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Assistant Professor - Human health and climate change (UPP)

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Position description

UC San Diego – Tenure Track Professor for Interdisciplinary Initiative in Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation: Human Health and Climate Change

The new appointments will carry out interdisciplinary research relevant to the effects of climate change on human health. Research will focus on the relationship between climate change, environmental quality and human health - with particular interest in population level effects. This can include direct and indirect impacts on health. The role of public health and policy makers in limiting these impacts along with the social, economic, and political barriers to their implementation will be considered. Faculty focused on adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, air pollution, coastal flooding, and other environmental factors within the context of health studies are being sought through this announcement.

All Assistant Professor level candidates for tenure track positions must have a record of excellence in research and scholarship and the potential for leadership in the field. All candidates must have a PhD in a relevant discipline such as epidemiology, toxicology, economics, or environmental sciences. It is expected that candidates demonstrate scientific independence and creativity through strong record of publications as well as extramural funding relevant to the level of experience. The candidate is expected to develop the area of health and climate change and demonstrate expertise in methodological approaches in environmental health.

The candidate will be expected to collaborate with different disciplines across campus, and is expected to divide their time between two (or more) disciplines including a discipline other than health as this is a joint position established for the purpose of promoting multidisciplinary research, and teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

The preferred candidates will have demonstrated strong leadership or a commitment to support diversity, equity, and inclusion in an academic setting.

The level of appointment and salary is commensurate with qualifications and based on UC pay schedules.

Completed applications received by November 13, 2015 will be assured of consideration and the positions will remain open until filled.

Applications must be submitted electronically through the AP-Online Recruit website:
https://apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/apply/JPF00933

Required materials are: (1) Cover letter explaining your background and relevance to this position, (2) C.V. with list of publications, (3) Statement of teaching, (4) Separate statement describing past experience in activities that promote diversity and inclusion and/or plans to make future contributions, and (5) Information for three professional references, including names, addresses, phone numbers, and email contacts.

Please direct inquiries to climatechangerecruit@ucsd.edu.

The University of California, San Diego has made an unprecedented commitment to understanding climate change impacts through long term global observations and modeling and addressing these impacts through the development of scalable adaptation tools and solutions. We invite applications from outstanding candidates for several new faculty positions. These positions are part of a bold multi-discipline, multi-year initiative that spans the entire University. Each appointment will be made jointly between at least two departments from across the campus in order to facilitate collaborations in new inter-disciplinary fields. They include but are not limited to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), Health Sciences (School of Medicine and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences), the Jacobs School of Engineering, the Division of Biological Sciences, the Division of Physical Sciences, the Division of Arts and Humanities, the Division of Social Sciences and the School of Global Policy and Strategy. The initiative in climate change impacts and adaptation seeks to build on existing cross-disciplinary strengths to understand the implications of climate change and address the planet’s most pressing climate related needs with actionable adaptation strategies. The initiative will leverage UC San Diego’s existing strategic partnerships to inform climate change policy and adaptation decisions at multiple levels - local, state, federal and international - and address issues related to national security, public safety, global health, resilience and more. In addition to these appointments, UC San Diego’s newly established Center for Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation demonstrates the organization’s commitment to addressing the consequences of climate change. UCSD is committed to academic excellence and diversity within the faculty, staff, and student body.

There will be four focus areas within the climate change impacts and adaptation initiative:
1) Human health and climate change
2) Hazards from climate impacts in the natural and built environment
3) Biological, ecological and human adaptation to climate change
4) Sensor and platform development to monitor the changing environment

Candidates may submit an application to one or more of these areas.
For applicants with interest in spousal/partner employment, please see: http://academicaffairs.ucsd.edu/aps/partneropp/index.html
for the UC San Diego Partner Opportunities Program.

The University of California San Diego is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status.

Application Requirements

Document requirements
  • Cover Letter - Explaining your background and relevance to this position

  • Curriculum Vitae - Your most recently updated C.V. with list of publications

  • Statement of teaching

  • Statement of Contributions to diversity - Applicants should summarize their past or potential contributions to diversity. See our Faculty Equity site for more information. http://go.ucsd.edu/2rQdpC3

  • Misc/ Additional (Optional)

  • Misc/ Additional (Optional)

Reference requirements
  • 3 required (contact information only)