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Chair, Associate/Full Professor, Tenure Track, Biostatistics or Epidemiology – Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

The Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology (https://publichealth.ouhsc.edu/Departments-Centers/Biostatistics- Epidemiology) is housed within the Hudson College of Public Health, Oklahoma’s only CEPH-accredited School of Public Health (https://publichealth.ouhsc.edu/). The College offers graduate degree programs with concentrations in Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Health Administration and Policy, Health Promotion Sciences, and Occupational and Environmental Health. We have a rapidly growing undergraduate program in Public Health. The Department comprises 25 full time faculty and approximately 75 graduate students in MPH, MS, and PhD programs. Faculty perform active research in the analysis of longitudinal and other correlated data, survival analysis methods, clinical trials methodologies, Bayesian statistics, survey sampling methods, statistical genetics, high-dimensional data analysis, health disparities, tobacco control, communicable diseases, trauma-related health outcomes, environmental exposures and reproductive outcomes and cancer prevention and control. Annual grant and contract funding exceeds $11 million.

Due to current and future needs, the successful candidate will have the immediate opportunity to recruit Biostatistics and/or Epidemiology faculty to support the implementation of the OUHSC Research Strategic Plan and the growth of undergraduate and online programs.

Department Chair/Head – Public Health Sciences – Clemson University

Clemson University’s Department of Public Health Sciences is seeking applications for the position of Department Chair, a tenure-line position with faculty rank of Full Professor, to begin July 1, 2023. The Chair will report directly to the Dean of the College of Behavioral, Social and Health Sciences (CBSHS), which includes the following departments: Communication; Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management; Political Science; Psychology; Public Health Sciences; Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice; and the School of Nursing.

The Clemson University Department of Public Health Sciences (DPHS) works to improve health service delivery and public health practice through integration of our innovative research, teaching and service. DPHS employs 23 full-time faculty and 5 post-doctoral fellows and is one of the university’s fastest growing departments. Within DPHS, our faculty disciplines include epidemiology, biostatistics and informatics; community health promotion and behavior; and health administration and policy. On average, our tenure-track faculty published 6.8 peer-reviewed journal articles in 2021 and generated over $6,000,000 in research awards. Faculty lead research projects have been funded by the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US Department of Agriculture, US Department of Defense, as well as national, regional, and local foundations. Our national and global research is diverse and includes topics such as rural health, addiction, cancer, obesity and other chronic diseases, aging, infectious disease, and health policy.

Inaugural Divisional Dean, School of Public and Population Health – Boise State University

his is an exciting opportunity to join a supportive and inclusive environment at Boise State University. Having been nationally recognized for innovation and obtaining its Carnegie Classification in 2016, Boise State University is a growing research institution (R2) and uniquely positioned in the Northwest as an innovative metropolitan and research university of distinction. Powered by creativity and innovation, Boise State seeks the inaugural Divisional Dean for the new School of Public and Population Health (SPPH) within the College of Health Sciences.

The new School of Public and Population Health is an evolution of the thriving and productive Department of Public Health and Population Science. The Department was just recently approved as a School by the Idaho State Board of Education. The School will build on the Department’s history of success in community engagement, applied scholarship, and research; lead and continue to grow the thriving undergraduate and the MPH programs; and implement new doctoral programming.

The Position

As the executive leader for the School of Public and Population Health, the Divisional Dean provides leadership for the School and exercises responsibility for its academic and administrative operations; including budget, personnel, programs, and physical facilities. The ideal candidate is a strategic visionary and forward-thinking innovative leader with an astute understanding of fundraising and budget projections. Through consultation with the college dean and School faculty and staff, the Divisional Dean establishes a vision in setting priorities, maintaining academic standards, and strengthening faculty scholarship and research.

Areas of responsibility include leadership functions associated with overall direction and strategic planning; fiscal management and resource development; new school, program, and partner development; coordinating with leaders and partners outside of the department; working with leadership to raise funds; and mentoring faculty and staff and assessing team members’ performance.

The Divisional Dean reports directly to the Dean of the College of Health Sciences and participates in a shared governance system with faculty, staff, and students.

