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Over the past decade, UNDP’s Hub on LGBTI+ and Key Populations has led implementation of several important multi-country and regional initiatives in Africa, involving a combination of key populations, LGBTI issues, human rights, law, and inclusive governance. The Hub manages these various Africa-focused projects under the umbrella brand, #WeBelongAfrica. This consolidated approach for key populations, LGBTI, issues, human rights and inclusive governance is expected to create a much-needed synergy between UNDP’s different projects; provides a common vision and purpose that can be shared across communities, governments, and development partners; and contributes to UNDP’s portfolio approach.

#WeBelongAfrica currently consolidates three distinct projects: the Sweden-funded “Inclusive Governance Initiative” (IGI); the Netherlands funded “Southern Africa Young Key Population Initiative” (YKP); and the African component of the German-funded “LGBTI Inclusion Index”.   Moving forward, a fourth project is being added to the portfolio, the Africa components of the global “Drug Policy Project” funded by the Open Societies Foundation. The YKP project focuses on strengthening the capacity of young key population groups in southern Africa to engage in policy dialogue and advocacy related to their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) with their national governments; sub-regional bodies such as the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC); regional institutions including the African Union (AU) and the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR); and relevant national human rights institutions.  IGI includes a similar emphasis on capacity development of civil society groups and facilitation of engagement of such groups with these institutions, although IGI focuses only on LGBTI groups.  The current phase of the Inclusion Index focuses on strengthening the collection, analysis, and use of LGBTI-related data in seven countries globally, including South Africa, Namibia, Kenya and Cote d’Ivoire in Africa.  The “Drug Policy Project” supports implementation of the UN System Common Position on Drugs, recognizing that people who use drugs are an important key population in the HIV response. UNDP’s role is to advance evidence-informed, rights-based, and health-oriented reforms to drug policy, with Ghana and South Africa identified as priority countries in Africa.

This ToR outlines the roles of a programme analyst to support the LGBTI+ and Key Population Hub team in implementing relevant regional activities related to the Drug Policy Project, the LGBTI Inclusion Index and the Inclusive Governance Initiative, with particular attention to those activities that will take place within South Africa.

The University of Houston College of Pharmacy invites qualified applicants to apply for a full-time, non-tenure track faculty position at the rank of Research Assistant Professor in the Prescription Drug Misuse Education and Research (PREMIER) Center. We are seeking outstanding individuals with a solid track interest in scholarship and expertise in the fields of substance use disorders, prescription drug misuse, pain management, or clinical research. The successful candidate will be involved in increasing scholarship productivity within the Center, increasing the national recognition of the College, and building a research enterprise that fits within the mission of the Center.

The mission of the PREMIER Center, founded in December 2018, is to improve patient outcomes by providing education on safe and effective controlled substance prescription use and to serve as a catalyst for collaborative research efforts optimizing pharmacotherapy to manage pain and substance use disorders. It is the only research center with this focus housed in a college of pharmacy in the world-renowned Texas Medical Center (TMC).

The position is fully funded by the University of Houston College of Pharmacy. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. A competitive start up package will be provided. We are looking for talented personnel who will strengthen and provide synergies with our current areas of research related to prevention, treatment, and harm reduction related to the mission of the PREMIER Center. The candidate would join a team of faculty, post-doctoral fellows, graduate students, and staff within the Center.

Three letters of recommendation and the email addresses of your references are required. Applicant screening will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled.

The national Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Matters (CRISM) network is seeking a full-time, contract (1-year) dynamic and creative Implementation Specialist to support the development and dissemination of knowledge translation (KT) products for national projects. The network comprises five regional nodes across the country and a national Indigenous Engagement Platform. The objective of CRISM is to translate evidence-based interventions for illicit and prescription drug use into clinical practice, community-based prevention, and health system changes. The network conducts substance use intervention research, including community-based primary and secondary prevention, as well as randomized pharmacotherapy and psychosocial trials with collaborating treatment programs and is well positioned to do so as it is modeled after the US National Institute of Drug Abuse Clinical Trials Network. Similar to the NIH network, CRISM is a national consortium of academic researchers, service-providers, consumers, and policy-makers (additional information on CRISM available here: http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/44597.html).

