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Lead Researcher, Behavioral Health

New York City, NY, us💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-16 → 2026-07-31

Core

Developing and communicating data-driven policy solutions for behavioral health and trauma to reduce violence and improve outcomes for justice-involved people.

Role type

Lead Researcher, Behavioral Health

Builds

Strategic research agendas, therapeutic curricula, policy insights, and integrated data dashboards

Domain

Public safety, criminal justice policy, behavioral health, trauma-informed care

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery

Required skills

Strategic research agenda development, evidence-based policy translation, curriculum design, stakeholder partnership management, causal inference conceptualization, indicator development, funded study management

Preferred skills

None stated

Technologies

None stated

Responsibilities

Generate strategic behavioral health and trauma research agenda; leverage existing evidence on behavioral health and trauma; design and adapt curricula for therapeutic supports; translate research to inform policy; partner with communities and justice-involved people; develop meaningful indicators for data dashboards; conceptualize causal inferences for policy questions; manage funded studies with external partners

Seniority

Lead, hands-on IC with strategic oversight

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