Tenure Track Public Health and MPH Program Director – University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St. Louis

Are you interested in advancing health equity and having a global impact? The University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St. Louis (UHSP) recently made a multi-million-dollar investment to launch the College of Global Population Health, the first of its kind in the US with a global emphasis on population health. The vision of the college is to transform the health outcomes of populations near and far to create a more equitable future for all.

They are seeking a 12-month tenure track open rank faculty position in public health with teaching (50%) and research (30%) responsibilities, and 20% service. The anticipated start date would be Spring 2023 and hybrid work arrangements are possible. Salary is competitive with CEPH accredited programs, along with a generous benefits and startup package.

Program Manager, Psychology and Health Sciences – University of California Berkeley

The Program Manager of Psychology and Health Sciences is responsible for the implementation and management of Psychology/Behavioral Health Sciences programs. Will assist the Program Director to manage a team of Program Coordinators, Program Specialists, and Student Advisors.

In collaboration with Program Director and Recruitment Specialist, the Program Manager of Psychology and Health Sciences will manage instructor recruitment, onboarding, and relations. Will also manage program and course planning and scheduling, assessment processes, student conduct procedures, academic advising, budgeting, analysis, reporting, and inter and intra-department communications. Collaborate with Admissions Services, Student Services, and Career Services to provide excellent student support.

Assistant Vice President for Employee Services, Chief Human Resources Officer – Worcester State University

This is a remarkable opportunity for a results-driven leader skilled in best HR practices to serve as the Assistant Vice President for Employee Services, Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) at Worcester State University. The successful candidate is responsible for the overall administration, coordination and evaluation of compensation and benefits, talent acquisition, learning and development, employee relations, HR systems and strategy, and employment policy development.

The next CHRO functions as a member of the senior management team responsible for instituting policies and procedures that provide effective internal management of the organization. Additionally, this position is responsible for accelerating organizational performance through strategic planning and organizational effectiveness.

The Assistant Vice President for Employee Services, Chief Human Resources Officer is responsible for the leadership, direction, and administration of the human resources and payroll operations for a public university. The incumbent is responsible for providing strategic leadership to guide the University’s efforts to appropriately staff its departments to achieve the mission and goals of the strategic plan.

This position reports to the Vice President of Administration & Finance/CFO and is a member of the President’s Executive Cabinet.

Executive Director, Computational Precision Health – University of California Berkeley

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.

Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences *Exciting* Lecture Series

Please join CSSS for a series of lectures at the cutting edge of statistics and the social sciences.  The lecture series started on November 30 and continues through December 5, 6, and 7 from 12:30-1:30pm each day.

 

*Wednesday, November 30, 12:30-1:30

Ayse Lokmanoglu (Northwestern) (recording)

Title: Unpacking Information Pollution: Computational Critical Methods in examining Digital Communication

Abstract: The rise of social media platforms and digital communication opened new transnational spaces for ‘good’ and ‘bad’ actor communication. My research focuses on the information pollution in social media produced by the ‘bad’ actors, including hate speech, violent extremist communication, dis-/misinformation, and state-sponsored propaganda. In this talk, through three studies, I will present my work answering 1) How do we make sense of meaning embedded in digital content, and 2) How do we understand the relationship of the offline with the digital content?  In order to examine global digital content, my work integrates computational text and visual analysis methods with critical theory. Each study looks at different types of content (gendered online forums, tweets and news articles) in multiple languages to illustrate polluted information within ‘banal’ content. In each of the studies, I will demonstrate the computational methods and how I connect the online content on gender and science misinformation to the offline content.  Although there are a lot of challenges in examining information pollution in global digital media, I conclude my talk by expanding on future research on new projects developing tools and measurements to minimize the methodological limitations and integrate different types of content such as images. My work has implications for understanding the online strategic communication of “bad actors” and how to mitigate harms while developing computational methods integrating critical cultural theory.

