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Official Job Title ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Working Title: Assistant Professor, Tenure-Monitor – Epidemiology
Place Quantity 02060690
Division Joseph J Zilber College of Public Well being
Division B700100 Public Well being
Place Sort College
Appointment Sort Tenure Monitor College
Pay Foundation Tutorial
Wage Grade Cat D
FLSA Standing Exempt
P.c 100%
Posting Sort College & Educational
UWM Description The College of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) is Wisconsin’s second-largest college, with a singular twin mission of entry and analysis to supply high-quality training for college kids from all backgrounds. UWM is one among 146 prime analysis universities acknowledged as “R1” by the Carnegie Classification of Establishments of Increased Training. Together with its principal campus in Milwaukee, UWM has department campuses in Waukesha and Washington County.
UWM celebrates, values and promotes the various voices and experiences of its college students and staff and our neighborhood companions. We consider variety enriches and strengthens our establishment. UWM is dedicated to offering equitable entry to alternatives for college kids and staff from each background. We aspire to create a campus local weather that’s welcoming to all. Be taught extra right here: https://uwm.edu/diversity-equity-inclusion/about-dei/
College/Faculty/Division Description The Zilber Faculty at present has 39 full-time college and instructors throughout seven public and inhabitants well being areas (biostatistics/well being informatics, neighborhood and behavioral well being promotion, environmental well being, epidemiology, kinesiology, vitamin, and public well being coverage). Our college are specialists on vital points like air air pollution and autism, most cancers, heart problems, well being disparities, huge information on well being, toddler mortality, mass incarceration, vitamin, tobacco and e-cigarettes, water well being, and extra. Our college students receive an training knowledgeable by a number of fields, that delivers concrete abilities via hands-on studying, from one of many nation’s prime universities for analysis and neighborhood engagement.
The Zilber Faculty is Wisconsin’s solely school of public well being accredited by the Council on Public Well being Training (CEPH). It is usually dwelling to Wisconsin’s solely MPH path to the Registered Dietitian credential accredited by the Accreditation Council for Training in Vitamin and Dietetics (ACEND).
The Zilber Faculty embraces its mission to advance inhabitants well being, well being fairness, and social and environmental justice amongst various communities in Milwaukee, the state of Wisconsin, and past via training, analysis, neighborhood engagement, and advocacy for health-promoting insurance policies and methods. We educate present and future well being professionals within the science, observe, vital pondering, and management abilities essential to advertise inhabitants well being and scale back well being inequities.
Milwaukee is a vibrant, various city space on the shores of Lake Michigan with easy accessibility to seashores, a thriving cultural scene, an expansive city parks system, and lots of of miles of motorbike lanes and paths. There may be nice enthusiasm inside the Milwaukee space for selling public well being and techniques change. Alternatives for collaborative analysis and observe throughout a number of establishments and community-based organizations can be found. The Zilber College’s five-story LEED-certified principal facility close to downtown gives ample house for collaborative, interdisciplinary analysis and anchors one among Milwaukee’s reworking historic neighborhoods. Moist laboratories on the primary UW-Milwaukee campus additionally present complementary house for cutting-edge, laboratory-based public well being analysis.
Job Abstract The Joseph J. Zilber Faculty of Public Well being (Zilber Faculty) invitations functions from excellent candidates for a minimum of one tenure-track Assistant Professor place in Epidemiology. We search revolutionary students and educators with robust methodological experience to assist our mission of advancing inhabitants well being, well being fairness, and social and environmental justice via training, analysis, neighborhood engagement, and advocacy for health-promoting insurance policies and methods. Candidates from all areas of epidemiology will likely be thought of with precedence given to candidates with analysis and educating pursuits in social epidemiology. Students who conduct translational or community-engaged analysis connecting epidemiology to public well being observe or coverage are particularly inspired to use.
This place is a 100% hard-money funded tenure-track 9-month tutorial yr appointment with aggressive wage, engaging advantages, analysis incentives and start-up package deal, a diminished educating load for the primary two-three yr start-up interval, and the flexibility to generate summer time wage.
The candidates should possess a doctoral diploma in Epidemiology by the point of appointment and have a observe document of impartial epidemiological analysis commensurate with years of expertise. Candidates with social epidemiological analysis and educating experience are extremely wanted. Choice will even be given to candidates with analysis and educating experience in: social epidemiology, infectious illness epidemiology, translational or community-engaged analysis connecting epidemiology to public well being observe or coverage, and abilty to show utilized epidemiological strategies.
In July 2023, the Zilber Household Basis offered the College of Wisconsin- Milwaukee with the biggest single reward within the historical past of the College, a $20 million reward to advance well being fairness throughout the state and assist assist college excellence and scholar achievement within the Zilber Faculty. The Zilber Faculty was based in 2009 and is the one CEPH-accredited college of Public Well being in Wisconsin.
