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Posted: 15-Nov-22
Location: New York, New York
Type: Full Time
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Internal Number: 105172
The Department of Population Health (DPH) at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine invites applications for tenure-track faculty positions at the Assistant or Associate Professor level from candidates with a demonstrated portfolio of community-engaged and participatory research and expertise in one or more of the following areas:
- Health equity and disparities
- Patient-centered research and evaluation
- Mixed-methods approaches
- Applied prevention science
- Intervention design, implementation, evaluation, and dissemination
- Social determinants of health, including structural racism
Successful candidates will have a doctoral degree in relevant population sciences fields such as public health, implementation science, behavioral science, systems science, sociology, or anthropology, OR a medical degree with advanced training in health disparities and equity research and community-engaged or participatory research methods and approaches.
Successful applicants will join a vibrant department engaged in rigorous research with a strong and sustained focus on translation and health equity--locally, nationally and internationally. Interdisciplinary collaboration with clinical departments, basic science departments, public agencies and community partners is a hallmark of our work. The Department of Population Health is comprised of a diverse group of faculty and staff working on pressing challenges in New York City and around the world. The Department’s twin goals are to improve health for all while simultaneously reducing health inequities. The divisions, sections, and centers in the Department of Population Health engage in interdisciplinary research, training, and service to improve health and health equity at the population level. Together, the department’s six divisions house numerous sections and centers, spanning diverse disciplines including epidemiology, biostatistics, behavioral economics, medical ethics, and healthcare delivery science. Faculty in the Department of Population Health lead, co-lead, or substantively contribute to a strong portfolio of interdisciplinary and translational large collaborative grants.
NYU Grossman School of Medicine is one of the most dynamic and highly ranked academic medical centers in the nation. To advance its mission of health equity, the institution was the first in the nation to make medical school free, and an Institute for Excellence in Health Equity was launched in 2020 to improve health equity across research, education, clinical care and community.
Candidates should hold a PhD, DrPH, MD, or equivalent doctoral degree; have attained the rank of Assistant Professor or be eligible to be appointed at that rank; and be able to demonstrate scholarship through teaching, publications, and extramurally-funded research. The successful candidate must demonstrate excellent interpersonal, written and oral communication skills; and demonstrate success in effectively establishing and maintaining strong collaborations and partnerships with a diverse population of multi-disciplinary researchers, faculty, staff, and community and other stakeholder groups. Strong desire and commitment to research, teaching and practice in areas including but not limited to community-engaged and participatory research, racial/ethnic minority and immigrant health, health disparities, discrimination and structural racism, social determinants of health, and related topics.
For appointment to the rank of Associate Professor on the tenure track, the candidate must present evidence of excellent research and recognition of their research portfolio at a national level.
Interested candidates should submit a curriculum vitae and letter of interest in electronic form. The letter of interest should speak to research interests; training and research expertise in community-engaged and participatory approaches and methods; teaching experience/approach to mentoring trainees; and demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. The letter must specifically highlight how the candidate has developed and sustained community-engaged research partnerships, including articulating the types of stakeholders engaged, a description of the research project and how the stakeholders were engaged in the research, duration of engagement, strategies for engagement, and impact of partnerships. Candidates should also articulate how their partnership approach advances health equity. Candidates must apply through Interfolio: http://apply.interfolio.com/115432.
Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience.
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NYU Langone Health is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer committed to diversity and inclusion in all aspects of recruiting and employment. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration without regard to race, color, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital/or parental status, national origin, age, religion, citizenship, creed, disability, military and veteran status, genetic information or any other factor which cannot lawfully be used as a basis for an employment decision. We require applications to be completed online.
