6 Health Disparities jobs

Position Overview The Department of Psychology at The Ohio State University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor or tenured Associate Professor or Professor faculty position in diversity science. We welcome applications from scholars who address topics relevant to diversity and/or health equity in their research and teaching/training, including but not limited to prejudice, implicit bias, neural processes underlying biased perceptual processing, sampling bias, measurement bias, measurement development, physical and mental health disparities, and treatment bias in medical and mental health. As such, the scholar could be hired into any one of our department training/research areas including social, developmental, quantitative, clinical, cognitive, or behavioral neuroscience and could affiliate with a cross-cutting initiative in the department such as cognitive neuroscience or decision psychology. The scholar would extend our department’s work in diversity...

Position Overview The Department of Psychology at The Ohio State University invites applications for an early-career scholar with a focus on Psychological Science and Racial and Health Disparities. This position is part of The Ohio State University’s Provost’s Tenure-Track Fellow to Faculty Program. The Provost’s Tenure-Track Fellow to Faculty Program assists early career scholars to transition to the tenure track. Provost Fellows receive research funding and participate in career development programs to support their transition to assistant professor and their long-term career success. Provost Fellows focus time on research for up to two years allowing for an in-depth start on scholarship with limited teaching requirements (Fellows have the option to teach one course per year if they choose), participate in the activities within the Department of Psychology, and have a designated faculty mentor. Following the two-year fellowship period, which is an instructor rank...

Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track - Health Equity Department of Human Centered Design Cornell University   The Department of Human Centered Design brings multidisciplinary perspectives together to improve human wellbeing through design. Through transdisciplinary thinking and expertise, we bring arts and design, material and social sciences, to innovate, investigate, and address real-world challenges by using analog and digital knowledge, tools, rigorous research methods, and creative processes. Our faculty includes anthropologists, engineers, psychologists, material scientists, geographers, public health and experts in apparel, graphic, interior, industrial design and architecture.  We work together and collaborate externally with colleagues from across the university, as well as industry and non-profit community partners, to conduct research and enhance students’ learning. Using state-of-the-art lab and studio spaces, we conceptualize, prototype, and...

The Department of Psychology at Centenary College of Louisiana invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position to begin in August 2024. We seek a colleague who is committed to excellent undergraduate teaching, who can develop a productive line of research involving undergraduate students, and who is committed to working with students who are diverse in terms of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and economic background.  A strong commitment to teaching in a student-centered liberal arts environment is essential. Teaching duties will include a lower-level Biological Psychology course, upper-level courses in their area of expertise, and core psychology courses (e.g., intro, methods, stats). We are especially seeking a candidate who will contribute to developing new courses to add to our existing psychology offerings. The teaching load is six courses per year, with the opportunity to teach courses in the...

The Department of Psychological Sciences at Rice University (Houston, Texas) invites applications for two (2) tenure-track assistant professor positions to begin July 1, 2024. Position #1 is in an APPLIED area of psychological sciences with a focus on the application of theory and research to address society’s greatest challenges. We seek candidates whose quantitative-based scholarship deeply bridges across at least two of our existing program areas in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Human Factors/Human Computer Interaction, Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience, and Health Psychology . Example topics might include (but are NOT limited to): occupational health or workplace stress/safety/macroergonomics, automation/AI applied to the future of work, training for an aging and diverse workforce, team effectiveness in health care, assistive devices for individuals with physical and cognitive disabilities, augmented cognition/intelligence, neurofeedback...

The Department of Kinesiology and Health at Rutgers University - New Brunswick invites applicants for a tenure-track position in area of Physical Activity Assessment/Intervention at the level of Assistant Professor to begin in the Fall 2024. Candidates with expertise in physical activity assessments or interventions designed for underrepresented and historically marginalized racial and ethnic groups, gender- and sex-based minority groups, and/or people with disabilities are particularly encouraged to apply. Specific relevant research topic areas of interest include (but are not limited to) increasing health equity or reducing health disparities, mechanisms of physical activity and health behavior change, community-based interventions, health-related motivation, and real-time data capture (ecological momentary assessment or intervention).   Our department, as part of the Division of Life Sciences in the School of Arts and Sciences...