Zilber Faculty college are main analysis packages that tackle public well being and well being fairness from the molecular to the societal ranges. Present analysis areas span most cancers, dietary, social and environmental epidemiology; girls’s well being; well being disparities; racism and well being; well being companies and coverage; maternal and youngster well being; world well being, genomics; epigenetics; developmental neurobiology; immunotoxicology; environmental toxicology; aquatic environmental microbiology and chemistry, know-how and conduct; and well being promotion. We provide PhD and MPH levels in epidemiology together with a B.S. diploma in public well being. The Zilber Faculty additionally provides graduate levels in Biostatistics, Environmental Well being Sciences, Neighborhood and Behavioral Well being Promotion, and Public Well being Coverage. Our multidisciplinary MPH in epidemiology curricula put together college students to have interaction in rigorous, theory-driven, evidence-based, and community-engaged public well being observe and analysis, and our Ph.D. curricula engages college students to translate epidemiology to coverage.
The profitable candidates will likely be anticipated to take care of an lively analysis program; train graduate and undergraduate epidemiology programs; mentor graduate college students; and have interaction in college {and professional} and/or neighborhood service.
Minimal {Qualifications}
  • Doctoral diploma in Epidemiology by the appointment begin date
  • Monitor document of impartial epidemiological analysis
Most well-liked {Qualifications}
  • Potential to show utilized and superior epidemiological strategies.
  • Analysis and/or Educating expertise in social epidemiology.
  • Analysis and/or Educating expertise in infectious illness epidemiology.
  • Conducts translational or community-engaged analysis that connects epidemiology to public well being observe or coverage
Goal Wage Vary
Advantages and Complete Rewards As a part of UWM’s dedication to supporting the success of our staff members via optimistic experiences, staff are supplied with Advantages to Profit You and Your Life. UWM provides a complete advantages package deal and contributes in direction of the price of a number of profit plans. Workers with a qualifying place additionally obtain an intensive depart package deal together with trip, sick depart (with no expiration), private vacation, and paid authorized holidays. Please go to this hyperlink to view abstract advantages info. (Compensation figures are for instance functions solely.) UWM Advantages to Profit You and Your Life
Software Directions Candidates should apply on-line and submit the next required utility supplies:
a) a canopy letter describing analysis and educating pursuits,
b) a full CV,
c) a analysis assertion describing most important contributions and present and future analysis actions,
d) a educating assertion describing method, expertise and proof of educating excellence, and
e) contact info for 3 skilled references.
The anticipated begin date for this place is August 19, 2024, with each earlier and later begin dates negotiable. This can be a steady recruitment. Assessment of functions will start November 1, 2023 and proceed till place is stuffed. Software supplies acquired after November 1, 2023 could not obtain consideration.
Software Deadline
Steady (Open Till Stuffed?) No
If Steady, Preliminary Assessment Date 11/01/2023
Place Contact Title Amanda Grober
Contact Telephone 414-251-8499
Contact E mail [email protected]
Software Notes For this place, candidates are required to use on-line. UWM is not going to think about paper, emailed or faxed functions. Moreover, candidates should full all required fields and fix any required paperwork. The method is full when the message “Your utility has been submitted” is displayed and also you obtain a affirmation quantity.
Authorized Notices AA/EO Assertion
UWM is an AA/EO employer: All candidates will obtain consideration for employment with out regard to race, coloration, nationwide origin, faith, intercourse, sexual orientation, gender identification/expression, incapacity, or protected veteran standing.
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Confidentiality of Applicant Supplies
UWM is a State company and topic to Wisconsin’s Open Data Regulation. UWM is not going to, nevertheless, reveal the identities of candidates who request confidentiality in writing besides as could also be required by Wisconsin’s Open Data legislation. In sure circumstances, the identities of “last candidates” and/or the identification of the appointed applicant have to be revealed upon request.
CBC and Reference Examine Coverage
Employment would require a felony background test. UWM takes the prevention of sexual misconduct significantly. As such, you and your references will likely be required to reply questions relating to any previous findings of sexual violence and sexual harassment or any pending allegations of sexual violence or sexual harassment.
Annual Safety and Hearth Security Report (Clery Act)
For the UWM Annual Safety and Hearth Security Studies (i.e., Clery Report), which incorporates statistics about reported crimes and details about campus safety insurance policies, see http://www.cleryact.uwm.edu/ , or name UWM’s Dean of College students Workplace, Pupil Union 345 at (414) 229-4632 for a paper copy.
Employment Authorization
In compliance with federal legislation, all individuals on the time of their begin date will likely be required to confirm identification and eligibility to work in america and to finish the required employment eligibility verification type upon rent.
Job Classes College/Instruction – Public Well being, Analysis

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