position is responsible for planning, developing, executing, and evaluating the communications plans and marketing collateral to support sales, marketing and programs of the School Marketing team. This will include: School marketing sales platform, Fuel up to Play 60 (FUTP 60) youth wellness program, school stakeholder engagement efforts such as farm to school initiative, 1% flavored milk campaign and additional youth wellness projects as needed. This position requires a strong understanding of communication, sales and marketing principals along with a creative and collaborative approach to execution. Agency experience preferred. This position will require 25% travel.

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Child Trends is seeking a Director for the Education program area at Child Trends. Child Trends’ education team strives to identify and support the educational policies, programs, and structures that create positive conditions for learning that help youth of all backgrounds flourish throughout their education and beyond. The team’s current areas of research priorities include school climate, school discipline, school health and wellness (including mental health), educational equity (including for LGBTQ youth), and post-secondary climate and supports.

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The Advisor, Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning (MERL) works with staff across the Department of Global Health (DGH) and with country office staff to provide technical assistance to projects including design and oversight of performance monitoring, adaptive management and learning strategies, data management information systems, assessments, implementation research, evaluation, and program learning. You will provide MERL support across various thematic areas spanning reproductive, maternal newborn and child health (RMNCH), nutrition, WASH/IPC, and community health systems, fostering relationships across the DGH MERL team, and the agency’s Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, Learning and Accountability working group to contribute to the agency’s approach in research, monitoring, evaluation and learning.

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The State Advocacy Manager will support Share Our Strength and its mission to end childhood hunger and poverty in America by assisting with state advocacy and government relations efforts. The State Advocacy Manager will work with the Advocacy Team to build out state and local relationships, develop strategies for engaging key stakeholder groups, manage advocacy efforts in priority states, and identify and work with the team to create action plans around new policy opportunities.

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The Policy and Sustainability intern will be responsible for supporting the Science and Technology, and/or Legislative and Regulatory Affairs teams in developing strategies for advocacy on behalf of the PMA membership and the industry. These teams work to ensure that the regulatory and legislative stakeholders, PMA’s global membership, allied industries, and consumers are well informed about the best decisions they can make to grow a healthier world, minimize risks of food-borne illness, put in place metrics-driven sustainability initiatives, eliminate barriers to trade, support predictability in labor availability and make modern technologies available to the producers and accepted by consumers.

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The Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning (MERL) Advisor will oversee a learning agenda for a family planning project focused on young first-time parents, driving qualitative and quantitative research components. You will lead two rounds of a qualitative evaluation that uses realist evaluation approaches; work with country teams to implement project monitoring systems; document and apply implementation learning for program improvements; liaise with the external research partner in support of an impact evaluation; and contribute to knowledge documentation and sharing.

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Within the Market Access and Regulatory Affairs (MARA) department at the U.S. Dairy Export Council, provide support and coordination for projects dealing with technical services (dairy science/technology and testing methods of dairy products). Interact with USDEC staff, members, offices, dairy/international organizations, and consultants to ensure information requests are processed in a timely and accurate manner.

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The Senior Specialist, Goal and Performance Management (GPMU) supports the Director in budgeting, reporting and analysis, and leads management of the Prospect Management System for the Resource Development division. You will help monitor and analyze at the financial (revenue), business (KPIs), and donor levels to ensure that Resource Development is well- positioned and on track to meet annual and strategic plan goals.

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Save the Children is seeking a Chief of Party (COP) for an anticipated USDA McGovern Dole Food for Education and Children Nutrition Program in Liberia. The COP, a senior leadership position, will provide overall strategic direction in the design, management, implementation and overall quality assurance of the project. S/he will also provide technical assistance on food security, hunger reduction, literacy improvement, primary education and community participation. The COP will be Save the Children’s primary point of contact with USDA. S/he will collaborate with the Ministries of Education, Ministry of Health and other critical partners to provide high-level support for effective capacity building at the local level and sustainability of the project interventions. The COP will oversee a team of experts and support staff, prepare reports and annual operating plans, align project initiatives with in-country priorities and ensure the program is compliant with USDA and Save the Children’s regulations.

