The goal of the Research Fellowship is to give postdoctral scholars a year of protected time to focus on their research while also integrating them into the everyday life of a dynamic, multidisciplinary institution within a health science center.

Our Fellowship Offers

Fellows are expected to carry out their research projects and to collaborate with BHH faculty on new projects. In addition, fellows will teach one BHH graduate seminar in their research area and may be involved in educational sessions for healthcare professional students and practicing clinicians. As a member of BHH, fellows will participate in departmental events, such as seminar series and work in progress sessions.

Eligibility

Fellows should have a terminal degree (PhD, JD, or MD/DO) and research interests that interface with bioethics and health humanities. This is a one-year program that runs from September 1 to August 31. Scholars may apply for renewal for a second year. In addition to a salary of $63,000, scholars will receive health insurance, professional development funds, office space, library access, and various other UTMB benefits.

Application

Interested applicants should submit a letter of interest in this program, including your research project(s), potential topics for a graduate seminar and curriculum vitae to the Search Committee (bhh@utmb.edu). We begin accepting applications in January for a start date of September 1.

UTMB Health strives to provide equal opportunity employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by institutional policy or by federal, state or local laws unless such distinction is required by law. As a VEVRAA Federal Contractor, UTMB Health takes affirmative action to hire and advance women, minorities, protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

Research Fellowship Contacts

Phone: (409) 747-9328

Fax: (409) 772-5272

Email: stmolldr@utmb.edu

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Physical Address:

UHC, Suite 4.208
1005 Harborside Drive
Galveston, TX 77555

Mailing Address:

301 University Boulevard
Galveston, TX 77555-1150

Stephen Molldrem, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Bioethics & Health Humanities
Research Program Director, Bioethics and Health Humanities

School of Public and Population Health

Member, Institute for Translational Sciences
Pronouns: he/him/his

Research Experts

Stephen Molldrem is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioethics and Health Humanities, with membership In the Institute for Translational Sciences and the Institute for Bioethics and Health Humanities. He was previously a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Irvine in the Department of Anthropology, and received his PhD in American Culture with a Graduate Certificate in Science, Technology, and Society (STS) from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Dr. Molldrem’s research has been supported by numerous fellowships and grants, including an NIH bioethics supplement. His publications have appeared in an interdisciplinary range of venues, including The American Journal of Bioethics, Health Policy, Global Public Health, Critical Public Health, First Monday, The Journal of the History of Sexuality, and Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience.

Dr. Molldrem is a qualitative researcher situated at the intersection of STS, public health ethics, critical bioethics, policy studies, and sexuality studies. Methodologically, he employs ethnography, varied qualitative approaches, policy analysis, social theory, and frameworks from STS such as infrastructure studies and actor-network theory. Dr. Molldrem also has interests in implementation science and in synthesizing styles of inquiry from that field with STS. His current program of research focuses on ethical and socio-technical issues that arise from uses of data about infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, M. tuberculosis (TB), and SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 by researchers and public health agencies, with a particular emphasis on pathogen genomic epidemiology. He also studies how the collection of data about sexuality and gender has been standardized in the US healthcare system, along with related issues in the history of academic sexology in the 20th century US. Stephen is an engaged scholar who works with multiple stakeholder groups on issues related to domestic and global health policy.

Affiliations

School of Public and Population Health
Institute for Bioethics and Health Humanities
Institute for Translational Sciences

BA, Political Communication (with Special Honors), magna cum laude, The George Washington University, School of Media and Public Affairs
MA, American Culture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Certificate of Graduate Studies, Science, Technology, and Society, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
PhD, American Culture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, Anthropology, University of California, Irvine

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