Health and Human Info Policy Research Fellow; Hybrid; Cordell Institute Policy in Medicin

Location

ST. LOUIS, MO 63130

The Cordell Institute for Policy in Medicine & Law at Washington University seeks a full-time Health and Human Information Policy Research Fellow for a one-year term.

This position operates in a hybrid work environment and is expected to be based in the St. Louis metropolitan area.

The Cordell Institute’s mission is to devise solutions to the novel ethical, legal, and policy questions accompanying scientific and technological advancements in healthcare. The Institute advances interdisciplinary scholarship and practical solutions at the intersection of law, medicine, public health, technology, and governance, with a particular focus on strengthening accountability, innovation, and public trust as information about people moves across clinical, commercial, and research settings.

The Health and Human Information Policy Research Fellow will contribute to research and thought leadership examining the legal, ethical, and governance challenges arising from emerging technologies, data systems, and evolving health policies, with particular emphasis on health and human information that moves beyond the clinical setting into consumer applications, research pipelines, and the training and deployment of artificial intelligence. Particular attention will be given to the duties of the institutions that collect, hold, and share such information, and to issues involving privacy, civil liberties, civil rights, equity, accountability, public trust, and democratic governance in healthcare, public health, and related systems.

Under the supervision of the Institute’s executive director and faculty co‑directors, and potentially in coordination with other faculty, departments, and external partners, the Fellow will conduct interdisciplinary legal and policy research that contributes to scholarly publications, policy analyses, white papers, and other public‑facing products. Research may address topics such as health law and policy, public health law, health governance, health information policy and data stewardship, artificial intelligence and data governance, civil liberties, legal epidemiology, policy surveillance, and privacy law.

The Fellow will work closely with Institute leadership to define the scope and objectives of specific projects and identify meaningful deliverables aligned with the Institute’s strategic priorities. Deliverables may include peer‑reviewed scholarship, policy briefs, model provisions and institutional toolkits, coded legal datasets, and public‑facing policy maps.

Information on being a postdoc at WashU in St. Louis can be found at https://postdoc.wustl.edu/prospective-postdocs-2/.

• Designing and managing one or more research projects aligned with the Institute’s strategic priorities.
• Conducting interdisciplinary legal and policy research addressing questions at the intersection of health and human information, law, technology, governance, and civil liberties.
• Contributing to a policy surveillance or legal epidemiology projects, including the systematic coding of state and federal laws governing health and human information so that legal change can be measured across jurisdictions and over time.
• Conducting research examining how legal and governance