 

 

*Monday, December 5 at 12:30pm via Zoom linkhttps://washington.zoom.us/j/99447824370

Noli Brazil (UC-Davis)

TitleDisparities in Exposure Risk to Environmental Disadvantage in Neighborhood Networks Formed by Urban Mobility Flows 

Abstract: A large body of research has been dedicated to understanding the neighborhood conditions that impact health, which outcomes are affected, and how these effects vary by demographic and socioeconomic neighborhood and individual characteristics. This literature has focused mostly on the neighborhoods in which individuals reside, thus failing to recognize that residents across race/ethnicity and class spend a non-trivial amount of their time in neighborhoods far from their residential settings. If residents from poor and minority neighborhoods spend significant time outside of their residential settings and travel to other disadvantaged neighborhoods beyond those that are geographically adjacent, we are underestimating their level of isolation from environments of opportunity and the role of neighborhood conditions in explaining spatial racial inequality. With this project, I use 2018-2019 anonymized mobile phone data to compare racial and socioeconomic inequality in exposure to neighborhood disadvantage in US cities across three scales: the neighborhoods that residents live in, their bordering neighborhoods, and the neighborhoods they visit.

 

*Tuesday, December 6 at 12:30 pm via zoom: https://washington.zoom.us/j/94075574557

Sasha Shen Johfre (Stanford)

Title: Tools for interrogating inequality in precise and ethical ways

Abstract: Sociologists and other social scientists have a long history of studying the social construction of human difference. Constructs like gender, race, and class are carefully characterized, including their links to processes of inequality. However, it is easy to forget in our daily work that social science researchers are particularly powerful actors in such construction processes, as we help shape the frameworks and truths about the social world that get applied in everyday settings. Given this cultural power, how can social scientists interrogate systems of difference and inequality in ethical and precise ways? In this talk, I describe conceptual and methodological tools I have developed for researchers to be able to conduct more rigorous and socially responsible science about social categories. I then show examples of how I have applied these frameworks in my own work, helping add depth to empirical research on social construction processes. In this and my other research, teaching, and public engagement, I focus on creating tools that help people (both scholars and laypeople) understand, critique, and intentionally engage in social processes.

 

*Wednesday, December 7, 12:30-1:30 via zoom https://washington.zoom.us/j/97131021824

Austin Kozlowski (U. Chicago)

 

*Thursday, December 8, 12:30-1:30pm via zoom https://washington.zoom.us/j/96109179342

Emily Gade (Emory)

Postdoc Position at the Max Planck-University of Helsinki Centre for Social Inequalities in Population Health

The Max Planck – University of Helsinki Center for Social Inequalities in Population Health is a new major joint initiative of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), Germany, and the University of Helsinki, Finland. To achieve the Center’s vision of unearthing the pivotal social processes that generate health inequalities, it leverages linked family-based data, natural experimental designs, genetically-informed social epidemiological data, advanced dynamic modelling techniques, and a combination of theoretical frameworks.

The Center is currently seeking to appoint one or more full-time post-doctoral researchers to contribute to its research theme on methodological innovation. We welcome applications from researchers with a PhD in demography, statistics, epidemiology, sociology, economics, computer science, or a similar field. The successful candidate will work on one or several of the research strands within the Center’s research theme on methods: longitudinal data analysis, causal inference, and machine learning approaches. More specific topics include, but are not limited to, multistate models, Mendelian randomization, and supervised learning to assess effect heterogeneity. The successful candidate will develop their own methodological agenda within the research theme, and they will contribute their skills and knowledge to applications in the Center’s other research themes. We are seeking creative, self-driven, and collaborative scholars. Knowledge of advanced programming in R, Python, or Stata is an advantage.

Post-Doctoral Positions (BIOSFER) – Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR)

BIOSFER – “Untangling the Social and Biological Determinants of Fertility in Modern Societies” – is a major new research initiative funded by the ERC Synergy grant program that brings together scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), the Center for Fertility and Health at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, and Aarhus University in Denmark. BIOSFER investigates how social, biological and psychological forces produce the emerging fertility patterns in young adults, and to what extent the polarization of fertility outcomes across social strata can be attributed to social and biomedical factors. Key questions include how fecundity clusters across social strata, whether this clustering can help to explain socially patterned fertility outcomes, and how knowledge of fecundity and fertility behavior are related.

The MPIDR is currently seeking to appoint two or more full-time post-doctoral researchers to contribute to BIOSFER’s research agenda. The successful candidate will work on one or more of the key research arms of BIOSFER. These include understanding how fecundity, fertility ideals, and fertility behavior co-evolve over the life course; how intergenerational exposures may program fertility; the joint dynamics of fecundity, fertility, and partnership formation; and how knowledge about fecundity and age-related fecundity decline influence fertility behavior.