Overview
The Brown University School of Public Health Center for Health System Sustainability (CHeSS) invites applications for an Assistant or Associate Professor position on the Tenure Track. This position will carry an appointment in the Department of Health Services, Policy & Practice. The expected start date is January 1, 2025, but negotiable. The successful candidate will join a vibrant, collaborative research center with a successful portfolio of health services research focused on using international comparison of health systems to identify and inform improvements in health systems.
Applicants must have a doctoral degree (MD or a PhD) and training and experience in health systems, health services research, health policy, economics, epidemiology, pharmacology, and/or a related discipline, with strong evidence of rigorous research, teaching and mentorship, scholarly activity, and externally-funded research. We are especially interested in qualified candidates who can contribute, through their research, teaching, and/or service, to the diversity and excellence of the academic community.
The Center for Health System Sustainability brings together knowledge from across countries to identify ways in which health systems can maximize the health outcomes they produce, reduce health disparities, and improve efficiency. The Center’s research projects focus on improving our understanding of how health systems work, our methodological tools from which to carry out quantitative comparative research, and analyses from which to inform local, national and international policy makers on key health policy debates. Central to these efforts is the work of the International Collaborative on Costs, Outcomes, and Needs in Care (ICCONIC) which is housed at the Center. The ICCONIC effort is a partnership of international collaborators from North America, Europe and the Pacific who use patient level data across countries to compare similar patient groups and their care, costs and outcomes. The Center is also expanding its work to better understand the variations in pharmaceutical care and policy across countries and the impact this has on patient access to new and existing therapeutics, their appropriate use and patient outcomes.
CHeSS faculty are supported by experienced grants administrators, a biostatistical and data management core, and research integrity and compliance staff. Faculty and staff collaborate from pre-award grant development and submission through post-award activities. The Department of Health Services, Policy & Practice (HSPP), which houses the Center, is one of the four School of Public Health departments. It includes eight research centers, a top-ranked doctoral program, and post-doctoral training programs supported by T32s from NIA and AHRQ. HSPP provides an academic home to researchers interested in a wide array of health services research populations, topics, and methods. Active projects range from pharmacoepidemiology and pharmaceutical health services research to health economics and health policy research, focused on populations and issues that include aging and older adults, end-of-life care, evidence-based medicine, care delivery, quality of care, health disparities, and more.
Interested applicants should submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, and diversity statement through Interfolio at http://apply.interfolio.com/142009. Brown University seeks to recruit and retain a diverse workforce to maintain the excellence of the University, and to offer our students richly varied disciplines, perspectives, viewpoints, and ways of knowing and learning. In your diversity statement, please address how your past and present work demonstrates a commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, and how you intend to continue your commitment to diversity in future work. We value the different ways this might be demonstrated through scholarship, teaching, mentoring, service and community engagement.
The application system will open on February 27, 2024. Review of applications will begin on March 27, 2024, and will continue until an appropriate candidate is identified or the search is closed.
As an EEO/AA employer, Brown University provides equal opportunity and prohibits discrimination, harassment and retaliation based upon a person’s race, color, religion, sex, age, national or ethnic origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law, and caste, which is protected by our University policies.