Department: Epidemiology & Population Health Location: Health Sciences Center Time Type: Full time Worker Type: Regular Job Req ID: R109274 Position Description: The Department of Epidemiology and Population Health in the School of Public Health and Information Sciences at the University of Louisville is seeking applicants for a tenure-track, open rank faculty position. Applicants must have a doctoral degree in
epidemiology. Applicants should have a strong record of peer-reviewed publications. Extramural funding as a principal investigator is required for consideration at the Associate or Full Professor level. Applicants should show good potential for developing and maintaining a nationally recognized portfolio of research, and experience in teaching and mentoring in both epidemiologic methods and an appropriate content
area. The School of Public Health and Information Sciences (SPHIS) is located on the University of Louisville Health Sciences Center campus, which includes the schools of Medicine, Nursing and Dentistry. SPHIS is fully accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health. The Department of Epidemiology and Population Health has MPH (in-person), MS (online) and PhD (in-person) curricula in epidemiology, and an
undergraduate minor in epidemiology. All tenure-track and tenured faculty are expected to teach, pursue research funding and engage in relevant service. Candidates for this position opening will be expected to develop new courses, when necessary, related to their specialization and methodology in keeping with the expansion of the teaching mission of the department. Faculty members of the Department of Epidemiology
and Population Health currently specialize in diverse areas of research and teaching including: eating disorders, nutrition, obesity and body composition; cancer, cardiometabolic diseases, molecular biomarkers for chronic diseases; long-term consequences of diagnosed cancers on quality of life; women’s maternal-child and reproductive health; health disparities; global health; environmental exposures on health;
interactions among genetic, behavioral societal and environmental factors; and prevention of infectious diseases including efficacy of vaccines,. Faculty members enjoy strong research collaborations with other departments in SPHIS and across the university. The university is home to several centers and institutes relevant to this position including the Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute, Center for Integrated
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