Open Rank Professor in Climate Change and Community Health
Company: University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA)
Location: Los Angeles
Posted on: October 19, 2024
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Job Description:
Position overview
Position title:
Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor
Salary range:
The posted UC Salary Scales set the minimum pay determined by rank
and/or step at appointment. The salary range for this position is
$78,200-$205,400, negotiable based on experience. Salaries must be
approved by the Chancellor. Consistent with recent hires, and based
on experience, it is expected that this base amount will be
supplemented by an additional 50-55% off-scale rate, equal to a
maximum off-scale range of $121,200 to $318,400. This salary does
not include other components of pay raised through extramural
funds, which would yield compensation that is higher than this
range.
Application Window
Open date: October 17, 2024
Next review date: Sunday, Nov 17, 2024 at 11:59pm (Pacific
Time)
Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the
committee.
Final date: Friday, Feb 28, 2025 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Applications will continue to be accepted until this date, but
those received after the review date will only be considered if the
position has not yet been filled.
Position description
The Department of Community Health Sciences at the UCLA Fielding
School of Public Health (FSPH) invites applications for a tenured
or tenure-track faculty member with expertise in the areas of
climate change and community health. The position is open rank, and
we strongly encourage applications from both established scholars
as well as doctoral candidates or recent PhDs applying at the
assistant professor level.
Climate change is perhaps the most pressing public health threat
facing communities in California and the world, with both immediate
and long-term implications. Climate change may affect health
through weather-related hazards, and through its effects on
livelihoods and other life-sustaining systems. The current and
future health impacts of climate change are not randomly
distributed throughout the population, but rather
disproportionately affect regions, communities and individuals who
already bear a burden of negative social determinants of health due
to factors such as racism and colonialism. As a result, while
tradeoffs may exist between addressing climate change and other
public health priorities, a range of policy solutions and
interventions exist that can simultaneously mitigate climate change
or improve climate resiliency while also addressing other social
determinants of health or enhancing community capacity. Combating
climate change, whether at the global or local scale, raises
extraordinary political, ethical and collective action challenges
that require science-based innovation and interdisciplinary
solutions. While these approaches must cut across important domains
of existing community health expertise, they also require scholars
with understanding of the climatological, geophysical and political
dimensions of climate change and the ability to collaborate with
other disciplines.
The UCLA Department of Community Health Sciences thus seeks an
emerging or established expert in climate change and community
health who can stimulate research and practice, train and mentor
undergraduate and graduate students, and engage in
interdisciplinary scholarship and training. Among many
possibilities, scholarly activity in this area could seek to
identify health burdens posed by climate change and increase
climate resilience across the lifespan, advance equitable solutions
that prioritize the needs of those who are most affected by climate
change, and/or support communities to better adapt to climate
change and become more resilient to future threats to their
well-being. We welcome candidates who work domestically or
internationally. We also welcome those who would be willing and
able to collaborate with faculty in other departments such as
Environmental Health Sciences, Geography or Urban and Regional
Planning. We would encourage successful applicants to affiliate
with campus-wide initiatives such as UCLA Institute of the
Environment and Sustainability (IOES), Center for Public Health and
Disasters, Center for Healthy Climate Solutions, Sustainable LA
Grand Challenge or UCLA Downtown. We welcome candidates whose
experiences in research, teaching, and community service have
prepared them to contribute to our commitment to diversity and
excellence.
The Department of Community Health Sciences (CHS), one of five
departments within FSPH, is concerned with social and behavioral
research applied to health, health promotion, and public health
practice. Our focus is on programs, policies, and actions that can
promote health in the context of social, cultural, political,
economic, and environmental factors. The faculty is
multidisciplinary and includes those whose primary training is in
the social sciences, behavioral sciences, medicine, nutrition,
demography, economic, and health promotion and education.
QUALIFICATIONS
Candidates must hold a doctoral degree in public health, social and
behavioral sciences, or related disciplines (e.g., PhD, ScD, MD,
DrPH or equivalent) by the time of appointment, 07/01/2025. They
must also demonstrate: (1) independent research and peer-reviewed
publications in areas central to the issues of climate change and
community health; (2) documented (or potential for) success in
obtaining extramural funding; (3) interdisciplinary research
collaborations; and (4) a commitment to excellence in teaching and
mentorship.
