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Job description
Assistant/Associate/Professor, Tenure Track (Open Rank)
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) School of Public and Population Health (SPPH) is the newest of five schools. SPPH began as the former Preventive Medicine and Population Health (PMPH) Department, established in 1912. As such, SPPH has a rich history of advancing preventive medicine and community health practice, education, and research for over 100 years! SPPH faculty are uniformly invested in leveraging research as a tool actualize our mission, which is to achieve 'Better Health for All'.
Within the Department of Population Health and Health Disparities (PHHD), our mission is to be positioned as the premier academic program leading research, scholarship, and education in population health in Texas with a national and global reach. Our vision is to help each community member to achieve better health. We are inviting our next faculty member to join us in actualizing that mission and vision. Our faculty members are aligned through our unified focus on preserving the health of aging adults (18 years and older) and advancing core value, which is to improve the health of populations. Together, we leverage team science within a thriving and welcoming environment where faculty respect and appreciate the multiple contrasts in the way we conduct research and the multidisciplinary approach we use in pursuit of population health.
Specific Job-Related Duties:
Conduct high quality research and disseminate findings through publications
Collaborate with researchers at UTMB and researchers at the local, regional, national, and/or global level
Obtain, sustain, and grow external funding for research and/or training programs
Participate on current UTMB research grants and contracts
Compete for, secure, and sustain funding for new projects
Teach SPPH courses
Advise and mentor graduate and/or medical students
Serve on thesis and dissertation committees
Required Qualifications:
At the level of Assistant, Associate or Full Professor
Have a PhD, DrPH, or equivalent degree
Sufficient years of related experience
A track record of funded research as PI and/or Co-I
Demonstrate familiarity with their specialty field
Illustrate experience with working with and/or building collaborative teams
Have a comprehensive understanding of a multidisciplinary academic health sciences environment
Preferred Qualifications: Experience in health policy or environmental health (e.g., environmental science, toxicology). Moderate to significant teaching or training experience. Master of Public Health preferred.
Supervisor: Mandy J. Hill, DrPH, MPH, Professor & Chair, Department of Population Health and Health Disparities
Salary: Commensurate with experience.
Location of Position: UTMB Galveston campus.
Equal Employment Opportunity
UTMB Health strives to provide equal opportunity employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by institutional policy or by federal, state or local laws unless such distinction is required by law. As a Federal Contractor, UTMB Health takes affirmative action to hire and advance protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.
Worksite address
galveston, TX, 77554, US
Who can apply
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