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Northern Arizona University Assistant Professor in Flagstaff, Arizona
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rAssistant Professor
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rLocation: SICCS
rRegular/Temporary: Regular
rJob ID: 608138
rFull/Part Time: Full-Time
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r Workplace Culture
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 School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems at Northern Arizona University brings together interdisciplinary expertise in cybersecurity, computer engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, eco/environmental informatics, astro informatics, and bio/health informatics. Our programs integrate computational and data sciences with engineering, natural and social sciences, arts, and business. Our faculty and academic programs combine expertise in environmental and ecological informatics, health and bioinformatics, computer science, cyber-security/cyber-engineering, and electrical engineering. We offer a variety of undergraduate and graduate degrees on these topics, offered by roughly 60 faculty in the school, with roughly 1,200 undergraduate and 500 graduate students. Our core mission is to integrate interdisciplinary developments in scientific and engineering knowledge around computation, data, and systems with traditional disciplines to drive breakthroughs that address key 21st-century challenges. Our faculty are shaping the School\'s ground-breaking research programs and the development of its innovative academic programs.
About the Position
The School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems (SICCS) at Northern Arizona University seeks to hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor with expertise in Health Services Research, Health Informatics, Data Science, Biostatistics and/or Epidemiology to expand our expertise in the broad area of health equity.
The successful candidate will hold a regular tenure-track faculty appointment in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems (SICCS) as well an assignment as a core member of the Center for Health Equity Research (CHER), a nationally recognized research center that seeks to eliminate health disparities among diverse populations of the southwestern United States. For more about research opportunities and synergy with CHER faculty and staff visit the Center for Health Equity Research.
The candidate will also have opportunities to be involved with the newly accredited residential and online Master of Public Health Program (Nutrition, Health Promotion, Indigenous Health) and the Interdisciplinary Health (IH) PhD Program (Disability, Health Equity, and Psychosocial Health) which is a collaborative effort between the College of Health and Human Services (CHHS) and the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS).
Initial start-up support for this position will come from the \"The Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative (SHERC)\" award to CHER/NAU from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) Research Centers for Minority Serving Institutions (U54). This award enables NAU to build and expand research capacity in biomedical, clinical, and behavioral sciences across the University. Successful candidates will be expected to advance the aims of the SHERC. SHERC researchers report within their home academic units for all aspects of annual and promotion/tenure review as well as annual workload assignments. For about research goals, capacity and opportunities within SHERC visit the
Southwest Health Equity Research Co