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POSITION: Associate/Full Professor
ORGANIZATION: Rutgers University, Department of Epidemiology and Biostats
The School of Public Health invites applications for a tenure/tenure track faculty position at the rank of Associate or Full Professor in Epidemiology. The successful applicant will be expected to develop and sustain an extramurally funded research program, contribute to the teaching mission, and mentor MPH and doctoral students, and actively engage with the communities we serve, directed by the following mission: To advance health and well-being and prevent disease throughout New Jersey, the United States, and the world, by preparing students as public health leaders, scholars, and practitioners; conducting public health research and scholarship; engaging collaboratively with communities and populations; and actively advocating for policies, programs, and services through the lens of equity and social justice.
Qualified candidates should have a PhD or equivalent in epidemiology or a related discipline, a demonstrated record of significant extramurally funded research, high quality teaching and mentorship, and a commitment to community engagement, diversity, inclusion and social justice. The ideal candidate will enhance our epidemiological core and complement or deepen our current department strengths, including but not limited to Chronic and Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Clinical Epidemiology, Nutrition Epidemiology, Social Epidemiology, and Modern Epidemiological Methods that advance health equity.
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POSITION: Assistant Professor in Community Health and Social Justice
ORGANIZATION: University of Washington, School of Nursing and Health Studies
This position will involve teaching, scholarship, and service across our academic programs, but we are hiring with particular interest in supporting our MS in Community Health and Social Justice that is in development, pending approval. Faculty in SNHS apply expertise from a range of health-related fields, including social determinants of health, nursing, health education and promotion, behavioral health, community health, social justice pedagogy, global health, and others. Successful candidates will be expected to engage with:
1) diversity, equity, and inclusion in teaching, scholarship, and/or service
2) transformational learning, innovative pedagogy, and engaged scholarship in an inclusive and interdisciplinary culture of learning
3) pedagogical approaches for teaching in classroom-based, hybrid and online settings
4) community connections and outreach efforts within a community, clinical, or public health context.
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POSITION: Health Science Specialist/Registry Analyst
ORGANIZATION: Veterans Affairs
Are you interested in putting data to work for Veterans? The VA’s Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry (AHOBPR) is the fastest growing national registry in the VA with >265,000 participants and approximately 500 new participants joining each week. We are seeking a motivated and independent Registry Analyst to join our team to help us better understand the potential health effects of exposure to airborne hazards during military service.
The AHOBPR is housed within the VA’s Airborne Hazards and Burn Pits Center of Excellence (AHBPCE) at the New Jersey War Related Illness and Injury Study Center (WRIISC). The Center specializes in clinical and translational research that uses scientific insights to help improve health outcomes for Veterans exposed to airborne hazards while deployed.
The Health Science Specialist/Registry Analyst will provide analytical support under the direction of the Center’s senior epidemiologist and leadership.
Key Duties:
- Clean, manage, and analyze data, using analytic software packages (SAS or R), to determine accuracy for the preparation of analytical datasets for longitudinal and cross-sectional analysis.
- Perform statistical modeling and quantitative analysis on datasets, including basic descriptive analysis/tabulating profiles/creating data plots, in preparation for more advanced analyses.
- Assist senior Health Science Specialists with establishing acceptable research policies and procedures for evaluation groups to conduct their reviews and to frame their recommendations for project effectiveness and medical research funds.
- Assist in the determination of the need for additional ad hoc review/representation from scientific and medical practice specialties.
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POSITION: General Business and Industry Specialist
ORGANIZATION: Department of Health and Human Services
As a General Business and Industry Specialist, you will use your knowledge of and experience with the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources to optimize business results and customer experience by:
With guidance from senior analysts, applying knowledge of private sector/ industry business practices to support tailoring and application of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) insights and recommendations for HHS and Division operations and staff.
Assisting business owners across the ASFR portfolio, on addressing management challenges within the scope of their operations, including, but not limited to: finance, acquisition, contract management, and /or grants management.
Assisting in the application of business processes, management and business analysis tools and methodologies, tools and methodologies from financial analysis, and quantitative and qualitative assessment techniques to develop data-driven, fact-based findings to support the preparation of recommendations and briefings for senior leadership.
Assisting senior analysts with market research, cross-industry analysis, the development of Statements of Work, and participates in the end-to-end contracting process for the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)Team.
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POSITION: Nutrition and Physical Activity Coordinator
ORGANIZATION: The Institute for Family Health
The Nutrition and Physical Activity Coordinator organizes activities related to improving health, preventing chronic disease, and reducing health disparities among Bronx residents. S/he will primarily focus on the following projects: Food Service Guidelines, Food Systems, and Complete Streets. The Food Service Guidelines work establishes healthy nutrition standards in key institutions such as senior centers, faith based organizations, food banks/pantries, early care and education, hospitals, and afterschool and recreation programs. The Food Systems work implements farm share programs at health centers and faith based institutions. The Complete Streets project works to collaborate with partners to improve physical activity by connecting sidewalks, paths, bicycle routes, public transit with destinations through implementation of master plans and land use interventions. The Coordinator will work closely with faith-based institutions, meal serving organizations, health centers, NYC agencies, and other organizations in the Bronx to implement policy, systems and environmental changes.
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POSITION: Project Coordinator
ORGANIZATION: Department of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health
Job Description: The Department of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health seeks a Project Coordinator to assist in the coordination and management of several projects funded by the NIH related to substance use, sleep and HIV among racial and sexual minorities. The incumbent will report directly to the Principal Investigators and will assist in literature reviews, protocol development, biospecimen collection and management, survey development, data collection, data quality control, database management and maintenance, participant recruitment and retention, and manuscript preparation and presentation of materials for conferences and lectures and in submission of IRB protocols. S/he will perform other related duties as assigned.