This specialist position is full-time and will work with CRISM’s National Coordinating Center, playing a key role in ensuring that CRISM’s research findings are accessible, engaging, and impactful across stakeholder audiences at a national scale. These stakeholders include clinicians, policymakers, researchers, and people with lived and living experience of substance use.

***THIS IS A GRANT FUNDED POSITION***

The Memory Epigenetics and Addiction Laboratory at Temple, directed by Dr. Mathieu Wimmer, is offering diverse opportunities to participate in cutting-edge biomedical neuroscience research, which are part of the NIDA-funded project, “Delineating epigenetic mechanisms underlying addiction vulnerability using multigenerational animal models.” This project will explore the specific mechanisms that confer addiction vulnerability (or resilience) using animal models of substance abuse and opioid dependence.

The part-time Research Assistant will manage multiple aspects of the research process. The Research Assistant will maintain records of data, collect and analyze data related to multiple projects, organize the data and generates graphical representation of collected data. The Research Assistant will also be responsible for performing surgical procedures and behavioral assays that are part of the research projects. The Research Assistant will help maintain and repair of lab equipment and will be responsible for ordering supplies for the lab. The Research Assistant will also fulfill administrative tasks including IACUC, IBC and EHRS protocol submission and revisions. The Research Assistant will also help organize lab meeting schedule and secure rooms for meetings. The successful candidate will perform other duties as assigned.

We have an opening for a postdoctoral fellow to join my lab at the National Institute of Mental Health at the NIH campus in Bethesda, MD. Research in the lab is focused on the computational neuroscience of reward prediction and learning. Broadly, we study how timing, inference processes and goal selection modulate learning in reward-guided tasks in animals and humans, and how these processes are instantiated in neural activity across the reward learning circuits of the brain. Our goal is to understand how reward learning is altered in compulsive behaviors, addiction, and motivational deficits in disorders of mental health. We are looking for a postdoc who is interested in developing approaches from reinforcement learning, dynamical systems theory, and Bayesian inference to understand the online regulation of reward prediction and learning in neural activity and behavior. We work with a broad network of collaborating labs that span rodent, NHP and human studies, and the ideal candidate will be comfortable working in a highly interdisciplinary environment to pursue novel and translational insights into the neural basis of reward learning. This opening is an excellent opportunity for a computational neuroscientist who wishes to apply theoretical ideas to understand empirical data, with the opportunity to collaborate on novel paradigms to test computational models of reward-guided behavior and reward learning in the brain.

The Department of Psychology and Human Services at Upper Iowa University invites applicants for a tenure track position starting January 2026 at the Fayette campus. We are seeking candidates able to teach a wide range of Psychology and Human Services courses including core courses for the Psychology major in addition to service, skilled, and applied courses such as Counseling Skills, Developmental Psychology, and Substance Abuse.

The standard teaching load is four courses per semester in a 2-2, eight-week session schedule. The majority of the course load includes a combination of face-to-face and online courses in the undergraduate and graduate programs. The Department of Psychology and Human Services at Upper Iowa University offers an undergraduate degree in Human Services as well as an undergraduate and graduate degree in Psychology. In addition, the department partners closely with the Master of Science in Counseling program. Faculty in this position have a primary responsibility for teaching in support of both the undergraduate majors, but could have the opportunity to teach in the Masters of Psychology and the Master of Sciences in Counseling program as needed.

Applications received by October 1, 2025 will receive priority, but the position is open until filled.

The Department of Psychiatry at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center is seeking a part-time Addiction Psychiatrist to join a developing program in addiction treatment and research. The position is at the faculty rank of Assistant Professor or above. 

This position consists of addiction clinical care, clinical supervision of trainees, teaching, and protected time for clinical addiction research.

JOB REQUIREMENTS: Medical Doctor, Board certification or Board eligibility required, Completion of an accredited residency required and sub certifications/training highly preferred, Current unrestricted licensure as a Physician in Tennessee, Current certification DEA number, Eligible for malpractice insurance, Relocation is not required, however the work is on-site.

For benefits information, please visit https://www.uthsc.edu/hr/benefits/documents/benefits-preview-packet.pdf 

The University of Tennessee is an EEO/AA/Title VI/Title IX/Section 504/ADA/ADEA/V institution in the provision of its education and employment programs and services.

