Assistant Professor of Public Health (Tenure Track), Santa Clara University
The Public Health Program at Santa Clara University (SCU), a Jesuit, Catholic university, is seeking applicants for a tenure-track assistant professor faculty position. We seek a colleague with research and teaching interests in evidence-based health policy, program design/evaluation, and quantitative methods courses. Candidates must have a strong commitment to both teaching and research, and be able to establish an active research program involving undergraduate students.
Located in the heart of northern California’s Silicon Valley, SCU is a private, Catholic Jesuit liberal arts university committed to promoting social justice in a comprehensive educational setting. It is an AA/EOE employer. Faculty are teaching-scholars who balance a commitment to quality teaching with active programs of research. We assess candidates based on scholarly and teaching potential; contribution to University, College, and Department priorities; and potential to meet the criteria for promotion and tenure. This position is 40% teaching, 40% research, and 20% service. A full-time teaching load is 7 courses per year on a quarter system, with a 1-course reduction for research (typically 2/2/2). Administrative assignments may entail a further reduction in teaching load. Housing
assistance is available. This position is contingent upon the availability of funding.
Basic Qualifications:
– Doctoral degree in Public Health (PhD or DrPH) or a closely related
field
– prior undergraduate teaching experience
– record of active research.
Preferred Qualifications:
– community-involved research addressing structural/racial determinants
of health and racial health equity
– inclusive pedagogy geared toward undergraduate education
– external support of research activities (or the potential)
Responsibilities:
In addition to research and teaching, responsibilities include:
participation in departmental, college, and university-wide committees;
mentoring and advising undergraduate students; holding regular office
hours; curriculum development and improvement; and remaining current in
both subject area and teaching methodologies.
Required Documents:
– current CV
– personal statement(s) covering teaching philosophy experience working
with people of diverse cultures and identities
– statement describing research interests, including how they could be
implemented at an undergraduate institution and foster
intradepartmental/interdepartmental connections
– teaching evaluations for at least one course
– sample syllabi for at least once course
– two examples of scholarly work
– graduate transcripts (unofficial transcripts are acceptable at this
stage)
– *contact information* for three references
Additional Information:
Public Health Search Committee
Santa Clara University
500 El Camino Real
Santa Clara, CA 95053
Inquiries or letters of reference may be sent by email to phsc@scu.edu.
All applications must go through the Workday portal found at
scu.edu/hr/careers, or this direct link:
https://wd1.myworkdaysite.com/en-US/recruiting/scu/scu/job/Santa-Clara-CA/Assistant-Professor-of-Public-Health–Tenure-Track-_R872
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*Applications must be received by 10/16/2020.*
David E. Bell Postdoctoral Fellowship, The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (HCPDS)
The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (HCPDS) is currently accepting applications for the next cohort of the David E. Bell Postdoctoral Fellowship.
The deadline to apply is *Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at noon Eastern Time (U.S.)*.
The Bell Fellowship is an interdisciplinary, postdoctoral training program designed for researchers and practitioners in the fields of population sciences and/or population health. Through self-directed research, selected candidates examine a broad range of critical issues, most from within the
HCPDS’s focal areas: 1) social and environmental determinants of population health; 2) aging societies; 3) workplace & well-being; and 4) social/family demography. In addition to research and writing, fellows participate in weekly seminars, professional development and other skill building seminars, and communications & media skills training.
The salary is $65K/yr plus benefits and a generous research, travel, and relocation fund. The program is open to U.S. and international candidates.
For detailed information, visit www.hsph.harvard.edu/cpds or contact Lesley Harkins at popcenter@hsph.harvard.edu
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Carolina Population Center
The Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is inviting applications for a postdoctoral position funded as part of its NICHD-funded T32 population training program. The overall goal of the program is to create a cadre of future leaders in social science and
public health disciplines with the subject matter expertise, interdisciplinary orientation, population perspective, and data skills to address and have an impact on pressing issues in demography, population
health, and reproductive health. The initial term of appointment is one year. The preferred start date is July 2021, and must be no later than January 2022. Reappointment for a second (final year) of T32 support is expected.
Postdoctoral scholars must have received their PhD or earned doctoral degree in a social science or public health discipline before the start date of the traineeship. For additional information and application instructions, please visit our training program website:
https://www.cpc.unc.edu/training/population-science/postdoctoral/ or contact Abigail Haydon, Training Program Manager (ahaydon@email.unc.edu).
Research Group Leader, MPIDR
The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) is highly interested in hosting independent Max Planck Research Groups. We invite you to work with us and apply for a position as Max Planck Research Group Leader. Applications will need to be directed to the Max Planck Society. Detailed information as well as application instructions can be found in the official announcement:
https://www.mpg.de/career/max-planck-research-groups/applications
Each Research Group Leader will be offered a research group for 5 years at the Max Planck Institute of their choice.
