JOB OPPORTUNITY
Open Rank Faculty Position
Open Research Area and Tenure-Track/Tenured
Department of Bioethics and Health Humanities
Institute for Bioethics and Health Humanities
School of Public and Population Health
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
The Department and Institute of Bioethics and Health Humanities (BHH), housed in the School of Public and Population Health at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, is recruiting tenure track faculty member. This person will teach 2 small graduate seminars per year (30% education effort) and the remaining 70% effort will be for research. The research area is open, and we strongly encourage people whose work interfaces with law/policy or environmental health to apply.
Applicants should have a PhD, JD, or MD (or equivalent). They should have a record of scholarship in bioethics and health humanities. Preferred qualifications include strong promise for external funding, skills in collaborating across disciplines, and knowledge of academic health centers. The successful candidate will receive start-up funds, research support, and a competitive salary.
Interested applicants must apply online at https://www.utmb.edu/hr/careers and submit a letter of interest with a description of experience, research and teaching interests, and career goals, along with their curriculum vitae to the Search Committee (bhh@utmb.edu). Review of applications will begin immediately and applications received by August 31 are guaranteed review.
About the Institute of Bioethics and Health Humanities
The IBHH is committed to moral inquiry, scholarship, teaching, and professional service in medicine, health care, and public health. The successful candidate will join an interdisciplinary faculty group with training in ethics, humanities, and social sciences. The faculty engage in research, clinical and community service, and the teaching of graduate students and medical and other health professions trainees. The IBHH also offers an ethics consultation service in the university’s health system. The IBHH houses the nation’s only Ph.D. program in Bioethics and Health Humanities. More information can be found at https://ibhh.utmb.edu/.
UTMB was established in 1891 as the first academic health center in Texas and is a component of the University of Texas System. Today UTMB includes five schools (medicine, nursing, health professions, graduate biomedical sciences, and public and population health), a network of hospitals and clinics that provide a full range of primary and specialized medical care, and numerous research facilities. Opportunities for research collaborations exist with more than 40 research centers and institutes located on campus, covering a wide range of research interests including aging, rehabilitation sciences, women’s health, environmental health, translational sciences, infectious diseases, and vaccines (see www.utmb.edu/centers/ for more information).
The city of Galveston is a popular tourist and cruise ship destination that includes beaches, museums, historical architecture, a vibrant arts community, and excellent restaurants, all located only 45 minutes away from Houston, the nation’s fourth largest city.