The BMED Program provides additional training in clinical and research methods by offering postdoctoral fellowships. Since 2004, BMED has trained numerous postdoctoral fellows, many of whom stay on to become full-time faculty at Mass General/Harvard Medical School. Other fellows have taken tenure-track positions in academic psychology departments.

These fellowships depend on the status of various internal and external funding mechanisms. Typically, we know about the availability of postdoctoral positions for July or September after the end of January of that year.

Global Psychiatric Research Training

We also offer a postdoctoral training opportunity through the Global Psychiatric Clinical Research Training Program, a National Institute of Mental Health-funded T32 fellowship organized in collaboration with the Division of Global Psychiatry at Mass General. This fellowship is a protected time clinical research fellowship devoted to providing training to fellows interested in clinical research careers in global mental health. Fellows are mentored by Conall O’Cleirigh, PhD.

Training opportunities may be available at a few different sites:

• Cape Town, South Africa: focused on evaluating nurse-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy intervention for HIV medication adherence and depression
• Durban, South Africa: focused on reproductive health of women living with or at risk for HIV
• India: focused on HIV prevention among men who have sex with men
• Harare, Zimbabwe: focused on problem-solving therapy for depression and treatment engagement among people with HIV

More details about the fellowship can be found Mental Health Innovation Network’s website.

Other Postdoctoral Opportunities 

We have successfully mentored interns who have secure spots in a series of other competitive T32 Programs within the Harvard Medical School System including:

• Harvard Medical School Research Fellowship in Integrative Medicine T32 (Yeh)
• Program for AIDS Clinical Research Training (PACRT) T32 (Freedberg)
• Research Training in Global Non-Communicable Diseases T32 (Haberer)