The Rutgers School of Public Health is committed to recruiting and creating pathways of success for highly skilled  emerging professors who can contribute to and support the School’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.  The School, which is directed by the tenet of social justice and health equity, seeks to develop a diverse faculty that  reflects its commitment to serve the diverse people of our state, to maintain the excellence of the School, and to  offer our students richly varied disciplines, perspectives, and ways of learning.

With a focus on attracting and recruiting a diverse group of scholars, the School is establishing the Social Justice & Health Equity Postdoctoral Diversity Training Program. The program provides two calendar years of support. The  training program seeks to recruit public health scholars who can contribute to and support the School’s commitment  to diversity, equity, and inclusion and enable such individuals to establish their careers within New Jersey and  increase the number of federally funded grants to the state. The inaugural Social Justice & Health Equity Fellow will commence tenure on or about September 1, 2021.

The Social Justice & Health Equity Postdoctoral Diversity Training Program will create a pathway for promising  emerging scholars as well as the conditions for diversifying the professoriate at the Rutgers School of Public Health.  As per the School's newly adopted strategic plan, commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion represent three of  the School’s core values and attend to the population's shifting landscape within New Jersey and across the United  States. Recruiting and retaining emerging scholars who can offer diverse socio-cultural perspectives and experiences  will enrich the Rutgers School of Public Health. A diverse community is essential to creating an intellectually  challenging and inclusive educational environment. 

We will recruit scholars from across the United States but will give preference to long-time New Jersey residents as  to ameliorate the brain drain of scholars who reflect diverse socio-cultural perspectives and experiences from our  state. Selected scholars will be matched with and receive mentorship from a faculty member within the School and  will partake in all mentorship programs at the School and Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences. Scholars will  partake in educational programs that will further develop their scholarship, including grant writing, providing  opportunities for and guidance with teaching, and professional development to undertake community-engaged  research. In addition to the postdoctoral salary, the scholars will receive a research stipend to support and advance  career goals by attending conferences, conducting pilot studies, publishing, and more. As a commitment to excellence  in education, Fellows also will teach two courses per year with guidance from their mentor and leadership of the  School. 

Eligible scholars will be individuals who (1) have demonstrated an ability to support the School’s commitment to  diversity, equity, and inclusion, and (2) are within three years of completing their doctoral degrees with a degree in  public health, biomedical sciences, social sciences, or a related field. The scholar must work in a domain of expertise  including but not limited to at the Rutgers School of Public Health and must identify a primary Rutgers School of  Public Health faculty member who can serve as a mentor from among the faculty shown at  https://sph.rutgers.edu/about_us/faculty.php.

The 12-month salary is $60,000 including benefits and a research stipend of $7,500.

Apply online at https://jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/131577

You will be asked for the following in your application:

Official doctoral transcript

CV

Research Statement including identification of potential member (maximum 750 words) Plans for NIH funding during the postdoc period (maximum 250 words)

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