Tenure-track Assistant Professor – Epidemiology
Log #22-008
The Department of Population Health Sciences in the School of Public Health at Georgia State University is seeking outstanding applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Epidemiology. The successful candidate will develop and maintain a clear program of research and actively engage in collaborative work with other researchers in the field. Candidates should show promise for scholarly accomplishments, including building a strong publication record and obtaining extramural research funding. Candidates should also have demonstrated potential for meaningful contributions to graduate-level teaching and mentoring. Teaching assignments will depend on the expertise and interests of the candidate as well as departmental priorities. The ideal candidate will hold a doctorate in Epidemiology or a related field with special emphasis on advanced analytic skills. For applicants in related fields, advanced training in Epidemiology is required. Excellent oral and written communication skills are essential, and candidates must display a willingness and ability to contribute to the University and profession through service activities.
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Sponsor Funded Executive – Project Director (working title: Director, Prevent Child Abuse Georgia)
Prevent Child Abuse Georgia (PCA Georgia) in the Mark Chaffin Center for Healthy Development, School of Public Health is seeking a Sponsor Funder Director for Prevent Child Abuse Georgia. PCA Georgia provides statewide direction in building safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments to prevent child abuse and neglect. It provides technical assistance to more than 20 local councils located throughout the state who advocate for and implement prevention practices in their communities. The Director will lead PCA Georgia as a strong and visible presence for the prevention of child maltreatment throughout the state. Executive leadership responsibilities will include oversight and implementation of all projects and initiatives, budgetary and staff management, resource development, production of deliverables required by funders, development and maintenance of relationships with partner organizations and funders, and development of new sponsored funding contracts. The PCA Director will report to the Director of the MCHHD and will coordinate the Prevent Child Abuse Advisory Board.
Primary Responsibilities:
Strategic Planning
- Provide overall strategic direction for the program and core programming areas (technical assistance to a statewide prevention network; training initiatives including mandated reporting, Connections Matter, annual conference; implementation of the Georgia’s Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Plan; and oversight of current programs (Strengthening Families Georgia, 1-800-CHILDREN Helpline, the Georgia Essentials for Childhood Initiative).
- Provide leadership and vision in designing, planning, managing, communicating, evaluating, and learning from programming efforts
- Lead strategic planning efforts
- Understand, articulate, and interpret the program’s mission and vision
Operations and Sustainability
- Lead the overall planning, organization, and direction of PCA Georgia’s operations
- Lead the development and submission of grants for funding and sustainability of the program. This includes all aspects of the grant-making process including preparing funding proposals; participating in site visits; managing and monitoring grant portfolio; and evaluating for effectiveness
- Manage programmatic budgets
- Recruit, train, manage, and evaluate program staff
- Manage consultants and related contracts
- Oversee high quality graduate practicum student training program
- Serve as primary contact with the PCA Georgia Advisory Board
- Interface with MCCHD/SPH staff for effective program operations
Partnership and Collaboration
- Serve as an ambassador for PCA Georgia with key external stakeholders and partners and maintain those relationships
- Represent PCA Georgia on advisory committees, task forces, etc.
- Convene key stakeholders as appropriate
- Serve as a liaison between PCA Georgia and MCCHD and SPH
Requirements
- Innovative thinker
- Problem-solving skills, including the ability to develop novel approaches to pressing child and family well-being issues
- Sound judgment and the ability to make complex, multidimensional decisions
- Thorough knowledge and grasp of child welfare/child and family well-being policy, equity, systems change, social determinants of health, and the ability to orchestrate levels of change
- Organization, administrative and management skills
- Team effectiveness skills
- Ability to represent PCA Georgia to a variety of stakeholders in a credible and influential manner
- Demonstrated effectiveness in written and oral communication
- Other duties as assigned
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Sponsor Funded Office/Clerical – Program Coordinator
- Coordinate participant recruitment, study procedures, and participant payment.
- Coordinate IRB and NIH regulatory processes and reports.
- Coordinate communication with other institutions regarding regulatory processes, study procedures, participant recruitment, and intervention development.
