Assistant/Associate Professor in Global Health

Assistant/Associate Professor in Global Health

About Northeastern:
Founded in 1898, Northeastern University is a global research university and the recognized leader in experience-driven lifelong learning. Our world-renowned experiential approach empowers our students, faculty, alumni, and partners to create impact far beyond the confines of discipline, degree, and campus.

Our locations—in Boston; Charlotte, North Carolina; London; Portland, Maine; San Francisco; Seattle; Silicon Valley; Toronto; Vancouver; and the Massachusetts communities of Burlington and Nahant—are nodes in our growing global university system. Through this network, we expand opportunities for flexible, student-centered learning and collaborative, solutions-focused research.

Northeastern University is situated on the Avenue of the Arts in Boston's historic Back Bay, four blocks from the Longwood Medical Area, encompassing Harvard Medical School, Children's Hospital Boston, Brigham & Women's Hospital, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and eight blocks from the Boston Medical Center. Northeastern University has an enrollment of more than 17,000 undergraduate and 7,000 graduate students and approximately 4,300 faculty and staff. Situated in downtown Boston on a campus deemed an arboretum with its 1,400 trees representing 143 different species, it is one of the nation's most dynamic private educational institutions.

The Bouve College of Health Sciences has over 200 faculty members, with approximately 2,000 undergraduate and 2,400 graduate students. It is the leading national model for education and research in the health, psychosocial and biomedical sciences and supports the University's missions both of educating students for a life of fulfillment and accomplishment and of creating and translating knowledge to meet global and societal needs. Aligned with Northeastern University's commitment to interdisciplinary research and community engagement, we work collaboratively across University entities.

The Department of Health Sciences is an interdisciplinary department in the Bouve College of Health Sciences, one of nine colleges at Northeastern University. We provide a world-class education in a broad range of public health and clinical careers that promote the health and well-being of individuals, communities, and populations in culturally diverse contexts. We are committed to evidence-based research and research translation to eliminate health disparities. Our department is a unique, transdisciplinary setting that incorporates teaching, learning, and serving, in a rapidly evolving, multicultural environment that includes perspectives based on diversity by race, ethnicity, class, ability, language, gender, sexuality, age and nationality. The Department of Health Sciences currently includes 45 faculty engaged in research, teaching, and practice, many of whom are jointly appointed in other schools within Bouve and in other colleges across the University. The department is undergoing a significant, multi-year expansion in size and scope and has increased by 25% in full-time faculty and over 150% in graduate students since 2017. Our undergraduate program has experienced even more robust growth, increasing from 127 students in 2008 to over 900 in 2021. It is playing a central role in expanding public health programs university-wide.

About the Opportunity:
The Department of Health Sciences in the Bouve College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University seeks applications for an Assistant or Associate level tenured/tenure track faculty member with an innovative research program in global public health. Northeastern is a globally networked university with rapidly expanding research partnerships and experiential education around the world. While the disproportionate burden of non-communicable diseases has cast a shadow over the 21st century, the COVID-19 pandemic shows the persistent, destructive impact posed by infectious diseases. The evolving, complex, and mutually reinforcing ways in which these two issues present challenges to population health necessitate new models for public health, in addition to traditional approaches such as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals to alleviate poverty, social inequalities, and preventable disease. Examples of possible specialty areas include global disease surveillance, health impacts of climate change, global health policy, global social inequities, and technological/digital innovation in global health.

At Northeastern University, there is a strong interest in global health from students across the university. There is a university-wide interdisciplinary minor in Global Health and the undergraduate and graduate curricula include courses in global health at all levels and global perspectives on many public health and health care issues within courses. Northeastern University prioritizes research that solves global challenges, through collaborative, cross-disciplinary and experience-powered solutions. World-renowned existing collaborations include faculty within the Integrated Initiative for Global Health, Global Resilience Institute, the Network Science Institute, the Institute on Health Equity and Social Justice Research, and all across the university. Northeastern works to inspire a global mindset across the entire university community. This position and others being added across the university (see www.northeastern.edu/diversity) will greatly expand our capacity to teach and to conduct cutting-edge research in the global health field. The tenure home for this position will be the Department of Health Sciences, with the possibility of a joint appointment in another suitable department.