Deadline: 22 October 2020.
Please contact us in case you plan to apply for leading a group at the MPIDR. Please direct your inquiries and any content-related questions to our Directors Mikko Myrskylä (sekmyrskyla@demogr.mpg.de) and Emilio Zagheni (sekzagheni@demogr.mpg.de).
Call for Abstracts: ASHEcon 2021
UW EarthLab Lunch & Learn Series: Panelist Invitation
Virtual EarthLab Lunch & Learn Series: Panelist Invitation
Dates: The first Tuesday of each month; October 2020-May 2021
Time: 12:30 – 2:00 PM Pacific Time
Website link: www.earthlab.uw.edu/lunch-learn-series
Co-sponsors: Washington Sea Grant; CHanGE; Urban@UW; Center for Global Studies, JSIS
Series Concept
The EarthLab Lunch & Learn series provides a space to learn more about the skills needed to collaborate across diverse fields and communities. Every second Tuesday of the month, two or more individuals from different backgrounds are invited to share lessons from their efforts to collaborate with each other. Such partnerships might include artists collaborating with scientists, researchers collaborating with community members, academics collaborating with practitioners, and researchers collaborating across wide disciplinary divides (e.g. sciences and humanities).
Event Description
The discussion will include reflection on challenges and opportunities encountered, the specific awareness and skills that were developed in order to collaborate, and recommendations for others attempting similar feats.
Compensation
Your expertise, experience, and time are important– we want to make sure that you as the panelist benefit from participating just as much as our audience does from your insights.
What we can offer:
We are offering a modest honorarium for non-salaried community presenters and student presenters. We are not able to provide honoraria to UW faculty and staff at this time. Social security numbers are required in order to receive payment from UW. In addition, we can offer the following benefits to all presenters:
· Audience – We utilize EarthLab’s various promotional channels including our quarterly newsletter (~20,000), EarthLab weekly mailing (~500), social media (~1,700). Our co-sponsors also share the event broadly through their networks.
· Recognition – Panelist bios will be included in promotion as well as shared during the event.
· Professional resources – This event will be recorded (with your permission) and will be made available on our website for the public to access. You are welcome to use this recording for your own professional purposes.
· Professional networking – This event is centered around collaboration and we encourage our event attendees to engage and reach out to panelists after the event to follow-up to continue the conversation.
Virtual Panel: A Conversation with Demographers of Color
Know your Rights & Building Power. A Conversation with Demographers of Color
Friday 9 October 2020, 9-10:30amPST (Oct 9 event reg)
This virtual panel discussion features five PhD demographers of color who know about family and caregiving. Panelists will share about their career and life experiences. Join us for a sincere discussion of pivots, resilience, and hope. We are organizing this panel in response to feedback gathered at the 1st ever member-organized Demographers of Color & Allies Reception in April. This event will include all-group and break-out components.
Panelists:
Vilna Bashi Treitler (Ph.D. in Sociology from University of Wisconsin-Madison, M.S. in Economics from University of Wisconsin-Madison, Master of International Affairs from Columbia University, B.A. in International Studies from University of South Florida, Tampa) is Professor in the Department of Black Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and a Professor of Sociology. Her scholarship and art centers on the intersection of race, migration, and inequality. Treitler is the author of The Ethnic Project: Transforming Racial Fictions into Ethnic Factions (2013) and Survival of the Knitted: Immigrant Social Networks in a Stratified World (2007). She is editor of Race in Transnational and Transracial Adoption, and co-editor (with Manuela Boatca), Dynamics of Inequalities in Global Perspective. Her works in progress include a National Science Foundation-funded study on race and adoption in the U.S. and Europe, and a new book on racial thought. Dr. Treitler is the 2020 recipient of the American Sociological Association’s Oliver Cox, Charles S. Johnson, and E. Franklin Frazier Award – “three African American scholars…[who] placed their scholarship in service to social justice, with an eye toward advancing the status of disadvantaged populations.” Dr. Treitler is also an artist, who works in oil on canvas and Masonite; and in pigment painted and fired on glass.
Evelyn Patterson (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, B.A. Rice University) is Associate Professor of Sociology and Associate Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University. She studies how the U.S. judicial system creates and perpetuates inequality. Drawing on her training in sociology, demography, and criminology, she studies the intergenerational transfer of racial and social inequalities in America with a particular focus upon social systems, organizations and institutions. Most of her work to date examines the role of the U.S. judicial system in creating and perpetuating inequality. Interaction with the judicial system disproportionately impacts marginalized populations by limiting their social mobility, blocking their economic opportunities, ensuring poor health outcomes, and minimizing their opportunities to escape the self-sustaining system of inequality embedded in America’s social structure. Dr. Patterson’s research applies demographic principles to investigate a variety of social problems and processes associated, broadly, with institutions and organizations. She situates the consequences of incarceration in an array of social processes, interrogating how incarceration as a social institution reconfigures and mutates other primary social institutions, including law, polity, education, kinship and economy.