The project is designed to align closely with the current objectives of the Liberian government. Specifically, the project goals will work with the government by initiating a school-feeding policy where partners must adhere to the planning, implementation and management of the National School Feeding Program. There are also strong linkages to the school garden component in country which encourages the Home-Grown School Feeding Program.

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An outstanding candidate is sought to work on an original research project supported by the National Institute of Health (NIH/NHLBI R01 Award) entitled “Cost-Effectiveness of Health System and State-Level Strategies to Improve Diet and Reduce Cardiometabolic Diseases (CMD)” as part of the multi-year, multi-grant Food-PRICE project. The aims of the overall project are to: (1) estimate health impacts, costs, cost-effectiveness, and effects on disparities of specific health system strategies to improve diet and reduce CMD; (2) estimate health impacts, costs, cost-effectiveness, and effects on disparities of specific state-level policies to improve diet and reduce CMD; (3) assess administrative and legal feasibility of health system and state strategies to improve diet and reduce CMD; and (4) disseminate top findings from the prior period, related grants, and this new work to relevant stakeholders in key legislative, agency, and advocacy positions.

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At KidsGardening, we value inclusion, compassion, humility, and optimism. We are looking for a team player excited to advance KidsGardening’s efforts to create opportunities for all children to learn, play, and grow through the garden. KidsGardening provides garden grants and original educational materials to more than 2.6 million kids across the country.

We are seeking an Education Specialist to serve as a youth gardening and garden-based learning expert responsible for co-developing and implementing KidsGardening’s educational content strategy as well as supporting youth garden grant administration and the Kids Garden Community.

This is a contracted position at 20-30 hours per week with the potential to develop into a full-time staff position in 2022.

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The School of Public Health (SPH) at San Diego State University (SDSU) seeks an Assistant Professor with expertise in Dissemination and Implementation Science (D&I) in public health with a focus on the Black, African American, AfroLatinx, African immigrant/refugee or African diaspora populations in the U.S. This new faculty member will join a vibrant faculty and school that offers degree programs for undergraduate, masters, and doctoral programs. The faculty member will teach, develop/maintain an independent program of research, and obtain extramural funding. Additional responsibilities include curriculum development, thesis and dissertation supervision, and field practice supervision.

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The Director of Native/Tribal Partnerships will deepen the organization’ engagement with and understanding of Tribal/Native communities facing food insecurity, serve as the internal subject matter expert and resource leader to provide added capacity and expertise on the concerns, unique challenges and experiences of Native and Tribal communities, ensure that Feeding America’s Native American strategy is elevated and incorporated into the network and national office through its systems, tools, policies, structures, and practices, and serve as a member of the Equity and Programs Leadership Team.

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CAFS is now inviting eligible candidates to apply for a two-year fellowship from August 2021 through July 2023. The fellowship combines the opportunity to pursue an LLM degree in Food and Agricultural Law from one of the leading environmental law programs in the nation with the opportunity to work on food and agricultural law projects alongside experienced environmental, agricultural, and food law practitioners and students. The fellow will receive a tuition waiver for our LLM in Food and Agriculture degree as well as a $35,000 annual stipend.

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The Green Heart Project seeks an experienced leader to manage a team of staff and volunteers in the maintenance, improvement, and expansion of its network of farms and gardens across the Charleston area, with a headquarters at the new ½-acre Urban Farm at Enston Home in Downtown Charleston. The ideal candidate has knowledge, experience, and skill in organic fruit and vegetable production, a passion for working with young people and volunteers, and a demonstrated ability to work effectively within a close-knit team.

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Individual scholarships range in value from $500 to $10,000 each. The total amount and number of Foundation scholarships awarded each year is determined by fundraising efforts and investment returns on scholarship funds.

