The Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health invites applications for the position of Professor of Ethics and Population Health. We seek innovative scholars whose records and leadership demonstrate significant research and educational activity within and around the intersection of ethics and population health, including health priority-setting. The capacity to teach effectively in ethics and population health, to advise and mentor graduate students and junior faculty within a diverse, multidisciplinary department, and to contribute expertise in normative ethics to collaborative research, service, and teaching are also priorities. The Department and School will look to the successful candidate to extend and develop ethics as a field of scholarship within population health sciences.
Professor of Ethics and Population Health
Posted February 02nd 2022
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Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Boston, MA
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