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Job Description

Job ID:  0130144

Position Details: Assistant or Associate Professor (TS) (#0130144) - The Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences (BCHS) in the Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh (http://www.bchs.pitt.edu/) invites applications for a full-time faculty position in the area of modeling and simulation of health behavior.  BCHS applies cutting-edge behavioral and social science methods to examine how people recognize health threats and obtain care and what factors determine community health.  Our faculty is engaged in research addressing a wide range of health topics and is well known for behavioral and community health interventions, dynamic models of health behavior change, community health assessment, community-partnered research, and evaluation science.

We seek an assistant or associate professor with skills in computational, simulation, and modeling approaches to the dynamics of health behavior change.  Formal models of health behavior may include health protective behaviors (e.g., screening, vaccination, and nonpharmacologic responses to disease threat), risk behaviors (e.g., substance abuse, sexual behaviors, or interpersonal violence), or other behaviors relevant for infectious and chronic disease risk.  Candidates should be skilled in agent-based models, social network analysis, mobile sensing, neural networks, or related methods.  We seek candidates with an earned doctorate in public health, a related social science discipline, or systems science and an interest in building bridges across disciplines within the school of health sciences and across the university

The academic responsibilities of this position include research, teaching, and service.  The successful candidate will show evidence of scholarly productivity and either a history of extramural research funding or potential to transition to independent investigator.  The successful candidate will work with our Public Health Dynamics Laboratory (https://www.phdl.pitt.edu/) and join the group of BCHS faculty already working to apply computational modeling to behavioral and community health issues.  Publishing in peer-reviewed journals is expected, along with serving on master’s and doctoral committees.

Interested applicants should send curriculum vitae, including detailed funding history; a letter describing research interests and qualifications; and names and addresses of three individuals (with complete contact information) at or above the proposed rank of appointment, outside of the University of Pittsburgh, who can speak to the candidate’s qualifications.  (Please note: At least three additional letters will be requested from referees identified independently of those provided by the candidate.)  Applications should be sent to:

Jessica G. Burke, PhD   
Chair, Search Committee
Associate Professor, Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences
c/o Chantel Durrant
207J Parran Hall, Graduate School of Public Health
130 DeSoto Street, University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15261
Contact Email: cjd13@pitt.edu

The University of Pittsburgh is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and Minorities are encouraged to apply.