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To promote the March of Dimes public policy agenda related to public health programs that improve the health of pregnant women, infants and children. The Deputy Director of Federal Affairs for Public Health will lead in developing, implementing, and carrying out March of Dimes’ federal advocacy activities related to public health agencies, authorizations, and appropriations.

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The Director is primarily responsible for supporting the mission of the Center for Public Health by serving as a leader with a proven track record in health policy including healthcare access, delivery, and disease prevention. The leader has experience engaging on broad policy issues including engagement with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, state leaders in health and private sector to develop policy solutions to advance the health and being of individuals and their communities.

This position requires an ability to manage a portfolio of programs and projects consistent with our areas of focus within the organization. The role includes representing the Center for Public Health at conferences and meetings and supporting events programming. The Director works with internal staff to bring the Center’s programs to targeted external audiences and building communities around our areas of focus to move from ideas to implementation.

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CSPI offers internships for a small number of qualified students in undergraduate, graduate, law, and medical schools each summer and during the school year. We also consider post graduates. Applications are considered on a rolling basis until all positions have been filled.

Our 10-week internships are unpaid, and can be full-time or part-time. The specific dates of an internship are flexible and depend on our needs and the applicant’s schedule. CSPI offers a collegial work environment and flexible schedule to accommodate your academic responsibilities. If your school offers academic credit for internships, we will work with you to meet your school’s requirements. We will also reimburse you up to $5/day for commuting expenses.

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The Manager, Capacity Building Analytics will leverage data to advance Feeding America’s provision of capacity building services and allocation of cash and in-kind resources to network members in ways that achieve more equitable outcomes for people facing hunger. This position drives data-based decision making to support those critical functions that aim to build sustainable capacity at food banks and improve food security for everyone struggling with hunger across America, and in particular for people and communities most disproportionately impacted by food insecurity.

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The Institute for Research and Education to Advance Community Health (IREACH) at Washington State University is currently recruiting for several positions. Join a group of faculty and staff committed to improving health through community-based participatory research for American Indian, Alaskan Natives, Pacific and Hawaiian Islanders, and other underserved communities in both urban and rural settings.

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As a junior financial analyst, you may be involved in all stages of project development as part of a project team. Interns also work on tasks in any stage of the origination process for three to six transactions, depending on the number of transactions that a project team is involved in.

Reviewing applications for financing and financial statements; Building or analyzing models of projected project cash flows; Researching various policy issues; Preparing country economic and political risk analyses; Preparing credit reviews of outstanding loans; Collaborating with Investment Officers to present the proposed loan to an approval committee; Working with members of other departments to receive required policy clearances; and Working with a project team to construct term sheets, participate in negotiations on loan agreement terms, or assist in the processing of disbursement requests.

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As a junior financial analyst, you may be involved in all stages of project development as part of a project team. Interns also work on tasks in any stage of the origination process for three to six transactions, depending on the number of transactions that a project team is involved in.

Reviewing applications for financing and financial statements; Building or analyzing models of projected project cash flows; Researching various policy issues; Preparing country economic and political risk analyses; Preparing credit reviews of outstanding loans; Collaborating with Investment Officers to present the proposed loan to an approval committee; Working with members of other departments to receive required policy clearances; and Working with a project team to construct term sheets, participate in negotiations on loan agreement terms, or assist in the processing of disbursement requests.

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The Senior Program Analyst will be a member of NACCHO’s Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health team, which aims to strengthen the capacity of local health departments to effectively ensure and assess the health of birthing people, parents, children, and adolescents by providing learning opportunities, developing tools and resources, providing technical support, and facilitating peer exchange. The program contributes to NACCHO’s overall mission to be a leader, partner, catalyst, and voice for local health departments.

