Applicants should send a cover letter that addresses their teaching and research interests, curriculum vitae (CV), and the names and contact information for three professional references through Interfolio at:
http://apply.interfolio.com/151197
The review of applications will begin October 1, 2024, but applications will be accepted until the position is filled.
All applications must be submitted via Interfolio, applications submitted through careers.umich.edu will not be reviewed.
The Department of Health and Human Services is seeking a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Health and Human Services at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. At the undergraduate level, the department is preparing students for careers and additional graduate training in social work, child life studies, public health, and other human services professions, as well as a wide range of health and medical fields. Candidates are sought who have teaching and research strengths that broadly support the curriculum, either in human services and/or public health. Candidates who have a completed Ph.D. in social work, counseling, psychology, public health, or related areas are encouraged to apply.
Candidates will be expected to teach required courses in the undergraduate Health and Human Services curriculum. The preferred candidate will have teaching strengths that support courses such as Systems of Care, Working with Vulnerable and Hard-to-Reach Populations, Introduction to Health Policy, and/or Macros Social Work, among others. A proven ability to develop curricula and teach both in person and online is strongly preferred.
Candidates should have substantive scholarly expertise in one or more defined health services areas in which they would have the potential to develop collaborative research efforts in the metropolitan Detroit area. We seek a colleague with an active research program and track record of published scholarship, as well as an ability to draw on this research to inform their teaching and service. Candidates engaged in multidisciplinary research or community-based research collaborations are welcomed.
The successful candidate will join a vibrant community of scholars collectively dedicated to addressing health and human service disparities with expertise in areas including gender and reproductive health, environmental health, community organizing, patient-centered health care, obesity and chronic disease, and coun
