The Center for Healthcare Delivery Sciences (C4HDS) invites applications for a two-year fellowship program to provide training and skills development in health services and implementation research with the long-term goal of assisting trainees in establishing their careers as independent investigators.

C4HDS is a highly collaborative academic research center based at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. The Center’s multi-disciplinary faculty share a common interest in health services and implementation research, with a specific focus on pragmatic trials of interventions to improve the use and prescribing of prescription medications. Additional information about C4HDS and our research can be found at www.c4hds.org. The fellowship program is led by C4HDS Executive Director, Niteesh Choudhry, MD, PhD.

Key components of the fellowship include:

• Didactic and experiential training in health services research, implementation research, epidemiology, biostatistics, and data science, including exposure to predictive analytics/machine learning and comparative effectiveness research. Fellows will have the opportunity to participate in courses taught by the Center and affiliated faculty, including those offered by Harvard Catalyst and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
• Hands-on experience designing, conducting, and publishing mentored research projects focused on principle-driven interventions to engage patients and providers in healthcare.
• Mentoring in the application and use of methods used for health services and implementation research, including quantitative and qualitative analysis techniques, as applicable for the applicants’ long-term interests, and the design and conduct of pragmatic clinical trials, as well as manuscript and grant writing.
• Opportunities to interact with a broad range of stakeholders in healthcare, including organizations that deliver care, administer health insurance benefits and/or develop new technologies and therapeutics.