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The Project Director, Advancing Family Economic Mobility will provide both strategic oversight and day-to-day management of APHSA’s Advancing Family Economic Mobility (AFEM) Project. The Project Director will serve as the lead project manager, ensuring delivery of outcomes associated with the AFEM grant, including workplan and timeline management, teaming with APHSA staff and consultants on delivery, compliance with grantor fiscal and reporting requirements. Additionally, this staff person will be lead facilitator of national and regional Economic Mobility learning communities, serve as liaison with state and federal partners around Learning Community activities, lead development of knowledge products, and produce webinars and other relevant content. The Project Director will proactively lift state and local policies and practices from the AFEM project into APHSA’s broader portfolio of work advancing social and economic mobility through systems alignment and state and local innovation. The Project Direct will support the Sr. Director in developing proposals to support strategic priorities, managing relationships with donors and federal partners, and representing APHSA’s work through webinars, presentations, and written content.

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TNFP is seeking a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) who is thoroughly committed to TNFP’s mission and understanding of the interconnection of social justice and food justice. Reporting to the Board of Directors, the CEO will have overall strategic and operational responsibility for TNFP staff, programs, and expansion and execution of its mission. The CEO should be a proven leader and have exhibited maturity and management experience leading in the nonprofit sector.

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The Program Officer II will provide operational and communication support to the National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research (NCCOR). NCCOR brings together the nation’s leading research funders—the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), and U.S Department of Agriculture (USDA)—to address the problem of childhood obesity in America. In 2012, NCCOR was selected by then HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius for an HHSinnovates Award. NCCOR also received an NIH Director’s Award in 2011. FHI 360 supports the Collaborative by conducting strategic planning, communications, coordination, and evaluation activities.

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The Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Science at Utah State University invites applications for a 9-month, tenure-track faculty position (60% research, 35% teaching, and 5% service) at the Assistant Professor level with research and teaching interests in the area of human nutrition.

Estimated start date August 1, 2021.

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Associates are professional staff responsible for facilitating and supporting the execution of work. They perform a wide range of activities that are specific to their role. Associates work in the Foundation’s Princeton, N.J. office.

The associate will support the Global Ideas for U.S. Solutions team and work closely with the senior director and team members to assist in program development and management, as well as team strategy and functioning. As a relatively new team at RWJF, the associate will assist in strengthening both operational and programmatic approaches to global learning.

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The Department of Neurology at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center is establishing a new division of Public Health Research and Epidemiology. This new division will be focused on research into health disparities in Neurology, strategies to optimize and implement the delivery of high quality neurological services and care, and the identification of environmental factors and modifiable behaviors that impact the health of individuals with neurological disorders. The faculty and staff of this division will include physician scientists, research scientists, epidemiologists, resource planning analysts, program managers and data analysts. The division will be closely allied with The Center for the Advancement of Team Science, Analytics, and Systems Thinking in Health Services and Implementation Science Research (CATALYST). We are currently recruiting junior and senior faculty to the division, including a division director.

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The Hudson Valley Farm Hub is seeking a talented Farm Manager who shares their vision for an equitable and resilient food system. They seek someone who has demonstrated success as a farmer, who enjoys being part of a dynamic and collaborative team, and who will help implement farm operations that are productive and efficient and that foster a culture of learning, appreciation, and inclusivity.

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So, are you ready to work for the largest voluntary health organization dedicated to fighting heart disease, stroke and other cardiovascular diseases?

Preferred Qualifications Advanced degree in Public Health, Epidemiology or related Health or Medical Research.

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The Graduate Student Research Assistant would be responsible for participating in research projects related to projects focused on studying the outcomes of interventions designed to reduce disparities in health, healthcare, and research engagement and to address the underlying causes of such disparities.

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REAP Food Group, based in Madison, WI, is inviting applications for a Farm to School Director, a role that will bring more healthy, WI-grown, and culturally appropriate food to children in K-12 settings, and provide educational resources around food and agriculture that reinforce our organizational values of equity and inclusivity. This is a full-time position.

