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San Francisco State University, Department of Health Education is seeking a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Critical Public Health to start in August 2020. We seek a colleague whose teaching and research interests include the application of critical public health principles of health equity, social justice, analysis of power and resources, and reflexivity to advance knowledge andContinueContinue reading “Opportunity at San Francisco State University”

The University of Massachusetts (UMass) Medical School in Worcester, MA, is recruiting a tenure-track faculty member at the Assistant Professor level in the Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine in the Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences (PQHS) The Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine is a multi-disciplinary group dedicated to improving clinical andContinueContinue reading “Faculty Opportunity at UMass Medical”

Baylor University is seeking to fill two faculty positions in the Department of Public Health in the Robbins College of Health and Human Sciences ~ Full-time Lecturer in Public Health (non-tenure track) This is a “non-tenure track” position that will be predominately focused on teaching core undergraduate public health courses in the Bachelor of ScienceContinueContinue reading “Faculty Opportunities at Baylor University”

Congratulations to HELI 2016 Alumna Dr. Lesliam Quirós-Alcalá! Lesliam Quirós-Alcalá, PhD, recently joined the faculty in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health as a tenure-track Assistant Professor. She will retain her University of Maryland School of Public Health affiliation as Adjunct Assistant Professor in theContinueContinue reading “New Position for HELI Alumna Dr. Quirós-Alcalá”

Congratulations to HELI 2016 alumna Saria Lofton, PhD, RN, on her 2019 diversity supplement award from the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)! In 2017, Dr. Lofton was awarded a two-year NIH supplement, through NINR, under the R01 “Community-Based Implementation Model for HIV Prevention and Testing in Malawi” PI: Kathleen F. Norr, supporting diversity ofContinueContinue reading “Congrats to HELI Alumna Dr. Saria Lofton”

Congratulations to HELI 2018 alumna Jamila Kwarteng, PhD, on her recent pilot award! Dr. Kwarteng has received $30,000 in pilot funding to support her community-engaged project entitled, “African American Cancer Survivor Network: Building Community among African American Cancer Survivors.” The award is an internal grant funded by the Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Center andContinueContinue reading “Congrats to HELI Alumna Dr. Jamila Kwarteng”

The University of Kentucky is seeking Assistant, Associate, or Full Professors for tenure track, full time positions in the newly established Center for Health Equity Transformation (CHET) in the College of Medicine. They seek health equity researchers with a dynamic, productive research agenda that aims to eliminate inequities in cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity,ContinueContinue reading “Faculty Opportunity at University of Kentucky”

We are pleased to announce that our next Health Equity Leadership Institute (HELI) will take place on Thursday, June 25 and Friday, June 26, 2020 in Madison, WI. 2020 is our 10 year anniversary, and instead of hosting our weeklong Institute, we will host a two-day anniversary conference celebrating 10 years of the evolution ofContinueContinue reading “Save the Date for HELI 2020!”

We are pleased to congratulate HELI 2018 alumna Maria Mora Pinzon, MD, on her selection to participate as an emerging scholar in the scientific training program, Interdisciplinary Aging Research to Address Health Disparities in Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD)! Funded by the National Institute on Aging, the two-year program supports 10 emerging scholars fromContinueContinue reading “Congrats to HELI Alumna Dr. Maria Mora Pinzon”