Job Description

ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS Now for Fellowships beginning in July 2025.

The purpose of the fellowship is:
• To prepare individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds in medical, biological, social, behavioral, and policy sciences to join the next generation of academic leaders in tobacco control.
• Upon completion of training, fellows will be well positioned to be active participants in crucial policy debates about the future development and implementation of tobacco control, cannabis and e-cigarette interventions.
• Reference our fellows’ alumni status: https://tobacco.ucsf.edu/alumni

The fellowship supports two years of postdoctoral training in all aspects of tobacco control research:
• Our program stresses the skills needed to conduct research in diverse, collaborative transdisciplinary settings.
• We emphasize leadership in catalyzing the integration of multiple disciplines and translating science to policy and clinical practice.
• Postdoctoral fellows will have exposure to diverse training, including both didactic coursework and individualized mentoring to build a personalized research program.

Prior tobacco research experience is relevant, but not necessary for acceptance. Fellows have come from medicine, public health, nursing, economics, anthropology, Geography, political science, law, sociology, psychology, and cell biology.

UCSF is a global leader in tobacco science, a World Health Organization collaborating center, and home of the Truth Tobacco Industry Documents. We offer individual mentorship with UCSF faculty along with courses in tobacco, cannabis and e-cigarette specific topics: health policy, cancer control and prevention, grant and scientific writing skills, career development, interdisciplinary research, and biostatistics. Under the leadership of Center Director, Pamela Ling, MD, MPH, our program supports opportunities available to candidates with national and international citizenship status. We place a high priority on developing a fellowship program that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We encourage qualified applicants from all backgrounds to apply. Candidates with Permanent US Residency status are encouraged to apply.

Postdoc fellows receive an annual salary, commensurate with experience, of approximately:
$64,000 - $76,000.

To learn more about the Center, the fellowship program, current fellows, faculty and their research interests, please visit us at:
http://tobacco.ucsf.edu/

A limited number of fellows may be accepted on a rolling basis until positions are filled.
To apply, please visit: http://tobacco.ucsf.edu/fellowship