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The Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, in conjunction with the Department of Population & Data Sciences, at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center is seeking multiple scientific investigators to join their dynamic research program in Population Science and Cancer Control. The Center is particularly interested in applicants with innovative, independent and collaborative research programs in biomarker validation, obesity and metabolic syndrome, molecular/cancer epidemiology, and cancer care delivery across the cancer control continuum.

Applicants should hold a doctoral degree in behavioral or biological science, bioinformatics or biostatistics, communication, epidemiology, health services, psychology, or public health. Cancer Center leadership will consider interested and qualified senior investigators for leadership positions.

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The Food Policy & Planning Division oversees the Baltimore Food Policy Initiative (BFPI) and uses food as a catalyst to address health, economic, and environmental disparities in Healthy
Food Priority Areas, areas where residents face compounded challenges in accessing healthy foods. We are currently seeking qualified individuals to fill our Food Resilience Planner
position and will function as the lead on Food Resiliency.

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Primary instructional duties may include introduction to public health nutrition, lifecycle nutrition for public health nutritionists, nutritional epidemiology, supervising capstone projects, and mentoring students at the graduate level. Successful applicants will have a focus on teaching excellence in both the traditional and online environments. Faculty members are expected to maintain scholarly activity as well as participate in service activities at the program, department, college, university, profession, and community levels. Responsibilities also include advising, coaching, and mentoring students.

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Responsibilities will include teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in nutrition and foods, mentoring graduate and undergraduate students in research, capstone projects, and career planning. Faculty members are expected to maintain an active program of scholarship as well as participate in service activities at the program, department, college, university, profession, and community levels. Successful applicants will have a focus on teaching excellence in both the traditional face to face and online environments. Responsibilities also include advising, coaching, and mentoring students.

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The Office of Community Engagement within Stanford School of Medicine is seeking a Social Science Research Professional 1 to serve as a Research Coordinator who will be an active contributor to an array of research projects with important public health impact. Duties may include: meeting planning support, coordinating research activities with internal and external partners for recruitment, enrollment, data gathering, and administering survey instruments, while exercising independent initiative and judgment. The role requires a high degree of organization, continuous exercise of independent initiative and judgment, strong ethic of collaboration, and exceptional, interpersonal skills.

This is an ideal position for an individual with a BA or Master’s degree in a relevant field such as public health, health care management, health services research, sociology, or anthropology, interested in advancing toward higher level training, who has a passion for improving health equity in the United States.

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Chef Ann Foundation is hiring for an Administrative Associate to provide support to all aspects of the organization with a focus on administrative support for the CEO and COO, program and development support and grant writing.

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The Director of Health and Wellness will be an experienced nonprofit leader. Reporting to the VP of Program, the Health and Wellness Director is responsible for developing and implementing all wellness programming and leading the team responsible for their integration into campaign strategy as well as promoting Dignity and Power NOW’s approach to the broader community of funders, movement leaders, and organizers. The Director of Health and Wellness role requires an individual who embodies, and is able to articulate healing justice and
transformative justice practices as well as the abolitionist framework. This role also requires an individual who understands and is passionate about the mission and vision of the organization, exemplifies DPN core values, and can articulate DPN’s mission on a local, regional and national basis. The successful candidate will help create and maintain new and existing relationships with coalition partners, external alliances, etc.

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The Nutrition Policy Institute (NPI) is a research center within the Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of California. NPI conducts and translates policy-relevant research to transform environments for healthy children, families, and communities. Our work focuses on increasing equity and sustainability in food systems and food and nutrition programs and policies at the local, state, and national levels. We work with multiple partners and funders to examine ways to ensure children, families, and communities have access to the financial, social, and physical resources they need to secure an adequate and healthy diet and to be physically active.

We are looking for a Project Policy Analyst to support study design, data collection and analysis, and overall project management for multiple studies, including: 1) an evaluation of a school district’s transition to freshly prepared and sustainably served school lunches; 2) evaluations of water promotion in lieu of sugary beverages in school and childcare settings; and 3) research to inform improvements to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC).

