Public Health Sciences- Research Asst. Professor

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Job Description

Assistant Professor, Research Track

University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

Department of Public Health Sciences

Division of Health Services Research & Policy

The University of Miami Miller School of Medicine's and Department of Public Health Sciences invites applications for an educator track faculty position at the Assistant, Associate or Full Professor level.

The Division of Health Services Research & Policy in the Department of Public Health Sciences (DPHS) at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine is seeking an exceptional candidate for a research track faculty position at the Assistant or Associate Professor rank. The Department of Public Health Sciences has more than 30 faculty and over 250 graduate students. Five Divisions are housed within the DPHS:
Health Services Research and Policy, Epidemiology and Population Health Sciences, Prevention Science and Community Health, Biostatistics, and Environment and Public Health. The DPHS culture is multidisciplinary and collaborative, with many ongoing research grants involving faculty from multiple divisions. The DPHS is the best National Institutes of Health-funded Department at the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine.

Health Policy

Our mission in the Division of Health Services Research and Policy is to conduct innovative health services, health economics, and health policy research across a broad range of areas including: health systems financing, economic impact, decision making, organizational structures and processes, population health, chronic disease, substance use and mental health disorders, clinical intervention development and implementation, global health and ethics, and provider and patient personal behaviors that affect access, quality, and cost of health care.

The Division is especially strong in the areas of behavioral health services research and health policy. For example, one of our HSRP faculty is the director of the Florida Node of the National Institute on Drug Abuse's Clinical Trials Network - featuring intervention development, testing, and evaluation opportunities relating to the treatment of substance use disorders, HIV, and HCV. Our faculty are also involved in several multidisciplinary research centers and institutes including the Center for Health Economics of Treatment Interventions for Substance Use Disorders, HCV, and HIV (CHERISH), Center for Treatment Research on Adolescent Drug Abuse (CTRADA), the Florida Institute for Health Innovation, the University of Miami Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy, and the Brief Strategic Family Therapy Institute.

The DPHS is expanding research and public health practice opportunities in Latin America as well.

Sample Prevention

Division faculty have been locally, nationally, and internationally recognized for their contributions to creating innovative research methodologies, community health, and mentoring initiatives from numerous organizations. The selected individual will be a faculty member in the Division Health Services Research and Policy and will be encouraged to develop a campus-wide program that takes advantage of the intellectual capital throughout the Miller School of Medicine, the University, and the unique diversity of our populations and South Florida's unique location as the gateway to the Americas.

Scientists with bold ideas and a hunger for breakthrough research who have the potential to revolutionize prevention science and community health, and who want to train the next generation of leaders in these areas, are urged to consider this unique opportunity.

The following are areas of special interest:

* Implementation Science

* Humanitarian health data collection and research

* Health systems strengthening

* Digital health research methodology

* Health and climate research

The selected individual will be a faculty member in the Division of…