The Department of Psychology, within the Institute of Population Health, is looking for three exceptional early- / mid-career researchers to contribute to our research, impact and teaching activity. The applicants should have a strong record of internationally excellent publications, and research activity aligned to the research strengths of the Department including addiction, appetite and obesity, clinical and cognitive neuroscience (including pain), forensic, investigative and conflict psychology, language development and lifespan, health and wellbeing (see job description for priority areas). You will also contribute to teaching and supervision on a number of undergraduate and postgraduate psychology programmes.

You should have:

-        A 1st or 2.1 degree in psychology or a psychology major, or related discipline e.g. social / behavioural / health/ biomedical science

-        A PhD in a relevant discipline

-        A track record of publications in high quality journals and be able to demonstrate research independence, leadership, and the ability to work flexibly and collaboratively.

The posts are available at Grades 8 and 9 and on a permanent basis.

Although the university has a hybrid working system, the expectation is that the successful applicant appointed to this role will be expected to work more than 60% on campus.

Commitment to Diversity

The University of Liverpool is committed to enhancing workforce diversity. We actively seek to attract, develop, and retain colleagues with diverse backgrounds and perspectives. We welcome applications from all genders/gender identities, Black, Asian, or Minority Ethnic backgrounds, individuals living with a disability, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community.

Shkaabe Makwa at CAMH is the first hospital-based Centre in Canada designed to drive culturally-responsive systems initiatives to achieve health justice and wellness for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis communities through the advancement of research, workforce development and innovative healing models that harmonize traditional knowledge and medical expertise.

The Institute for Mental Health Policy Research (IMHPR) is home to leading scientific experts dedicated to informing policy and practice on mental illness and substance use disorders. IMHPR scientists conduct collaborative research on communities, populations, health systems and global health, and develop and evaluate prevention and intervention initiatives to reduce mental health and substance use challenges. IMHPR is committed to equity, informed by the social determinants of health.

Position Description

Shkaabe Makwa and the Institute for Mental Health Policy Research (IMHPR) at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is seeking four (4) part-time, contract (4 months) Research Associate 1.  These individuals will support a research project funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the First Nations Wellness Initiative, which involves the collection of local data and the development of community wellness strategies using Participatory Action Research in First Nations communities. The research program actively engages all members of the community, including consumers/patients, families and informal caregivers, service providers and community leaders and Elders. The Research Associate will support the work collaboratively as part of a team of researchers to implement community-based research, involving both quantitative and qualitative research methods.

These positions are specific to Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory, where the Research Associate’s will report to the Manager of the First Nations Wellness Initiative. The primary responsibilities of the Research Associates include assisting with qualitative and quantitative data collection activities such as, a community wide survey, interviews with people with lived and living experiences, and focus groups with service providers.  The Research Associates will assist with administrative tasks and the preparation of data collection materials, as well as materials used in knowledge sharing activities. The Research Associates will be recruiting and screening eligible study participants; obtaining informed consent; assisting participants with the use of electronic tablets to complete a survey, and other research tasks as needed. Strict adherence to protocols for safety and the protection of data privacy and confidentiality are required. The Research Associates will be working as a team with the support of the Research Coordinators in community, as well as the wider CAMH research team. As a member of the research team, the Research Associate will join and support a healthy workplace that embraces diversity, encourages teamwork, and complies with all applicable regulatory and legislative requirements.

These part-time positions will have varying hours (maximum of 15 hours per week) for four months with the possibility of an extension. Work outdoors during evening and weekend hours are required. This position will be based in Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory and may involve travel within Ontario.

The trainee will be allocated within the Substance use, harms and responses unit, and the selected candidate will be reporting to the Head of the Early warning, alert, laboratory network sector.

The successful applicant will be requested to perform the following main tasks and responsibilities:

• Support data management and visualisation of new psychoactive substances.
• Support the preparation of reports on new psychoactive substances.
• Support the monitoring of open-source information.
• Review and summarise information published in the scientific literature.
• Support the management of serious drug-related risks.

Eligibility requirements:

• Be a national of one of the Member States of the European Union, Norway or Türkiye. Candidates from other countries may apply.
• Have fulfilled any obligations imposed by the applicable laws concerning military service.
• Be physically fit to perform the duties of the post.
• Have completed the first cycle of a higher education course (university education) and obtained a full degree or its equivalent by the closing date for applications. 
• Have a thorough knowledge of oral and written English. 