- Assist with dissemination of findings including, but not limited to, literature review, preparing manuscripts for publication, and conference presentations.
- Other lab responsibilities including coordination of undergraduate volunteers on this and related projects, assist with grant writing activities, and any other lab responsibilities.
- Other duties as assigned.
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Sponsor Funded Office/Clerical – Program Coordinator
Prevent Child Abuse Georgia (PCA Georgia) in the Mark Chaffin Center for Healthy Development, School of Public Health is seeking a Sponsor Funded Program Coordinator who will be responsible for the routine activities associated with PCA Georgia’s training program and the 1-800-CHILDREN Helpline.
Duties include but are not limited to:
Training Coordination
- Coordinate routine activities to support PCA Georgia’s training programs (webinars, Training of the Trainer, annual conference)
- Coordinate logistics of in-person and virtual trainings
- Match incoming training requests with trainer
- Provide technical assistance to statewide trainer network
- Become certified PCA Georgia trainer
- Facilitate in-person metro-Atlanta trainings (following health recommendations set by the CDC)
- Assist with curriculum updates and grant reporting
1-800-Children Helpline Coordination
- Coordinate the routine activities of the 1-800-CHILDREN Helpline
- Maintain the resource database and on-line map by working with student assistants to identify resources, enter and edit data, and verify resources
- Maintain regular contact and work plans with Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies staff and PCA Georgia student assistants
- Facilitate stakeholder meetings with the Georgia Department of Public Health, Criminal Justice Coordinating Council and Neighborhood Nexus
- Assist in the execution of the 1-800-CHILDREN Helpline evaluation plan
- Facilitate monthly, quarterly and yearly reports on Helpline data
- Assist with annual trainings to Helpline staff
Administrative
- Assist in the logistics of annual events (conference, meetings, etc.) such as space, technology, subject matter experts, food and beverage
- Assist in the ordering and distribution of CAP month materials
- Works with staff to maintain online store and order requests
- Reviews bills and invoices to approve for payment
- Assist with office and programmatic administrative duties
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
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Non-Communicable Diseases—Assistant Professor
Log #19-111
As part of its Next Generation Initiative focused on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), Georgia State University, under the leadership of the School of Public Health in partnership with the Byrdine F. Lewis College of Nursing and Health Professions, the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, and the College of Arts & Sciences, anticipates hiring tenure-track faculty with interlocking research programs focused on NCDs.
NCDs—also called “chronic diseases”—such as heart disease, stroke, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases, diabetes, obesity, drug and alcohol abuse, and mental illness are the leading cause of mortality in the world. Successful candidates will be hired at the rank of Assistant Professor with a primary appointment in Departments/Colleges that best correspond to the candidates’ experience and interests. Nutrition, economics, and health policy.
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Interpersonal Violence Initiative—Assistant/Associate Professor
Log #20-001
As part of its Next Generation Initiative focused on Interpersonal Violence, Georgia State University anticipates hiring tenure-track faculty with research programs focused on interpersonal violence to begin in Fall 2019. In the heart of the largest and most racially/ethnically diverse metropolitan area in the Southeastern U.S., Georgia State has committed to becoming a national leader in interpersonal violence research and prevention by facilitating scholarship with the goal to (1) understand the causes and consequences of interpersonal violence and myriad health, behavioral, and social problems with which it intersects, (2) emphasize the development, refinement, and evaluation of interventions to reduce or prevent the perpetration of interpersonal violence and ameliorate the impact of victimization, and (3) inform public policy, risk reduction strategies, and service provision by public and non-profit entities. As such, we seek faculty with a transdisciplinary focus and a track record of studying interpersonal violence primarily as it intersects with other public health problems.
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Epidemiology & Biostatistics/Next Generation—Assistant/Associate Professor
Log #19-109
The School of Public Health invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the assistant or associate level, in the areas of computational genomics and bioinformatics. Candidates should have a strong background in mathematical modeling and data analysis. We are particularly interested in candidates with strong quantitative research programs. A Ph.D. in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Biomedical Engineering or related area is required. Preference will be given to those candidates who have a strong record of independent or collaborative research and teaching, and extramural funding. Georgia State University has a significant strength in biomedical sciences, particularly in infectious disease, microbial pathogenesis, inflammation and immunity. We expect the successful candidates to be able to work with a team of faculty members from Computer Science, Public Health, Engineering, Mathematics and Statistics, Institute of Biomedical Sciences (IBMS), Biology, the Neuroscience Institute and/or Center for Diagnostics and Therapeutics (CDT), synergistically advance biomedical science research at Georgia State.
