Research Postdoctoral Fellowship Within the Center for Health Care Delivery Science

The Center for Healthcare Delivery Science (CHDS) is an innovative and unique community of 18 investigators that uses diverse methods from family and learning health systems science, behavioral science, implementation science, informatics, health policy, and behavioral economics. Our goal is to build a strong base of scientific evidence about how health care can best be delivered to foster the healthiest generation of children. 

Health care delivery is optimized when conceptualized as integrating aspects of health outcomes, health behavior, care delivery and health policy. CHDS spans the Nemours Children's enterprise with locations in Wilmington, Delaware and Jacksonville and Orlando in Florida. We offer a two-year intensive research fellowship program to professionals from a variety of backgrounds (e.g., psychology, nursing, medicine, public health) who aspire to academic research careers.

Fellows have the opportunity to:

• Work with a mentor to develop an area of research focus within the scope of CHDS, based on interest and experience.
• Write and submit mentored grant applications (e.g., internal fellowship grants, NIH K23), with the goal of launching their own line of research.
• Participate in all aspects of clinical research, including project planning, recruitment and data collection, data management and analyses, and manuscript preparation.
• Attend biomedical research presentations, pediatric grand rounds, CHDS-based research meetings and didactics, and other educational sessions.
• Become part of a cohort of postdoctoral fellows across Nemours.

Program highlights:

CHDS fellowships are two-year programs, with the most recent running summer 2025 to summer 2027. 

We have two fellowship positions, one in Wilmington, Delaware and one in Jacksonville or Orlando in Florida. 

Fellows are paired with a primary research faculty mentor within CHDS and may collaborate with other Nemours faculty. 

These are primarily research positions; if applicable, up to 20% of supervised clinical time is allotted to accrue hours for licensure.