Overview
The UTHealth Houston School of Public Health invites applicants to fill three multiple rank tenure-track faculty positions at the San Antonio location. For more information about the UTHealth Houston School of Public Health and the San Antonio location, please access the following link: https://sph.uth.edu/campuses/san-antonio. The faculty will report to the San Antonio Regional Dean and their respective Department Chair (Biostatistics and Data Sciences; Epidemiology; Environmental Safety and Occupational Science; Management, Policy, and Community Health; and Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences).
Qualifications include: (1) a doctorate with some focus in public health, including psychology, psychiatry, sociology, health economics, social work, health services research, community health, organizational science, etc.); (2) evidence of collaborative research supporting advances in population or community health, mental health, health promotion, military health, health services research, or public health policy; 3) strong potential for independent research funding or track record of established independent research funding including NIH-funded grants (e.g., K-series or R-series); (4) commitment to excellence in teaching and advising graduate students; and (5) excellence in written and oral communication skills. Multi-disciplinary training, with backgrounds that include computer or data sciences, statistics, law, engineering, occupational and environmental sciences, and other related disciplines will also be considered.
Responsibilities will include research, teaching, and community service. The successful applicants will develop and implement research related to population health, community health or clinical health initiatives, and work collaboratively with UTHealth Houston School of Public Health colleagues. The applicants must demonstrate practical, applied expertise in analytic methods appropriate to enhancing research investigating psychosocial, behavioral, structural, or environmental factors associated with health outcomes as well as empirical research involving the design, implementation, and evaluation of health promotion interventions, including those related to occupational safety and health.
We encourage applicants with a broad array of skills and experience related to behavioral health, geriatric health and aging, substance use disorders, and/or military health. We also encourage experience with systems science for population health (e.g., machine learning, asocial network analysis, systems dynamics modeling, etc.), dissemination and implementation science, participatory-based research methods, quantitative methodologies and analytic approaches to population research, innovative modelling techniques or the application of innovative alternative study designs appropriate for complex clinical and/or community-based studies.
Applicants for Associate Professor and above, must demonstrate experience as an independent researcher with funded research studies, presentations at national and international conferences, and a record of high-quality peer-reviewed publications. Successful candidates will provide guidance and mentorship to graduate and post-doctoral students. Candidates will participate in classroom instruction and should be prepared to teach graduate level classes. Teaching commitment will be agreed upon with Department Chair and the Curriculum Coordinator in the Department. We aim to recruit outstanding research scholars, and offer a competitive compensation package. UTHealth Houston School of Public Health, is an integral part of UTHealth Houston, is located within the Texas Medical Center (www.texmedctr.tmc.edu) and has 165 faculty and 1300 students at six campuses located strategically throughout Texas. Opportunities for research and collaboration are outstanding. San Antonio is the seventh largest city in the United States and boasts a strong economy with a relatively low cost of living (https://www.sanantonio.gov/).
Interested applicants should complete the web application and include a letter describing their qualifications and interests, unofficial transcripts of their degree, along with their curriculum vitae, and contact information for three professional references at: UTHealth Careers – Careers – UTHealth. Address correspondence to search committee Staff Coordinator Ms. Melissa Garcia (Melissa.E.Garcia@uth.tmc.edu) and please be sure to add San Antonio Faculty Search to the message subject line. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the positions are filled.
About University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) San Antonio Campus
For more information about the UTHealth Houston School of Public Health and the San Antonio location, please access the following link: https://sph.uth.edu/campuses/san-antonio. UTHealth Houston School of Public Health, is an integral part of UTHealth Houston, is located within the Texas Medical Center (www.texmedctr.tmc.edu) and has 165 faculty and 1300 students at six campuses located strategically throughout Texas. Opportunities for research and collaboration are outstanding. San Antonio is the seventh largest city in the United States and boasts a strong economy with a relatively low cost of living (https://www.sanantonio.gov/).
UTHealth Houston is committed to providing equal opportunity in all employment-related activities without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, gender identity or expression, veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law or university policy. Reasonable accommodation, based on disability or religious observances, will be considered in accordance with the applicable law and UTHealth policy. The University maintains affirmative action programs with respect to women, minorities, individuals with disabilities, and eligible veterans in accordance with applicable law. This is a security-sensitive position and thereby subject to Texas Education code §51.215. A background check will be required for the final candidate.