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Precision Medicine and Population Health — Associate or Full Professor
Log #19-110
The School of Public Health is seeking a tenure-track faculty member to join its core faculty as a scholar to lead its new initiative in Precision Medicine and Public Health. Precision medicine has been with us for many years, mostly in the form of drugs and devices that can be used for curative and restorative purposes. The advances of the past few years has pushed precision medicine beyond the general and into the realm of specific treatments for individuals, based on the genetic makeup of both host and disease. Much of the attention has been devoted to the biogenetic process, less to the social, demographic, and economic aspects that will ultimately determine the pathway for precision medicine in society. An interdisciplinary group at Georgia State (public health, law, molecular genetics, economics) wishes to pursue a broad agenda that will encompass laboratory science, population health, health disparities and inequalities, the legal and ethical foundation for genetic therapies, and the economic implications of such treatments. We seek a scholar in any of those fields who will be in a position to lead combined efforts in all of them.
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Biostatistics — Open Rank Professor
Log#19-094
The School of Public Health is seeking an outstanding scholar to join the core faculty in the area of Biostatistics housed in a multi-disciplinary graduate public health program. Applicants should demonstrate research achievement in the statistical and quantitative sciences, including a strong potential for collaborative research with extramural funding support. The selected candidate will be expected to maintain their own research program, conduct collaborative work with public health researchers, and contribute to graduate teaching and mentoring. Teaching assignments will depend on the expertise and interests of the candidate as well as departmental priorities, but may include graduate-level introductory biostatistics and statistical computing courses.
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Open Rank Professor – Mark Chaffin Center for Healthy Development, Tenured, Tenure Track or Non-Tenure Track
Log #19-050
The Mark Chaffin Center for Healthy Development (CHD), a designated university-level research center, is seeking an open rank faculty member to contribute to its current interdisciplinary efforts. Current areas of focus include research on child maltreatment and related phenomena (trauma, substance use) and disabilities research, broadly defined. CHD has a strong focus on real-world effectiveness and implementation research and focuses on both research-to-practice, and practice-to-research. CHD faculty and staff conduct research in homes, schools, early care settings, shelters, courts, community center, and other settings. The selected faculty is expected to bring a program of research to CHD that will complement existing efforts and add depth and breadth to the ongoing projects. Potential areas of interest are: neuroscience research, dissemination of evidence-based programs, implementation research, analysis of large-scale administrative databases, health economics, or policy evaluation.
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Assistant or Associate Professor, Resilient Youth
Log #18-ResY B
As part of its Next Generation Initiative on Resilient Youth (ResY), Georgia State University anticipates hiring one tenure-track faculty member whose research program focuses on health disparities among urban youth to begin in Fall 2019. We seek established scientists who will join our growing cadre of researchers in Sociology, Health Promotion, Epidemiology/Biostatistics, Community Psychology, and Clinical Psychology. Successful candidates will also contribute to graduate and undergraduate education in one or more of these areas with opportunities to build on exciting interdisciplinary offerings across units (e.g., the new MPH/Ph.D. in Community Psychology).
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Associate/Full Professor of Adult Health Literacy, Second Century Initiative
Log # 16-040
As part of Georgia State University’s Second Century Initiative (2CI), the School of Public Health announces a new faculty opening for scholars with established external funding and research in adult health literacy. The 2CI program focuses on expanding the University’s priority research areas and includes support (start-up funding) and funded doctoral student fellowships. This position will be in the School of Public Health, although new faculty will add depth and breadth to the current federally funded IES Center for the Study of Adult Literacy and to the newly developing College of Education’s Adult Literacy Research Center (ALRC). Appointments are anticipated to begin Fall 2016.
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