Monique B. Williams (Ph.D. and M. A. in Demography from the University of Pennsylvania, B.A. in Urban Studies from Vanderbilt) is an Independent Consultant. Her company is called MBW Statistical Consulting. She advises C-suite executives and senior leaders of large-scale, federally-funded operations on data governance and providing services to customers. Before owning her own company full-time, Dr Williams worked as a Statistician for the U.S. Census, a Program Officer for the National Academies, and a Senior Statistician for the U. S. Government Accountability Office.
Dr. Tukufu Zuberi (Ph.D. in Sociology from University of Chicago, M.A. in Sociology from California State University, Sacramento, B.A. in Sociology from San José State University) is the Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations, and Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His research asks what it means to be a human, a citizen, and a person. Dr. Zuberi’s books include Thicker than Blood: How Racial Statistics Lie (2001); Africa Independence: How Africa Shapes the World (2015); Black Words and Memory Before the Destruction (forthcoming). He also edited the General Demography of Africa series and, with Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, White Logic, White Methods: Racism and Methodology. From 2003 to 2014, Dr. Zuberi hosted the Public Broadcasting System series History Detectives. His documentaries include African Independence and Before Things Fell Apart. Born Antonio McDaniel to Willie and Annie McDaniel, and raised in the housing projects of “Tassafaronga” in Oakland, California, he later embraced the name Tukufu Zuberi – Swahili for “beyond praise” and “strength.” He took the name because of a desire to make and have a connection with an important period in which social movements in the United States and other nations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America were challenging what it means to be a human being.
Moderators:
Mao-Mei Liu (Ph.D. in Political and Social Sciences from Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Masters in Education and Political and Social Sciences from UPF, B.S. in Molecular Biophysics and Molecular Biochemistry from Yale) is Research Faculty in the Department of Demography. Before UC Berkeley, Mao-Mei was a NIH/NICHD Postdoctoral Fellow (T32) at Brown University’s Population Studies and Training Center. Before and during graduate school, she worked as a community organizer for the Greater Four Corners Action Coalition in Dorchester and SEIU in Oakland, K-12 teacher in Barcelona & area, inter-cultural mediator in the Barcelona area and graduate researcher for the MAFE, Migration between Africa and Europe project. She will be a National Institutes of Health Reentry Scholar starting Jan 2021.
Omari H. Swinton (Ph.D. in Economics from Duke University, B.S. in Economics from Florida A&M) is an associate professor in the Economics department at Howard University where he teaches introductory, intermediate, and urban economics. He is currently the Director of Graduate Studies and Chair of the Economics Department. His research interests include labor economics and education. He currently is working on projects that examine the returns to effort for students, the obstacles to faculty diversity in higher education, and benefits of attending an HBCU. Dr. Swinton is the immediate Past President of the National Economics Association, which was founded in 1969 as the Caucus of Black Economists to promote the professional lives of minorities within the profession.
This event is hosted by the Demographers of Color collective (organizers Asad L. Asad, Christina J. Cross, Gniesha Dinwiddie, Nadia Flores, René D. Flores, Lisa Kaida, Hedwig Lee, Mao-Mei Liu, Juan Pedroza, Ndola Prata, Fernando Riosmena, Gabriela Sanchez-Soto, Omari H. Swinton, Eddie Telles, Monique B. Williams, Xing Sherry Zhang)
Future DOC events (usually 2nd Fridays): Nurturing Family & PhDs. 10am-11:30amPST (Nov 13 event reg) | Round of Gratitude Dec 11 10am-11:30amPST (Dec 11 event reg) | Connection & Hope Jan 8 10am-11:30amPST (Jan 8 event reg)
Call for Abstracts: PAA 2021 Applied Demography Conference
Call for Papers: Early-Career Behavioral Economics Conference.
The Seventh Early-Career Behavioral Economics Conference (ECBE) will take place at Princeton University on the 3-4 June 2021. The conference provides a platform for early- or mid-career researchers, including graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, and assistant or associate professors, to present and receive feedback on their research. The conference is sponsored by the Russell Sage Foundation and will be hosted by the Department of Economics at Princeton University. Roland Benabou (Princeton University) will be the plenary speaker.. Applications are due by December 15, 2020, and selected participants will be notified by the beginning of March. For more information, please visit the conference website: https://sites.google.com/site/ecbeconference, or contact http://ecbe2021@gmail.com.
Click here to apply and submit your papers.
Note: the committee is optimistically planning to hold ECBE 2021 in-person. However, as the date of the conference approaches, they will monitor the current health guidelines. If it is not feasible to hold an in-person workshop, they may hold a virtual version of the conference instead.