The Henry M. Jackson Foundation operates as the research infrastructure backbone for military medicine, managing clinical trials, regulatory compliance, and program logistics across trauma, neurological injury, and emerging threat domains. The research-heavy hiring mix (122 research roles out of 183 active openings) reflects operational scale: they're simultaneously running MDMA-assisted PTSD trials, TBI cognition studies, directed-energy health research, and trauma resuscitation protocols—all requiring parallel clinical trial management and participant safety oversight.
Notable leadership hires: Clinical Research Director, Head Instructor
HJF is a congressional-chartered nonprofit (founded 1983) based in Bethesda, Maryland, that bridges military medical research and clinical practice. They provide program management, research administration, and clinical trial oversight services for investigators and clinicians across the U.S. military health system and veteran populations. The organization manages a portfolio spanning trauma care, neuropsychiatric conditions, occupational health, and emerging medical threats, working to remove administrative friction so researchers can focus on discovery. With 1,001–5,000 employees and 183 active job openings, HJF operates at meaningful operational scale, supported by a tech stack anchored in clinical data standards (HL7, FHIR, SNOMED CT), analytics (SAS, Tableau, Looker), and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure).
HJF is a nonprofit research organization chartered by Congress in 1983 to advance military medicine. They manage clinical research, trials, and program administration for military medical investigators, clinicians, and the veteran healthcare system.
Active projects include MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD, traumatic brain injury (TBI) cognition research, musculoskeletal injury treatment, directed-energy health effects, trauma resuscitation, and post-crash emergency care protocols.
HJF uses clinical data standards (HL7, FHIR, SNOMED CT), analytics platforms (SAS, Tableau, Looker, SPSS, GraphPad Prism), cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure), and research management tools (Smartsheet, ServiceNow) to support program administration and data collection.
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