Assistant Professor - Tenure Track

Description

The Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, seeks a scholar for faculty appointment at the academic rank of Assistant Professor on the tenure-track.

The successful candidate will contribute to the Department’s well-established strengths in social epidemiology. Individuals with strong methodological backgrounds will be preferred, especially candidates whose teaching and scholarship emphasize theory and methods underlying social determinants of health.

Candidates for tenure-track positions must demonstrate the potential to become independent investigators and graduate-level teachers.

Departmental Overview

• Over 50 primary faculty with a wide range of research interests
• Additional 70 joint faculty members holding primary appointments in other departments
• 60 adjunct faculty, many affiliated with the neighboring Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Cancer Society
• Mission: Address complex public health challenges through rigorous research, communication, and training the next generation of public health advocates
• Diversity: A strength aimed to be cultivated
• Competitive salaries, excellent medical and retirement benefits, a wide array of personal and professional resources, and an outstanding community of students and scholars with diverse professional and life experiences
• Research Centers: State Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Program, Center for Public Health Preparedness and Research, Emory Alliance for Vaccine Epidemiology, Center for Spina Bifida Research, Prevention, and Policy, Emory Program in Cardiovascular Outcomes Research and Epidemiology (EPICORE), Tuberculosis Research Advancement Center, PRISM Health (Programs, Research and Innovation for Sexual and Minority Health) Research Group
• Degrees Offered: MPH, MSPH and PhD degrees; collaboration in offering a Masters of Science in Clinical Research degree for biomedical investigators

Mission and Community

The mission of the Department of Epidemiology is to address complex public health challenges through rigorous research, communication, and training the next generation of public health advocates. The diversity of our community is a strength that we aim to cultivate.

Benefits

• Highly competitive salaries
• A wide array of personal and professional resources
• An outstanding community of students and scholars with diverse professional and life experiences

Application Information

Applicants must apply through the Emory Careers Website and should also send a letter indicating their interest accompanied by a curriculum vitae to: Tené T. Lewis, PhD., Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, by email tene.t.lewis@emory.edu.

Screening of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. Starting date is negotiable.

Applications will be considered confidential and references will not be contacted without the permission of applicants.

You may visit our website at: https://sph.emory.edu/departments/epidemiology.

Note: Position tasks are generally required to be performed in-person at an Emory University location. Remote work from home day options may be granted at department discretion.

Emory reserves the right to change remote work status with notice to employee.

Additional Details:

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