Our tenure and promotion process values collaborative research and teamwork. Hires will be mentored for success, with mentoring teams and group guidance. In addition, a strong and effective faculty development strategy is part of the Northeastern institutional mission. The ADVANCE Office of Faculty Development office works in conjunction with the Office of Research Development (ORD), the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion (OIDI), the Center for Advancing Teaching and Learning Through Research (CATLR), and University Decision Support (UDS) to provide programs and trainings to further develop and support a thriving faculty.

At Northeastern University, we embrace a culture of respect, where each person is valued for their contribution and is treated fairly. We oppose all forms of racism. We support a culture that does not tolerate any form of discrimination and where each person may belong. We strive to have a diverse membership, one where each person is trained and mentored to promote their success.

Northeastern University is an equal opportunity employer, seeking to recruit and support a broadly diverse community of faculty and staff. Northeastern values and celebrates diversity in all its forms and strives to foster an inclusive culture built on respect that affirms inter-group relations and builds cohesion.

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Northeastern has identified health as one of three major University-wide interdisciplinary strategic initiatives, and the University is making a major investment in interdisciplinary health research with faculty hires in the last few years in data science and visualization (with a health data emphasis), environmental health, global health, health economics, health systems, health policy, personal health informatics, and population health.

Responsibilities:
Responsibilities for this individual will include teaching undergraduate and graduate courses, conducting an independent and externally funded research program, and participating in departmental, college, and university service. Qualified candidates must have expertise in, or a demonstrated commitment to, working with diverse student populations and/or in a culturally diverse work and educational environment.

Qualifications:
Doctoral degree in public health, epidemiology, health economics, computer science, political science, or a closely-related discipline is required by the appointment start date. We seek candidates whose work reflects the importance of population diversity and who value different points of view in teaching and research collaborations. Candidates for the rank of Associate Professor should have a strong track record of scholarship commensurate with rank and teaching, including peer-reviewed publications and a demonstrated ability to secure external funding for research. All candidates must demonstrate commitment to teaching courses in population health, global health, social determinants of health, and/or other related subjects.

Additional Information:
Interested candidates should apply here with a cover letter that lists the names of 3 references, a CV, and statements on your (1) teaching, (2) research, and (3) contributions to achieving a diverse and inclusive academic environment. For questions about the position, please contact Drs. Daniel Kim and Richard Wamai, Search Committee Chairs, at d.kim@northeastern.edu and r.wamai@northeastern.edu. Applications received by December 31, 2021 will receive full consideration; however, applications will be accepted after this date until the position is filled.

Successful faculty at Northeastern will be dynamic and innovative scholars with research and teaching excellence and a commitment to contributing to improved equity, diversity, and inclusion. Thus, strong candidates for this faculty position will have the expertise, knowledge, and skills to build their research, pedagogy, and curriculum in ways that reflect and enhance this commitment. Please indicate how your expertise, knowledge, and skills have prepared you to contribute to this work with written statements addressing the following prompts:

Research statement:
Please describe the focus of your research, including the questions you have identified, the funding you have received to support the work (if applicable), the results you have discovered, and the products of these efforts. Please also describe any research you have undertaken with students, with the external community, and/or with individuals from marginalized groups. Finally, please outline the research directions you foresee pursuing in the Bouve College of Health Sciences.

Teaching statement:
Please summarize your past instructional and/or mentorship experiences, your pedagogical philosophy, your plans/goals for teaching in the Bouve College of Health Sciences (including existing and proposed courses), and your strategies for teaching and mentoring a diverse cohort of undergraduate and graduate students.

Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity statement:
Please provide an example of a time when you altered or changed your approach to research, teaching, or service because of the diversity of the group you were working with or your awareness of marginalized populations. What changes did you make? Did they have the effects that you hoped for at the time? What did you learn from this situation? How would you expect to apply what you learned from this situation as a faculty member in the Bouve College of Health Sciences? We are interested in how you handled and learned from a past situation, not the identities of the people involved, so please only disclose what you are comfortable with.


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