General selection requirements:

• A completed university degree in chemistry, pharmacology, toxicology, forensic science, pharmacy, medicine or similar.
• Experience in quantitative and qualitative data analysis.
• Experience in data visualisation.
• Excellent written English and computer/IT skills.

The trainee will be allocated within the Substance use, harms and responses unit, and the selected candidate will be reporting to the Head of the Drugs use, harms and addictive behaviours sector.

The successful applicant will be requested to perform the following main tasks and responsibilities:

• Analyse the disaggregated data on acute drug toxicity presentations to sentinel hospitals – (possible topic of the analysis: sex differences in polydrug associations).
• Analyse the trends in the patterns of polysubstance associations involved in drug-induced deaths (aggregated data in selected countries).
• Analyse the trends in the patterns of polysubstance use among clients seeking substance use treatment (treatment demand indicator).
• Map data collection tools for polysubstance use in all monitoring systems in the DHAB Sector.
• Support the organisation of relevant expert meetings for the unit and sector.

Eligibility requirements:

• Be a national of one of the Member States of the European Union, Norway or Türkiye. Candidates from other countries may apply.
• Have fulfilled any obligations imposed by the applicable laws concerning military service.
• Be physically fit to perform the duties of the post.
• Have completed the first cycle of a higher education course (university education) and obtained a full degree or its equivalent by the closing date for applications. 
• Have a thorough knowledge of oral and written English. 

General selection requirements:

• A completed university degree in public health, epidemiology, pharmacology, or a clinical background, quantitative analysis, and research experience.
• Independent user of R or some other statistical language.
• Experience in working with Power BI.
• Experience in working in the field of public health or epidemiology.

The trainee will be allocated within the Substance use, harms and responses unit, and the selected candidate will be reporting to the Head of the Health and social responses sector.

The successful applicant will be requested to perform the following main tasks and responsibilities:

• Support the sector’s organisational activities, such as the Health and Social Responses meeting.
• Support the project management of PLATO 0.2, EU-COMP and EU-QUALITY.
• Collaborate in the development of the webinars, the Best Practice Portal and the Responses Guide.
• To support the organisational and technical implementation of ongoing projects, including evidence gap maps (EGMs), expert knowledge elicitation (EKE), mapping of treatment services, and the use of AI in systematic reviews..
• Participate in sector meetings, supporting preparation to representing the agency/sector at conferences and meetings, identifying their own project.

Eligibility requirements:

• Be a national of one of the Member States of the European Union, Norway or Türkiye. Candidates from other countries may apply.
• Have fulfilled any obligations imposed by the applicable laws concerning military service.
• Be physically fit to perform the duties of the post.
• Have completed the first cycle of a higher education course (university education) and obtained a full degree or its equivalent by the closing date for applications. 
• Have a thorough knowledge of oral and written English. 

General selection requirements:

• A completed university degree in public health, epidemiology, criminology, biology, sociology, psychology, law, or international relations.
• The candidate must show a genuine interest for learning in practice, resilience, respect and intention to teamwork.

The ARTS Adult Outpatient Program (AOP) within Addiction Research and Treatment Services (ARTS) at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus is seeking a full-time University Staff (non-classified) Peer Recovery Specialist. The ARTS Adult Outpatient Program within the School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry has clinic locations in Denver, Aurora, and Arvada. These clinics provide drug and alcohol assessment and psychosocial and pharmacological treatment for adults. Programs in various clinic locations include traditional outpatient, intensive outpatient, and may contain specialty services for clients referred by the criminal justice system, county departments of human services, services for pregnant women, individuals who are HIV-positive, and gender responsive services.

The Peer Recovery Specialist provides peer support and recovery services to people living with HIV who have problems with substance abuse at the ARTS Parkside Clinic and Specialized Outpatient Services (SOS) Clinic; both located in Denver. This position provides activities to engage, educate, and offer support to HIV-positive patients, their family, and caregivers, as well as connect patients to prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up sessions.

The Peer Recovery Specialist is also responsible for conducting outreach activities with organizations, patients, staff, community partners, subcontracted agencies, and/or other entities as appropriate. This position will also travel to various sites and perform other duties as assigned or required.

