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Faculty Cluster Hire in Environmental Health Disparities Research

Employer
University of California, Irvine, Environmental and Occupational Health Department
Location
Corona Del Mar, California
Closing date
Jan 10, 2022

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Position Type
Faculty
Hours
Full Time
Specialty
Environmental Anthropology
Organization Type
Academic
Launched in August 2020, the UCI Black Thriving Initiative (BTI) is the University of California, Irvine's university-wide response to systemic racism. The BTI recognizes racism as an existential threat to the mission of the university and society at large. It mobilizes the entire campus to change the culture, harness the mission and engage communities to build a university where Black people thrive, including undergraduates and graduate students, faculty, and staff employees as well as alumni and communities served by UCI in California, the United States and around the world. For more information about the UCI Black Thriving Initiative, please visit https://inclusion.uci.edu/uci-black-thriving-initiative/.

Building on UCI's enduring commitment to inclusive excellence, the BTI faculty cluster hire program leverages the University's research, teaching, and service mission to advance understanding about the multi-faceted nature of the Black experience and the drivers of well-being in support of Black communities. To this end, each faculty cluster will receive a $150,000 augmentation award for programs that aligns with BTI.

This call for applications focuses on an Environmental Health Disparities faculty cluster to foster multidisciplinary collaborations that seek to understand and address the ways in which environmental stress and racism contribute to health disparities in Black communities. The cluster includes the Program in Public Health, the Henry Samueli School of Engineering, the School of Social Sciences, and the School of Medicine. The objective of this cluster is to build on existing UCI strengths focused on underserved populations and advance inclusive excellence at UCI by recruiting a diverse faculty focused on environmental health disparities as a form of anti-blackness that shapes the daily lives of Black people as well as the health and welfare of entire communities.

In Southern California, we see extreme environmental health disparities in Black communities, including those living near the Los Angeles International Airport and the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles. The Black Thriving Initiative Faculty Cluster Hiring Program provides an opportunity to recruit faculty who can contribute to advancing research, teaching, and service as well as the development of a Center for Environmental Health Disparities Research (https://sites.uci.edu/cehdr/) that will benefit communities with lived Black experiences of environmental injustice. As part of this campus-wide initiative to hire leading research faculty with a strong commitment to teaching, research, and service that will promote the success of the Black community, UCI announces the following positions:

Associate/Full Professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Program in Public Health

https://recruit.ap.uci.edu/apply/JPF07060

Applications are encouraged from candidates with a strong disciplinary background in environmental epidemiology with experience working in a multidisciplinary team on community-based research.

Appointment will be as a fiscal year (11-month) tenured Associate Professor or Professor.

Assistant/Associate Professor in the School of Medicine

https://recruit.ap.uci.edu/apply/JPF07086

Applications are encouraged from candidates with a strong disciplinary background in environmental and socioeconomic factors that influence Black thriving, and with experience working with multidisciplinary teams in community-based research.

Appointment will be as a fiscal year (11-month) tenure-track Assistant Professor or Associate Professor with tenure.

Assistant/Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering

https://recruit.ap.uci.edu/apply/JPF07082

Applications are encouraged from candidates with a research and educational focus on water quality and resource allocation issues, or air quality issues, that threaten the health of Black communities.

Appointment will be as an academic year (9-month) tenure-track Assistant Professor or Associate Professor with tenure .

Assistant/Associate Professor in the Anthropology Department, School of Social Sciences

https://recruit.ap.uci.edu/apply/JPF07056

Applications are encouraged from candidates with research focused on environmental injustice, health inequities and restorative possibilities in Black communities.

Appointment will be as an academic year (9-month) tenure-track Assistant Professor or Associate Professor with tenure .

Assistant/Associate Professor in the Department of Health, Society, and Behavior, Program in Public Health

https://recruit.ap.uci.edu/apply/JPF07061

Applications are encouraged from candidates with the experience and skills needed to conduct community capacity building initiatives, health and exposure studies, and ethnographic interviews.

Appointment will be as an academic year (9-month) tenure-track Assistant Professor or Associate Professor with tenure .

UCI offers competitive salary and attractive benefits packages, including a housing assistance program for new faculty members. The ADVANCE program for Equity and Inclusion in the Office of Inclusive Excellence offers several resources for recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce, including the Chancellor's ADVANCE Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for Academic Diversity, Dependent Care Travel Awards, and participation in the Faculty Success Program through the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity. UCI is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer advancing inclusive excellence. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected categories covered by the UC nondiscrimination policy. A recipient of an NSF ADVANCE award for gender equity, UCI is responsive to the needs of dual career couples, supports work-life balance through an array of family-friendly policies, and is dedicated to broadening participation in higher education.

When inquiring or applying for this position, please also reference AcademicCareers.com

Applicants with dual-career considerations can find university jobs such as professor jobs, dean jobs, chair / department head jobs, and other faculty jobs and employment opportunities at the University of California, Irvine and at other institutions of higher education in the region on www.AcademicCareers.com

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