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The Hudson Valley Farm Hub is seeking a talented Farm Manager who shares their vision for an equitable and resilient food system. They seek someone who has demonstrated success as a farmer, who enjoys being part of a dynamic and collaborative team, and who will help implement farm operations that are productive and efficient and that foster a culture of learning, appreciation, and inclusivity.

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The Senior Development and Operations Officer is a new position at Trust for America’s Health, created in light of the increasing growth of the organization’s activities and the diversity of its
funding. It includes providing sophisticated administrative and financial operations oversight.  The ideal candidate will be a forward-looking and flexible thinker with the ability to quickly
gather and synthesize information for the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, as well as the staff and Board of Directors, to drive rigorous planning and decision-making
processes. The Senior Development and Operations Officer will demonstrate superior relationship building, leadership, and diplomatic skills.

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The North Carolina Farmworker Health Program (NCFHP), within the Office of Rural Health, NC Department of Health and Human Services, is seeking two temporary employees to join the program’s COVID-19 response team. The vacancies are full-time temporary positions beginning as soon as possible through December 31, 2021. The primary purpose of this position is to support the North Carolina Farmworker Health Program’s vaccination and COVID response efforts among the farmworker population.

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Ripple Effect works with federal, private, and non-profit clients to support some of the most crucial policies and programs that shape our nation. We are researchers and communicators, scientists, analysts and more, linked by curiosity and a commitment to excellence. We undertake challenging missions every day, and to make them successful we recruit bright, adaptable people who truly understand our clients’ issues and pair them with functional specialists to build common sense, tailored solutions. That’s the Ripple Way, and our clients deserve nothing less.

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NC Counts Coalition has been awarded funding by The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services to lead the Healthier Together Health Equity Action Network, also known as Healthier Together, intended to advance health equity and support an equitable distribution of vaccines that increases vaccination rates among BIPOC communities, also referred to as Historically Marginalized Populations (HMPs).

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The Coordinated Masters Program (CMP) is one of two Public Health Nutrition MPH tracks within the School of Public Health’s Division of Epidemiology and Community Health. The program typically admits 11 students a year, with the program lasting 2 years.  Supervised practice experiences take place throughout the 2-year program.  The program is fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics (ACEND). The CMP Director reports directly to the Director of Public Health Nutrition.

Primary responsibilities of the CMP director include administering the CMP program, online teaching of experiential courses during the summer, training of students in dietetic skills during fall and spring semesters, recruiting and maintaining supervised practice sites, and evaluating all aspects of the program on a yearly basis.

Responsibilities include:  Review and grade student assignments utilizing pre-existing rubrics. Assist with student simulations by providing individualized feedback. Develop student education modules to meet accreditation competencies. Track student completion of supervised practice rotations and assure required documentation has been submitted. Develop and administer surveys to CMP stakeholders, including preceptors, employers, present and past students. Monitor affiliation agreement database and assure university and student compliance with stipulations.  Respond to prospective student questions, track volume and frequently-asked questions.  Monitor CMP information on the website and propose modifications based on prospective student inquiries. Monitor admissions procedure including tracking of prospective student applications. Participate in interview process of applicants. Assist in orientation of incoming students.

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The goal of the Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior Food and Nutrition Extension Education Division (FNEE) Student Scholarship Program is to provide financial assistance to attend the FNEE Pre-Conference and SNEB Annual Conference. To be eligible for this Scholarship the applicant must be a senior undergraduate, graduate or international student enrolled in a United States or international degree program in nutrition, family and consumer sciences, public health, health education, community health or closely related field.

