Substance Abuse Epidemiology training program (SAETP) at Columbia University
An exciting opportunity for pre-doctoral and post-doctoral training is offered in the Substance Abuse Epidemiology training program (SAETP) at Columbia University through the Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health. The SAETP in the Columbia University Medical Center trains pre- and post-doctoral fellows to use epidemiologic methods to understand the onset, course and consequences of substance use and substance use disorders, and translate such understanding into actions to mitigate the toll that substance use and substance use disorders take on individuals and society in the U.S. and elsewhere. Funded by NIDA since 2012, SAETP is a joint enterprise of the Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, and the Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons.
A rich training environment provides opportunities to work with faculty who are leading scholars in public health, psychiatry, biostatistics, clinical psychology, and other areas of medicine. Fellows build a personalized program of research by participating in a weekly seminar on substantive or methodological topics and career development (e.g., grant proposal preparation, manuscript writing skills), course work as applicable, participation in ongoing research laboratories and projects, and individualized mentoring. Training includes public health aspects of substance use and addiction, analysis of global, national and local data across individual and ecological levels, measurement issues, and prevention and intervention studies. For further information about this program, please see http://www.mailman.columbia.edu/academic-departments/epidemiology/training-programs/substance-abuse-epidemiology-training-program.
SAETP is directed by Deborah Hasin, Ph.D. and Silvia Martins, M.D., Ph.D., with Zach Mannes, Ph.D., M.P.H. as the SAETP training coordinator. Faculty include 26 highly successful, well-funded researchers whose expertise spans multiple areas, methodologies and disciplines to provide mentorship for SAETP fellows. SAETP faculty are also highly interdisciplinary, including epidemiology, biostatistics, psychiatry, psychology, infectious disease, sociomedical sciences, and nursing. SAETP faculty share the belief that investment in training fellows yields invaluable long-term dividends for the fellow, mentor, and the research field.
The program currently has one post-doctoral opening, beginning on or after September 1, 2026.
Interested applicants should contact Mr. Gerald Govia (gg2431@cumc.columbia.edu) Dr. Deborah Hasin (dsh2@cumc.columbia.ed) and Dr. Silvia Martins (ssm2183@cumc.columbia.edu).