Post-Doctoral Fellow in Pharmacoepidemiology

The Clinical Epidemiology Center at the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Saint Louis Health Care System in collaboration with Pfizer is in search of a postdoctoral fellow to join our pharmacoepidemiology postdoctoral fellowship program.

The two-year program is designed to train the next generation of leaders in pharmacoepidemiology; it will provide advanced hands-on experience in pharmacoepidemiology studies and analyses leveraging the breadth and depth of the US Veterans Health Administration national healthcare databases.

The program is designed to provide mastery of state-of-the-art methods in causal inference and pharmacoepidemiology including target trial emulation, high dimensional data methodologies and bias calibration. Fellows will have hands-on-experience in designing innovative studies, developing analysis plans, performing and interpreting statistical analyses, and developing research publications and presentations.

The postdoctoral fellows will be mentored by an exceptional interdisciplinary team of leading scientists from both Pfizer and the VA St. Louis Health Care System. Fellows are expected to contribute to a robust pipeline of high impact publications, and supported to apply for extramural funding including VA, NIH, and other funding sources and transition to independence in academia, industry, or other relevant fields.

Outstanding candidates are invited to apply for this prestigious fellowship program. The ideal candidate will have a strong statistical and computational background, experience processing and analyzing large datasets, a solid base of epidemiology methods and principles, and outstanding communication skills. Exceptional fellows will be selected based on their qualifications and their ability to carry out ambitious and collaborative data-intensive pharmacoepidemiology research to develop new insights and help improve the health and well-being of people around the world.

The program is led by the Pharmacoepidemiology Division of Clinical Epidemiology Center at the VA St. Louis Health Care System in partnership the Global Medical Epidemiology Department at Pfizer and administered by the Veterans Research and Education Foundation of St. Louis. The program is designed to leverage the strengths of each organization in support of developing new talent and advancing the fields of pharmacoepidemiology and healthcare research.

Qualifications

• Candidates should have a Doctoral Degree (PhD or equivalent) in a relevant field such as pharmacoepidemiology, biostatistics, statistics, epidemiology, bioinformatics or other related fields

• Strong programming skills with SAS is required; experience with other programming languages such as R and Python is highly preferred

• Experience in causal inference methodologies is highly preferred

• Experience in data processing, design, and analyses of large datasets is highly preferred

• Experience in medical research, especially research based on large electronic health records is highly preferred

• Previous experience in academic research and demonstrated ability to publish peer-reviewed scientific papers is highly preferred

• Ability to present study results in a succinct and professional manner

• Strong desire to explore, learn, and innovate.

• Excellent verbal communication and writing skills

• Commitment to collaborative work

This position is renewable every year for up to 2 years.

Salary and benefits: Salary $70,649 + Fringe $21,195 = Total package $91,844

Targeted start date: August 2025 (may offer flexibility to exceptional applicants)

This opportunity is located at the VA St. Louis Health Care System in Saint Louis, MO. This is not a remote or virtual position.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $91,844.00 per year

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Work Location: In person