Assistant Professor of Research

Why This Role Matters

This position is designed to strengthen the institution’s research infrastructure by expanding mentorship capacity, increasing scholarly productivity, and supporting student and faculty success. The individual in this role will play a central part in building and sustaining an active pipeline of scholarships across the medical school.

Specific Responsibilities

• Mentor students and faculty through the full research process
• Provide Hands-on Support Across All Phases Of Scholarship, Including refining research questions, selecting study designs, preparing IRB applications, coordinating data collection, supporting analysis and interpretation, developing abstracts and posters, drafting and revising manuscripts, guiding journal submission and dissemination
• Manage multiple small-scale research and scholarly projects at once, helping ensure that promising ideas do not stall and that teams continue making measurable progress toward presentation and publication
• Build scholarly output by contributing to an institutional culture that values productivity, rigor, and follow-through by helping generate: peer-reviewed publications, conference presentations, posters, faculty and student scholarly products, grant-ready project concepts
• Support grant development by assisting with internal and external grant development and helping students and faculty shape scholarly ideas into fundable projects when appropriate
• Contribute to teaching by carrying a modest teaching role based on expertise and interest. Teaching may include lectures, workshops, small-group sessions, or other educational activities related to research and scholarship within the medical school curriculum

The Ideal Candidate

The Ideal Candidate is a Faculty Member who is deeply collaborative and student-centered, highly organized and able to manage multiple active projects, comfortable working in an applied, fast-moving academic environment, skilled at translating ideas into feasible studies, committed to helping students and faculty publish their work, motivated by impact, mentorship, and institutional growth. This role is especially well suited for someone who enjoys the day-to-day work of mentoring others and helping them produce meaningful scholarships, rather than focusing solely on an independent research agenda.

Qualification(s) Required

• PhD in Public Health, Epidemiology, Population Health, Health Services Research, Biostatistics, Statistics, Clinical Research, Community or Global Health, Implementation Science, Biomedical or Health Informatics, Medical Sociology, Behavioral Health, Health Policy, Health Professions Education, Clinical and Translational Science, or another closely related discipline
• Relevant to applied health research and scholarship
• Demonstrated scholarly productivity, including peer-reviewed publications and presentations
• Experience mentoring students, trainees, or junior faculty in research or scholarly activity
• Demonstrated ability to independently manage multiple small-scale research projects annually
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work collaboratively across disciplines

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with medical students or in academic medicine
• Experience mentoring clinical faculty in research or scholarly activity
• Experience with IRB submissions, study design, data analysis, manuscript development, and journal submission
• Experience in rural health, underserved populations, community-based research, or health outcomes research
• Experience contributing to grant development and external funding efforts
• Prior teaching experience relevant to the medical school curriculum