Assistant Professor - Health Sciences; Health Research Methodology

WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY

FACULTY OF SCIENCE

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SCIENCES

The Department of Health Sciences at Wilfrid Laurier University invites applications for a 2-year Limited Term Appointment (LTA) faculty position at the Assistant Professor level in the Community Public/ Population Health area beginning August 4, 2026, subject to budgetary approval. The primary campus location for this position is Waterloo, however teaching responsibilities may include instruction of students at the Brantford and Milton campus via in-person and virtual modes of delivery.

We are particularly interested in candidates with expertise in health research methodology who can lead and deliver a coordinated suite of undergraduate and graduate courses in quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research in health sciences.

Anticipated Salary Range: $90,000 to $130,000. Actual salary to be commensurate with experience.

Duties:
Design and deliver curriculum and lectures, mentor students, assess and respond to learning outcomes, and supervise undergraduate and graduate student research. Conduct independent and collaborative research, secure funding, publish in peer‑reviewed journals, and present ticipating in committees at the departmental and faculty levels, engaging in interdisciplinary collaborations, and contributing professionally to your field.

Responsibilities:
Ensure high‑quality education through teaching and supporting student and faculty development. Contribute to institutional governance, advance knowledge through research, foster collaborations, and translate research into policies or other practical applications and interventions that improve human health.

Qualifications:

The ideal candidate must hold a PhD in one of the following disciplinary areas:
Public or Population Health, Epidemiology, Statistics, Community Health, Health Data Science, Health Systems, Health Policy, Health Services Research, and Medical Sciences. An interdisciplinary educational background to study and enhance understanding of human health, disease processes, and health inequities is an asset. Some Postdoctoral training is an asset but not a requirement.

The successful candidate is expected to contribute service to the University and academic community, and to scholarly and/or professional activities.

The successful applicant will be an emerging scholar whose work encompasses a variety of health research methods and methodologies with a particular focus on quantitative health analyses. This applicant will demonstrate a strong commitment to interdisciplinary research, community engagement, and community‑based or policy impact. The ideal candidate will have experience conducting health research methodologies, as well as work that generates a cell‑to‑society understanding of human health and disease.

This perspective integrates biological, social, and structural determinants of health to inform holistic and transformative solutions. Strong candidates will demonstrate their interdisciplinary approaches to understanding complexity in health and disease.

The successful candidate will demonstrate teaching experience in community public and population health courses (e.g., research methods, quantitative methods in health research, epidemiology, mixed methods in health research), as well as capacity to teach courses that offer a cell‑to‑society understanding of health and disease with evidence of course development as an asset. Experience teaching statistical software (e.g., R, SAS, Stata, SPSS), and data visualization tools, is an asset.

A commitment to student mentorship—whether in the classroom, or research setting—and with evidence of student supervision, is an asset. Candidates whose methodological expertise enables integration of biological, clinical, social, and structural data across levels of analysis (e.g., multilevel modeling, systems science, translational research methods) are particularly encouraged to apply.

The Department of Health Sciences is multidisciplinary in scope, offering a broad range of courses that span the natural sciences as well as courses applying social science and health theories and methods to health…