Social Science Research Scholar (1-year Fixed Term)

**Job Description**

The Division of Primary Care and Population Health (https://med.stanford.edu/pcph.html) seeks to serve our community through caring, learning, and innovation for the whole person through all stages of live. While engaged in practice and teaching, our faculty are dedicated to establishing new knowledge as the basis for future practice and prevention, and to the greatest extent possible applying that knowledge to improve care for all and reduce health disparities.

The research scholar will take a leadership role in Pascal Geldsetzer’s research group, which is a “dry lab” focused on quantitative analyses of existing, and often publicly accessible, datasets. The group is currently focused on studying the causal effect of shingles vaccination on cognition ( https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.23.23290253v1 , https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.08.23295225v1 , https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.27.24309563v1.full )...