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Currently, we are looking for a researcher who is passionate about improving the economic and nutritional well-being of low-income children, youth, and families to join our vibrant and growing Human Services unit. In particular, we seek an experienced nutrition researcher who will lead studies that examine nutrition-related outcomes, including the nutritional quality of dietary intakes, meals, and foods. Many of our nutrition-related projects focus on USDA’s nutrition assistance programs, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), and the Child Nutrition programs, including the National School Lunch Program (NSLP), the School Breakfast Program (SBP), the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP), and the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP).

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We are looking for analysts to join our team in the Human Services unit. Analysts are part of our professional staff that includes researchers from the fields of public policy, economics, and other social sciences, learning and improvement partners, strategy advisers, product innovators, and data scientists. They work on projects across domestic policy areas, which include family support, education, child development, labor, economic mobility, nutrition, criminal justice, and related topics.

Specifically, we are seeking analysts in the program development, support, and improvement specialization. Human Services Analyst – Program development, support, and improvement staff collaborate with programs to identify, design, guide, and carry out innovation and quality improvement efforts, deliver program technical assistance and training, and contribute to the development of products such as trainings, written tools, reports, and videos.

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We are seeking researchers to lead evidence-based program development and technical assistance projects for nutrition and workforce programs, primarily for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Services and state and local agencies that implement the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Mathematica is seeking researchers who will collaborate with clients and stakeholders to identify, design, guide, and carry out innovation and quality improvement efforts; analyze policy and operations to make recommendations for improvements; deliver program technical assistance and training; and lead the development of products, such as trainings, written tools, reports, and videos. Researchers are needed to lead projects primarily focused on SNAP and the SNAP employment and training (E&T) program but may also support other projects in the area of workforce or family support.

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Mathematica is currently seeking senior researchers who are passionate about improving the economic and nutritional well-being of low-income children, youth, and families to lead research and evaluation projects in our vibrant and growing Human Services unit. In particular, we seek experienced senior researchers to lead projects focusing on USDA’s nutrition assistance programs, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), and the Child Nutrition programs, including the National School Lunch Program (NSLP), the School Breakfast Program (SBP), the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP), and the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP), as well as private philanthropic and nonprofit clients.

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Internships are available to current full-time law and master degree students with a GPA of 3.0 or higher.  The program runs for 12 weeks between June and August of 2021, with some flexibility to accommodate school schedules.  This is a paid internship, based on an hourly rate.

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View available National Health Service Corps Scholarships

The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation is seeking an RDN member of the Academy to serve as a fellow. The fellow will lead the Foundation’s “Accelerating Food Security: Food Supply Chain Innovation” Fellowship (AFS Fellowship). This project is part of the Foundation’s Future of Food program.

The fellowship begins on or around May 31, 2021.

This opportunity, available through an educational grant from National Dairy Council to the Foundation, is a full-time fellowship role for one year.

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Join us  on April 14, 2021 from 11-12 Eastern.

Topic: Strengthening Native Representation among Tribal Health Councils

Presented by Gerilyn Antonio, Health Equity Internship Program Alumni (Fall 2020)

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The MCH Nutrition Council hosts quarterly webinars with external experts to enhance professional development and educational opportunity on emerging issues relevant to MCH nutrition.

Calls are tentatively scheduled for the 3rd Thursday of October, January, April and July at 2 pm ET.

For more information, please contact Sandy Perkins at sandy@asphn.org

The ASPHN Membership, Communication & Outreach Committee meets on the third Thursday of each month at 4:00 pm Eastern. All ASPHN members are welcome to join us!

Join us on Thursday, April 15. Dial in on 877-985-8350 with access code 833953#

For more information and to receive the agenda prior to the call, please contact Amber Brown at amberbrown@asphn.org

The ASPHN MCH Nutrition Council Steering Committee meets the 3rd Monday of every month at noon ET to plan and support council activities, including those specified in the ASPHN / MCHB Contract.

Join us on Monday, April 19. Dial in on 1-800-750-4065; 969656#

For more information and to receive the agenda prior to the call, please contact Sandy Perkins at sandy@asphn.org