Professor (tenured/non-tenure track) Endowed Position - Center for Community Health Integration

We invite outstanding individuals to apply for a new endowed position, at the rank of Professor, in the Center for Community Health Integration {CHI). The Center is working on initiatives that develop capacity for shared learning for collective impact across important problems in health, health care, and society that require a systems approach and understanding from biology and behavior, person and population, stories and statistics.

Mid-career physicians/scientists with outstanding accomplishments at the level of Associate Professor or full Professor are especially encouraged to apply.

CHI conducts collaborative research, development, and education to advance community health and integrated, personalized health care. We work across multiple levels of a complex system to develop shared understanding of the effects of social, environmental and human systems on health. We seek faculty members with systems science expertise and experience working in/with practices and communities, to take on some of society's most challenging problems involving the health effects of:

- poverty and equity,
- human behavior and multilevel interventions,
- primary health care and the mechanisms by which it provides value,
- the interface between health care and public health systems, and
- gene-environment interactions.

Required Qualifications:
Candidate must have an earned Ph.D., M.D., DrPH degree or equivalent advanced academic doctoral degree, have substantive publication in refereed journals, consultation to prestigious institutions, honors and election to scientific bodies, and recognized leadership and influence in field of expertise evidenced by funded grants and authorship.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Expertise in integrated quantitative and qualitative methods, large database analyses, computational simulation modeling, network analysis, or spatial epidemiology.
- Experience is highly desired in working collaboratively across multiple levels of a complex system to develop shared understanding of the effects of social, environmental and human systems and to use that understanding to improve the health of individuals, vulnerable populations, and communities.
- Transdisciplinary experience and an ability to work across multiple sectors affecting health.
- Candidate must be able to demonstrate excellent oral and written communication skills, a record of leadership accomplishments, including the ability to attract external funding, as well as faculty and student development.

Based on the interests/goals/qualifications/discipline of the candidate, a dual appointment with another department within the eight schools and multiple center at CWRU is possible and desirable. Clinical work and/or community partnership with multiple collaborating health care systems and community­ based organizations also is possible and desirable.

How to Apply: Interested applicants should send a letter of interest, C.V. and three references to James Bindas, Executive Director, at chi-information@case.edu.

Case Western Reserve University is a top ranked, private research university located in one ofthe leading biomedical research and medical education centers in the world. Core values of academic excellence, inclusiveness and diversity, integrity and transparency and effective stewardship, makes CWRU an extraordinary place to work and develop an academic career.

In employment, as in education, Case Western Reserve University is committed to Equal Opportunity and Diversity. Women, veterans, members of underrepresented minority groups, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Case Western Reserve University provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. Applicants requiring a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process should contact the Office of Equity at 216-368-3066 to request a reasonable accommodation. Determinations as to granting reasonable accommodations for any applicant will be made on a case-by-case basis.