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rAssistant Professor

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rLocation: Health Sciences

rRegular/Temporary: Regular

rJob ID: 607603

rFull/Part Time: Full-Time

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NAU aims to be the nation\'s preeminent engine of opportunity, vehicle of economic mobility, and driver of social impact by delivering equitable postsecondary value in Arizona and beyond.

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About NAU

Northern Arizona University serves almost 30,000 students. We are a vibrant community, with 21,000 students in Flagstaff-the home of our largest campus-and the remainder online or at our 20+ statewide locations. Our institution has carefully integrated on-campus education with distance learning, forming seamless avenues for students to earn degrees.

Committed to an inclusive university environment, NAU has all the benefits of a large institution with a personal touch. We carefully balance teaching, scholarship, and service for faculty members. Supporting our core value of student-centrism, NAU\'s faculty members promote learning and help students reach academic milestones.

Flagstaff is an outdoorsy mountain town with four seasons and a thriving cultural scene. Located at 7,000 feet, Flagstaff houses 70,000 people and sits at the base of the sacred San Francisco Peaks.

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About the Department/College

The Department of Health Sciences serves approximately 1,800 undergraduate and graduate students within the College of Health and Human Services. The department is a true multidisciplinary unit, providing six different undergraduate degree programs in five unique disciplines (Public Health, Nutrition and Foods, Allied Health, Fitness Wellness, and Physical Education Teacher Education), along with the Master of Public Health degree, and collaboration in an Interdisciplinary Health PhD degree between the College of Health and Human Services and the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Additionally, the department offers curricula in traditional residential and online formats.

NAU\'s Master of Public Health (MPH) works to improve health, well-being, and quality of life in Arizona with a focus on rural, tribal, and border communities. The program offers concentrations in three areas: Nutrition, Health Promotion, and Indigenous Health.

This position will also be an integral part of the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative (SHERC), a dynamic, Research Center for Minority Institutions at Northern Arizona University funded by NIMHD. SHERC is housed in the Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) in the Office of the Vice President for Research. The long-term goal of SHERC is to eliminate health disparities among diverse populations of the southwestern United States by focusing on building research capacity in biomedical, clinical, and behavioral sciences at NAU. We are uniquely positioned to do this at NAU, given our longstanding commitment to serving underrepresented students and citizens in our region, our strong working relationships with tribal, Latinx, and rural communities, and our dedication to conduct health equity research that directly improves the lives of the people we serve.

About the Position

We seek applicants for a full-time (9-month) tenure-track research and teaching faculty position in the Department of Health Sciences at the Assistant P ofessor level to start in the Fall of 2024.

The successful candidate will have demonstrated experience leading population health research projects and working as part of a multidisciplinary team. Scholarly work should reflect best practices regarding statistical analysis and reporting, study design, study recruitment and other indices of optimal and transparent research.

We seek individuals committed to collaborative, interdisciplinary, and community-engaged research. Areas of specific research growth in CHER and SHERC include cross-cutting areas such as social determinants of health, Indigenous health, behavioral and clinical health, and methodological and analytical strategies for community-based and multilevel interventions.

Responsibilities Include:

• Maintain an independent research program that develops into externally funded projects in the field of public health.
• Contribute to the teaching mission of the CHHS including the teaching and mentoring of undergraduate, MPH, and PhD students as well as post-doctoral fellows
• Perform service for the department, center, college, university, and profession.

This position is an on-site position which requires the incumbent to complete their work primarily at an NAU site, campus, or facility with or without accommodation. Oppo