Standard working hours for this position are Monday through Friday, 6:00am to 2:30pm, or 8:30am to 5:00pm. This position may be required to work some Saturdays and/or Sundays (for events/clinic coverage) depending on the needs of the clinic.

This position is a full-time position partially supported by Ryan White Care Act grant funds, whose funding levels will be reviewed on a periodic basis. Accordingly, the position’s status may be affected over time by any applicable variations in the grant and/or funding amounts.

Key Responsibilities:

• Under general supervision, provide services as a Peer educator and support specialist to implement interventions to improve outcomes for HIV-positive patients participating in medication-assisted treatment (MAT) and traditional outpatient treatment.
• Conduct structured, individual and group interventions that focus on health education, care coordination, as well as identifying and reducing barriers to care for patients.
• Conduct outreach activities in the community to engage HIV-positive patients in substance use treatment.
• Plan, coordinate, and conduct community outreach events such as Denver Pridefest and the Colorado AIDS Walk.
• Conduct case management for patients, and provide referrals of necessary, appropriate resources to patients as needed.
• Implement standardized intervention, track patients for engagement, and connect patients to HIV treatment and care.
• Collaborate with supervisor and staff and coordinate efforts to ensure successful delivery of services.
• Attend and participate in trainings, team/staff meetings, supervision, and other events as needed.
• Identify any problems, challenges, or obstacles in coordination of services, identify potential solutions, and resolve such problems, challenges, or obstacles in a timely manner, and ensure all duties and responsibilities are performed for effective and appropriate benefit of patients.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Heersink School of Medicine invites applications for an open-rank faculty position in the Department of Neurobiology. We are seeking candidates with experience in the area of substance use disorders and addictions, motivated behavior, or the consequences of drug experience on brain function. The Department of Neurobiology (link) is an established and well-funded department with over a quarter century of fundamental neuroscience discoveries. Faculty are housed in custom-designed laboratories and offices in the Shelby Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Building and nearby Civitan International Research Center. The department has strengths in the molecular mechanisms of neuronal function, synaptic communication and plasticity, and animal models of neuropsychiatric disorders, with technical approaches spanning molecular, genetic, cellular, systems, and behavioral levels of analysis. The Department of Neurobiology provides competitive start-up packages, modern laboratory space, excellent core facilities, a collaborative research environment, and world-class training programs. UAB is strongly committed to neuroscience research, and the department is expanding rapidly under new leadership.

Driven by an intensely collaborative and entrepreneurial character, UAB is one of the leading economic engines in Alabama, with a nearly $4 billion budget and a statewide economic impact exceeding $12.1 billion annually. UAB is Alabama’s largest employer with nearly 28,000 employees, and ranks in the top 10 among public universities for NIH funding, with total research expenditures exceeding $715 million in 2022. With nearly 1,700 faculty, 1,200 medical and graduate students, and 12,000 undergraduate students, UAB pursues the frontiers of education, research, and health care and strives to be one of the most dynamic and productive universities of the 21st century. Birmingham is a cosmopolitan city at the heart of a metropolitan area with a population of 1.1 million people. It is a rich cultural center and progressive community with low cost of living, moderate weather, and ample outdoor activities.

Successful applicants will join one of the strongest neuroscience environments in the country. The UAB Comprehensive Neuroscience Center (CNC) has more than 450 neuroscience research faculty, clinicians, staff, students & trainees representing 32 UAB departments across 9 UAB schools. The CNC serves as a focal point for basic and applied neuroscience research at UAB. In addition, UAB is home to several other neuroscience-related centers, including the Center for Addiction and Pain Prevention and Intervention (CAPPI), Civitan International Research Center (CIRC), Center for Neurodegeneration and Experimental Therapeutics (CNET), an NIH-funded Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute, and Hugh Kaul Precision Medicine Institute. UAB is one of 42 institutions with an NIH Clinical and Translational Science Award, which supports translational research and promotes junior investigators.

Candidates must have a Ph.D. and/or M.D in a related field and a strong record of research accomplishments. Faculty members are expected to establish or continue active independent research programs and to participate in education of professional, graduate, and undergraduate students. To ensure priority consideration, applications should be submitted by September 15, 2025, but applications will be considered until positions are filled. Applicants should submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, list of references, and brief summary of current and proposed research activities as a single PDF file.