SALARY RANGE
The posted UC Salary Scales set the minimum pay determined by rank
and/or step at appointment. The salary range for this position is
$78,200-$205,400, negotiable based on experience. Salaries must be
approved by the Chancellor. Consistent with recent hires, and based
on experience, it is expected that this base amount will be
supplemented by an additional 50-55% off-scale rate, equal to a
maximum off-scale range of $121,200 to $318,400. This salary does
not include other components of pay raised through extramural
funds, which would yield compensation that is higher than this
range.
Questions about this position may be emailed to search committee
co-chairs, Dr. Randall Kuhn (kuhn@ucla.edu) or Dr. David Eisenman
(deisenman@mednet.ucla.edu).
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS
To be considered for this position, applicants must submit the
following documents no later than November 17, 2024
* Curriculum Vitae (C.V.): Your most recently updated C.V.
* Cover Letter: Letter addressed to the search committee, which
highlights your interest in, qualifications for, and fit with this
position.
* Statement of Research: A research statement highlighting
scholarly contributions of recent research and plans for the near
future.
* Statement of Teaching: Teaching statement outlining your teaching
philosophy, classroom and/or mentorship experience, and description
of courses you would like to teach at UCLA. You may also choose to
include previous teaching evaluations.
* Statement of Contributions to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:
Statement addressing past, current, and/or potential contributions
to diversity through research, teaching, and/or service. To learn
more about how UCLA thinks about contributions to equity,
diversity, and inclusion, please review our EDI Statement FAQ
document: https://ucla.app.box.com/v/edi-statement-faqs.
* References: Contact information for at least three professional
references. Please complete and upload the Reference Check
Authorization Release Form. We will solicit letters of
recommendation at later stages of the search process.
The University of California is committed to creating and
maintaining a community dedicated to the advancement, application,
and transmission of knowledge and creative endeavors through
academic excellence, where all individuals who participate in
University programs and activities can work and learn together in a
safe and secure environment, free of violence, harassment, bullying
and other demeaning behavior, discrimination, exploitation, or
intimidation. With this commitment as well as a commitment to
addressing all forms of academic misconduct, UCLA conducts targeted
employment reference checks for finalists to whom departments or
other hiring units would like to extend formal offers of
appointment into Academic Senate faculty positions. The targeted
employment reference checks involve contacting the finalists'
current and prior places of employment to ask whether there have
been substantiated findings of misconduct that would violate the
University's Faculty Code of Conduct. To implement this process,
UCLA requires all applicants for Academic Senate faculty positions
to complete, sign, and upload the form entitled "Authorization to
Release Information" into RECRUIT as part of their application. If
the applicant does not include the signed authorization to release
information with the application materials, the application will be
considered incomplete. As with any incomplete application, the
application will not receive further consideration. Although all
applicants for faculty recruitments must complete the entire
application, only finalists (i.e., those to whom the department or
other hiring unit would like to extend a formal offer) considered
for Academic Senate faculty positions will be subject to targeted
employment reference checks.
Qualifications
Basic qualifications
Candidates must hold a doctoral degree in public health, social and
behavioral sciences, or related disciplines (e.g., PhD, ScD, MD,
DrPH or equivalent) by the time of appointment, 07/01/2025.
Additional qualifications
Candidates must also demonstrate: (1) independent research and
peer-reviewed publications in areas central to the issues of
climate change and community health; (2) documented (or potential
for) success in obtaining extramural funding; (3) interdisciplinary
research collaborations; and (4) a commitment to excellence in
teaching and mentorship.
Application Requirements
Document requirements
Reference requirements
Apply link:
https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09849
Help contact: snickerson@ph.ucla.edu
About UCLA
As a University employee, you will be required to comply with all
applicable University policies and/or collective bargaining
agreements, as may be amended from time to time. Federal, state, or
local government directives may impose additional requirements.
The University of California 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.
For the University of California's Affirmative Action Policy,
please visit
https://www.ucop.edu/academic-personnel-programs/_files/apm/apm-035.pdf.
For the University of California's Anti-Discrimination Policy,
please visit
https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/1001004/Anti-Discrimination.
Job location
Los Angeles, CA
Keywords: University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA), Hemet , Open Rank Professor in Climate Change and Community Health, Education / Teaching , Los Angeles, California
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