PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Causal Inference in United States

Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health is inviting applications for a Fall 2027 PhD in Biostatistics. The program offers advanced training in biostatistics and statistical methodology within a public-health research environment. Students can pursue research across artificial intelligence and machine learning, epidemiology and infectious disease modelling, Bayesian statistics, causal inference, spatial statistics, longitudinal data analysis, statistical genetics and genomics, clinical...

Indiana University School of Medicine is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow in Biostatistics and Health Data Science to advance research at the intersection of artificial intelligence for healthcare, multimodal data analysis, and causal AI. The fellow will lead original research involving diverse healthcare data, including electronic health records, medical imaging, omics, physiological signals, and clinical notes. The work will focus on developing, implementing, and rigorously evaluating algorithms ...

This postdoctoral position at the University of California, Irvine sits in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics within the Joe C. Wen School of Population and Public Health . The role is centered on developing and applying statistical and machine learning methods for high-dimensional data analysis , causal inference , and data integration . The appointee will work on methodological research while also collaborating with researchers across a broad range of biomedical areas. The projec...

This postdoctoral associate position is based in Cornell University’s School of Integrative Plant Science, Section of Plant Breeding and Genetics, and will be embedded in the Equitable Agricultural Research (EQUAL) Lab. The role sits at the intersection of agricultural research, farmer decision-making, and participatory plant breeding, with work spanning the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and Cornell’s broader transdisciplinary research ecosystem. The appointed researcher will lead a s...

The Ohio State University is seeking a full-time Postdoctoral Scholar in the College of Public Health, Division of Biostatistics, located in Columbus, United States. The postdoctoral researcher will conduct methodological research in infectious disease epidemiology , developing practical and computationally efficient methods for adapting and fitting survival-analysis models to infectious disease transmission data. Projects may use household- or population-level data, including genetic sequences ...

The University of Pittsburgh’s School of Business is hiring an Assistant Professor in Marketing for a full-time regular faculty appointment in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The successful candidate will teach graduate and undergraduate business courses, advise PhD students specializing in quantitative marketing, conduct independent empirical research, lead research projects, publish in leading marketing and management journals, and contribute to departmental and academic service. Rese...

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is seeking a full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellow to join the Population Wellness Lab, led by Dr. Christy A. Denckla in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. The lab studies how adversity affects human potential and well-being, with current emphasis on bereavement, trauma, social disruption, and mental and physical health across the lifespan. Funded by a five-year National Institute of Mental Healt...

Stanford University’s SCALE Initiative is seeking at least one quantitative postdoctoral fellow to conduct rigorous empirical research on educational programs, policies, and interventions. The fellow will be mentored by Professor Susanna Loeb, with additional mentorship from Carly Robinson, and will join Stanford’s Graduate School of Education research community. The research focuses on causal inference, randomized controlled trials, quasi-experimental methods, large-scale administrative data, a...

Postdoctoral Fellow opportunity at Harvard Business School in the Digital Reskilling Lab, led by Professors Raffaella Sadun and Jorge Tamayo. The lab studies workplace initiatives aimed at retraining and reskilling employees whose jobs are being transformed or replaced by digital technologies. This is a strong fit for researchers interested in economics , business , statistics , and data-intensive empirical work, especially work on labor market adaptation, organizational change, and the economic...