Open Rank

UNC-Chapel Hill • Chapel Hill, NC

1d

About The Position

The Department of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is hiring one or two full-time tenure-track faculty members at the rank of Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor. Application review begins September 15 and continues until the positions are filled.

Faculty are expected to develop independently funded research portfolios, produce impactful scholarly work, mentor master’s and doctoral students, and teach core epidemiology methods and/or substantive-area epidemiology courses. The department focuses on developing and applying research methods to understand the patterns and causes of health and disease and using that knowledge to improve population health. It provides research-methods training and opportunities to apply epidemiology to a wide range of health problems.

Candidates should demonstrate strong potential for research that affects public health, advances epidemiology, and contributes to the department’s teaching mission. Tenure-track faculty at all levels are expected to demonstrate excellence in teaching, service, and scholarship, including scholarly contributions to science, capacity to obtain extramural funding for independent research, classroom instruction, and mentoring graduate students. Associate Professor candidates must also demonstrate research leadership through funded epidemiologic research as a PI or MPI on grants or contracts, and a record of graduate-student training through mentoring and teaching. Full Professor candidates must additionally demonstrate excellence in scholarship with national or international recognition and research leadership through sustained funding as a PI or MPI on grants or contracts.

Requirements

• Demonstrated capacity for research that impacts public health, advances epidemiology, and contributes to the department’s teaching mission.
• Excellence in teaching, service, and scholarship.
• Capacity to obtain extramural funding to support independent research.
• Ability to provide classroom instruction and mentor master’s and doctoral students.
• For Associate Professor candidates: funded epidemiologic research leadership as a PI or MPI on grants or contracts, and a graduate-student training record demonstrated through mentoring and teaching.
• For Full Professor candidates: nationally or internationally recognized scholarship and sustained research funding as a PI or MPI on grants or contracts.

Responsibilities

• Develop an independently funded research portfolio.
• Produce impactful scholarly work and contribute to science.
• Mentor master’s and doctoral students.
• Teach core epidemiology methods and/or substantive-area epidemiology courses.
• Contribute to the department’s service mission.
• Apply epidemiologic research methods to understand health and disease and improve population health.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed