Tenure-Track Biostatistics Faculty

EPIDEMIOLOGY AND BIOSTATISTICS

Tenure-Track Biostatistics Faculty

We invite applications for tenure-track faculty in biostatistics to join the Temple University Barnett College of Public Health Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics starting in summer 2026. Areas of interest include spatial statistics and statistical methodologies underlying spatial data, high-dimensional and big data (e.g., data from wearable devices, electronic health records), Bayesian statistics, and learning algorithms as novel data analytical tools in applications in public health.

Our department has a dynamic faculty body with highly interdisciplinary research across the College of Public Health as well as Temple University. Additionally, the successful candidate will participate as a member of the Department's Biostatistics Core, which offers comprehensive biostatistical consultation and computational services to researchers in the College of Public Health and throughout Temple University, as well as those in other institutions.

The Core also actively participates with community engagement through various educational activities. We expect the successful candidate to collaborate with other faculty, and those with a successful track record in data-driven statistical methodologies are encouraged to apply.

Tenure-track faculty are expected to engage in research, teaching, and service, with research being their primary focus. Teaching may include didactic coursework at the undergraduate or graduate level, depending upon department needs and faculty expertise, as well as mentorship of graduate researchers

QUALIFICATIONS. A doctorate in biostatistics, statistics, or a related field is required, with preference for candidates with experience in the areas of interest listed above. Faculty will be hired at the rank of assistant professor. Preferred candidates currently hold the rank of assistant professor or are completing/have recently completed a postdoctoral position with external funding. Salary and benefits are competitive and commensurate with credentials and experience.

THE COLLEGE. The Barnett College of Public Health's mission is to educate, innovate, and transform to bring about healthy, equitable, and thriving communities. Our CEPH-accredited College of Public Health embraces public health in all its disciplinary forms, fostering impactful teaching, scholarship, and interdisciplinary collaborations within and outside the college. We engage in interprofessional education, community and clinical practice, impactful research, and service learning, approaching our work with cultural humility as we advocate for positive change and prepare leaders to address the most pressing issues of our time.

The College consists of academic units in the public health disciplines, health professions, and the School of Social Work, enrolling approximately 4,200 students. We value differences among our faculty and believe that we can better serve and understand our communities through the diversity of our faculty.

THE DEPARTMENT. The Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics combines curiosity with rigorous, applied methods that lead to compelling questions and impactful results to improve public health. This is a great opportunity to join a department experiencing growth with research expenditures increasing >80% in the past 5 years and multiple agreements for academic programming and research with international universities. The Department has 15 full-time faculty with expertise in mediation, causal inference, missing data and measurement error, semiparametric regression, latent variable modeling, and psychometrics as well as behavioral and chronic disease epidemiology, cancer prevention and control, environmental and occupational exposures, seroepidemiology and disease modeling, aging and cognitive decline, and cardiovascular disease.

The Department annually enrolls over 1,800 undergraduate and graduate students with diverse backgrounds and administers five graduate programs:
PhD in Epidemiology; MPH degrees in Epidemiology (in-person and online), Applied Biostatistics, and Environmental Health; and MS in Public Health Data…