Research Scientist, Environmental Health, School of Public Health
About this role
Research Scientist – Center for Climate and Health
Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH)
Position Overview
The Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) Center for Climate and Health (CCH) invites applications for a Research Scientist to support interdisciplinary research on the health impacts of extreme weather, with embedded roles in major NIH-funded initiatives including the CAFE Research Coordinating Center (CAFE RCC) and the Gateway Exposome Coordinating Center (GECC). CCH advances research, training, and translation to reduce climate-related health risks with a focus on actionable science for vulnerable populations. The successful candidate will contribute to research spanning extreme weather, air pollution, built environment, and exposome science, while helping to build shared data infrastructure and collaborative science communities.
Key Responsibilities
- Apply advanced geospatial, environmental, and spatiotemporal analytic methods (e.g., GIS, remote sensing, causal inference, statistical modeling)
- Manage and harmonize large-scale datasets across climate, environmental, and population health domains
- Lead and contribute to studies of climate-related exposures and health outcomes, including extreme heat, air pollution, and climate hazards
- Contribute to manuscripts, grant proposals, and reports for NIH and other sponsors
- Mentor trainees and support team science across BUSPH and partner institutions
CAFE RCC Activities:
- Support development of the CAFE community of practice, convening researchers, agencies, and partners across disciplines with a focus on data, metadata and ontologies, and data pipelines.
- Contribute to data sharing and reproducible science infrastructure, including the CAFE Dataverse and GitHub resources
- Engage in training, workshops, and capacity-building initiatives (e.g., methods training, pilot projects, collaborative networks)
- Facilitate integration and harmonization of environmental and health datasets to accelerate climate-health research
GECC Activities:
- Contribute to development and application of exposome frameworks spanning environmental, social, and policy-related exposures
- Support harmonization, linkage, and dissemination of exposure data and measures across cohorts and studies
- Participate in generating science-ready tools, guidance, and best practices for exposome research
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to advance research on life-course environmental exposures and health outcomes
Company at a glance
For seventy years, Boston University College of General Studies has been a leader in general education—a small liberal arts college providing a world-class general education in the heart of a large research university. The educational practices CGS pioneered and refined—interdisciplinary learning, the Capstone project, the use of e-Portfolios for rigorous assessment, and an emphasis on general education—have since been adopted as best practices in the field of higher education.
Today, CGS continues its legacy of interdisciplinary teaching and learning. Its two-year program fulfills most of the University’s BU Hub general education requirements, inspiring students to make connections among disciplines and to connect their knowledge to real-world problems. It continues to offer a rigorous and comprehensive liberal arts foundation while guiding students on a unique pathway through BU, teaching them how to apply broad learning, how to think critically and creatively, and how to communicate effectively. With its unique first-year experience—a spring semester start date followed by a summer semester in London or New England—CGS offers the only program at Boston University where study abroad is integrated into the first year of college.
Our faculty and leadership pioneer best practices in interdisciplinary and general education around the globe. And our alumni continue to change the world in every industry and profession they choose—from entertainment to education to business to the medical fields.
We love to stay connected with our alumni, parents, and friends! Follow us here on LinkedIn, join BU Connects (https://buconnects.com/), or share your updates with us via a Class Note (https://www.bu.edu/cgs/alumni/class-notes/).
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