Current Employment Opportunities

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity

SUMMARY:  ACHI at UAMS in partnership with PolicyLink (Oakland, CA) has established the new Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity. The RWJF Center provides expertise and support to organizations, policy-makers and communities.  It aims to help shape and coordinate these groups’ efforts and build a nationwide movement to solve this critical health issue.

Overarching goals of the center are to:

• reduce the prevalence of overweight and obesity among children within the U.S.;
• decrease disparities in childhood obesity among communities of color, impoverished areas, and regions disproportionately affected by obesity; and
• create systematic changes using an empiric base that will have long-lasting impact and change the environment beyond 2015.

Open positions established to help achieve these goals are listed below.  Please click on the job title for more detailed information.  All applications must be submitted through the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences:

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Research Associate for Policy

MINIMUM EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:  

Master’s degree in Biomedical Sciences or related field plus 2 years of related professional research experience OR Bachelor’s degree

in Biomedical Sciences or related field plus 5 years of related professional research experience.  Significant course work in political science is a plus.

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