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Student Communications Assistant, Human and Planetary Health
The Stanford Center for Human and Planetary Health (HPH) is excited to recruit a new student Communications Assistant to help raise the profile of Stanford’s human and planetary health research, experts, and events. This opportunity is available starting in September 2026, and is ideal for a student that can commit for at least fall quarter.
The HPH Communications Assistant will be an important member of the small and collaborative Center. Responsibilities will include: maintaining HPH’s website; managing HPH’s blog, HPH Voices - including outreach to students; designing flyers to promote HPH events and other opportunities; collecting and sharing media coverage of Stanford human and planetary health research; producing drafts of HPH’s weekly newsletter; creating slides about the Center, and other miscellaneous branding, communications, events, and outreach tasks.
Click here to learn more. To apply, please send application materials to Jannis Seymens (jseymens@stanford.edu).
Interdisciplinary Researcher, Project Unleaded
Project Unleaded is seeking a flexible, collaborative interdisciplinary scientist who can work both independently and as part of a team of researchers, government partners, and NGOs. The ideal candidate is an interdisciplinary global environmental health researcher with experience spanning supply chain investigation, environmental or market-based sampling and behavior or mixed-methods research.
The Interdisciplinary Researcher will conduct and support studies examining lead contamination in spices and other consumer products - including identifying and coordinating with partners, sampling across supply chain nodes, tracking and documenting results and mapping how and why populations use products with elevated lead content. The Interdisciplinary Researcher will use those findings to design and recommend interventions to reduce lead exposure. The individual should be comfortable moving between lab-adjacent sampling work and qualitative field research in diverse contexts including, but not limited to South and Central Asia and North Africa.
To learn more and apply, please visit the Stanford Careers page.
Applied Scientific Researcher, Project Unleaded
Project Unleaded, within the Center for Human and Planetary Health at the Woods Institute for the Environment, is seeking an Applied Scientific Researcher to support and advance research to identify and prioritize the most important sources of lead poisoning globally, develop and test interdisciplinary interventions to mitigate and eliminate these sources, and advance field-appropriate rapid measurement techniques to detect lead in humans and the environment. The Applied Scientific Researcher will oversee the development and application of lead detection methods for a range of media, from contaminated consumer products to environmental samples like air, dust, and soil. The Applied Scientific Researcher will work closely with the Director while operating in a multidisciplinary, collaborative environment. The work will have broad scientific and public health impact in the field of environmental health. The successful candidate will be highly independent, organized, enthusiastic, and a motivated problem solver, who enjoys working in a collaborative, interdisciplinary environment.
For more details and to apply, please visit the Stanford Careers page.