Job Board Title:
Tenure-track Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Environmental Epidemiology

Post Date
10/10/2024

Expiration Date
12/9/2024

Details:
The Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the Yale School of Public Health is seeking a highly qualified and motivated individual for a tenure-track position in Environmental Epidemiology. The successful candidate will specialize in investigating environmental influences, including chemical and non-chemical stressors, as well as consideration of individual-level susceptibility factors, and their impacts on human health and diseases. We are particularly interested in applicants with demonstrated records of leading environmental epidemiological studies using modern epidemiologic research approaches. Some example areas of interest include but are not limited to the exposome and environmentally focused omics, emerging chemicals, spatial epidemiology, environmental health data science, and precision environmental health. The candidates will have opportunities to engage in vibrant and collaborative research at the School of Public Health and Yale University. Additionally, the role of this position includes developing and teaching an environmental epidemiology course for Masters and Doctoral students at the Yale School of Public Health.

Responsibilities
- Conduct cutting-edge environmental epidemiological research on human health and diseases.
- Develop and maintain an active research program.
- Collaborate with our departmental research in the areas of climate change and energy impacts on health, the developmental origin of health and disease, green chemistry solutions, environmental justice and health disparities, and novel toxicological and exposomic approaches to assess exposures and early markers of health.
- Develop and teach a graduate-level environmental epidemiology course.
- Mentor students in environmental epidemiology and related fields.

Qualifications:
- PhD, ScD, or MD/PhD degree, or the equivalent, by the start of the appointment, with a strong background in environmental epidemiology or a closely related field.
- Strong record of research productivity and innovation as evidenced by peer-reviewed publications.
- Documented experience in teaching.

To be considered at the associate or full professor level, candidates should have a progressively more significant volume of past and current extramurally funded research programs in environmental epidemiology, as well as a scholarly record that meets the School's standards for the rank.

Comments:
To apply

Review of applications will commence November 11, 2024, and will continue until a candidate is identified, with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2025. Please submit a cover letter; curriculum vitae; teaching statement; statement of research accomplishments and interests; and three names of references via Interfolio:

http://apply.interfolio.com/154753

Please indicate your experience related to diversity, equity and inclusion including research, teaching and mentorship in your teaching and/or research statements.

For additional information about YSPH please visit http://publichealth.yale.edu/

Please direct questions to ysphfacultyaffairs@yale.edu

The Yale School of Public Health is committed to hiring, mentoring, and advocating for promotion of colleagues who will contribute to equity, inclusion, and excellence in our community through their research, teaching, and service. The candidate’s plans to promote these values will be an integral part of their application and should demonstrate an understanding of the barriers facing historically disenfranchised groups in academia, including but not limited to women, people of color, individuals with disabilities, and members of the LGBTQ community.

Yale University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and welcomes applications from women, members of minority groups, persons with disabilities and protected veterans.

Employer:
Yale School of Public Health

Email:
ysphfacultyaffairs@yale.edu

Website:
http://publichealth.yale.edu/