Executive Director, Computational Precision Health – University of California Berkeley
Posted: 12/4/2022 (Employment)
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) seek a dynamic and distinguished executive to serve as the Executive Director of the UCSF UC Berkeley Joint Program in Computational Precision Health (CPH). CPH leverages the world leadership in computer science, engineering and statistics at UC Berkeley, clinical care, research and informatics at UCSF, and population health at both institutions to transform personal and public health through computation. Our mission is to apply computation to real-world settings to prevent disease, improve prognosis, and reduce health inequities. CPH’s novel bi-campus departmental structure blends over 40 top computational and health faculty from both institutions into a singular unparalleled intellectual community, and recruits new world-class faculty into joint appointments at both UCSF and UCB. The deep partnership with UCSF Health provides a real-world laboratory for testing and deploying artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) tools in clinical practice and beyond to public health. Graduate programs that bridge the two campuses will train a new class of talent to think and live at the intersection of health and computation, providing an engine for innovations and a powerful draw for the best faculty in the world.
The Executive Director will help CPH realize its vast potential and meet its mission. The Executive Director develops and implements CPH’s long-term strategic vision and research impact areas, under the direction of the Faculty Directors. This requires designing, funding, and overseeing the implementation of research and strategic programs. Additionally, the Executive Director works closely with the Senior Administrative Officer to oversee administrative operations, finance, human resources and facilities for the Program. Specific responsibilities include ongoing landscape analysis, partnership development, technical grant writing including center and training grants, donor and sponsor stewardship, and personnel management. The position fosters linkages between faculty researchers and their counterparts in Foundations, NGOs, governments, and the private sector. They maintain relationships for evidence dissemination among academic partners and with journalists, policy-makers, and other decision-makers. In addition, the Executive Director develops and contributes to scientific conferences and publications that enrich the research community and broader computational health ecosystem. This position reports to the UCSF and UC Berkeley faculty directors of CPH.
Location: University of California, Berkely