Qualifications: Must have experience with epidemiologic research, including literature reviews, protocol development, survey development, data collection, database management and IRB submissions. Must be able to independently learn new skills required to project management. Must be detail-oriented, with superior organizational, interpersonal, written and oral communication skills, and the ability to maintain the highest degree of confidentiality and diplomacy at all times.
Preferred qualifications: Masters degree in public health or related field. Knowledge of substance use research.
Salary: Commensurate with experience.
To apply, please email a resume and cover letter to Justin Knox at justinryanknox@gmail.com
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POSITION: Program Manager, Tax & Income Support
ORGANIZATION: NYC Health + Hospitals
Working closely with the Social Determinants team, the Program Manager will build upon the existing tax prep program to expand the current model to year-round partnerships with community-based organization (CBOs) and to all hospital and health center locations. The Program Manager will work with each CBO will establish virtual and on-site (where appropriate) free tax prep services. The Program Manager will also work with the CBOs on onboarding for on-site services, data/reporting for monitoring program reach, and creatively troubleshooting operational issues.
In addition to expanding service availability, the Program Manager will develop outreach and referral approaches to target patient populations for specific tax-related benefits. For example, the Program Manager will work with pediatric outpatient clinics, women’s health clinics, and labor and delivery inpatient departments to connect families with children and newborns to the Child Tax Credit. Finally, the Program Manager must be able to effectively communicate program success and challenges to programmatic partners and funders.
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POSITION: Adjunct Instructor
ORGANIZATION: SUNY Old Westbury’s Public Health Department
SUNY Old Westbury’s Public Health Department is looking for an adjunct instructor to teach the following courses for Spring 2022 ASAP. Each are upper-division undergraduate courses with approximately 30 students.
Epidemiology
Social Determinants of Health
Black Lives Matter: Health Inequities in the U.S.
Nutrition, Health, and the Food System
If you would like to be considered for one of these positions, please send a brief letter of interest (no more than 1 page) and a C.V. to Sarah Smith, Chair of Public Health, at smithsa@oldwestbury.edu.
Please include any other courses listed in our catalog that you feel qualified to teach, so that we can consider you for future semesters.
https://www.oldwestbury.edu/programs-courses/health-and-society-bs
Applications that arrive before 9/29 will be given full consideration.
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POSITION: Hypertension Initiative Manager
ORGANIZATION: DOHMH Bureau of Chronic Disease Prevention
The Bureau of Chronic Disease Prevention (BCDP) strives to reduce the burden of chronic disease, including heart disease, obesity, cancer and diabetes, among New Yorkers. It has created and implemented programs and policies with national and international impact. BCDP is focused on shifting environments to prevent chronic disease and promote more equitable health outcomes, with a focus on poor nutrition, tobacco use and the built environment as well as increased awareness and screening for hypertension and cancer. BCDP aims to work with partners in government and in the community to employ evidence-based policies, programs, communications and research to advance its objectives. The Bureau recognizes that a history of racial discrimination and social injustices have led to unjust barriers to health and, in turn, risk factors for chronic disease disproportionately and unfairly affect New Yorkers who have been historically and structurally marginalized. The Bureau sits within the Center for Health Equity and Community Wellness.
For the full job description and to apply, click here. (Job ID: 478776)
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POSITION: Assistant Professor
ORGANIZATION: Department of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut
The Department of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut offers undergraduate and graduate training, with internationally recognized strengths in medical anthropology, human rights, archaeology, and biocultural anthropology. Research, teaching, and advocacy in the Department seek to understand the creation and maintenance of social inequities while simultaneously identifying ways to reduce or eliminate them. The Department of Anthropology has recently created a Diversity Committee, composed of faculty and graduate students, that is charged with promoting a climate of diversity and inclusion within our department and engaging with anti-racist pedagogies.
We seek to hire an emerging scholar with broad training and an active research agenda that demonstrates theoretical innovation and a commitment to ethnographic engagement. Theoretical focus is open, with some preference for engagement with critical and/or decolonial approaches. Topical focus is also open, but we are especially seeking applicants with expertise in global health, broadly defined, and/or other areas that complement the expertise of our current faculty. Experience and interest in innovative, interdisciplinary, and/or community-based approaches to research and engagement are especially welcome. Geographic area is open, although a specialization in Asia or Africa would be especially welcome. The candidate will support UConn’s long tradition of research and training in Medical Anthropology by offering undergraduate and graduate courses, advising and mentoring students, and engaging actively in Departmental and interdisciplinary initiatives, such as the Department’s sociocultural anthropology colloquium, the undergraduate and graduate Global Health programs, and the Research Program on Global Health and Human Rights at the Human Rights Institute. This new colleague may also wish to engage in interdisciplinary conversations with one or more of the many research institutes at UConn such as the Human Rights Institute; El Instituto: Institute of Latina/o, Caribbean and Latin American Studies; Women Gender and Sexuality Studies; Africana Studies Institute; and/or Asian and Asian American Studies.
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POSITION: COVID Testing Data Coordinator
ORGANIZATION: DHS
Among persons experiencing homelessness who are DHS clients, there has been several measures put into place to contain the spread of COVID-19. To contain and mitigate the spread of COVID-19, it is essential that the most vulnerable, in particular DHS clients, have access to testing. The aims of this testing initiative are to:
- Allow rapid isolation of persons infected
- Link persons infected with COVID-19 to care
- Decrease the risk of transmission
- Reduce the number of infections and deaths among our clients
To implement this initiative time-limited rapidly, DHS is seeking a team of temporary staff to work with the DHS medical office, shelter-based clinics and shelter staff.
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