[Jobs] Director for the Center for Elimination of Border Health Disparities (C-BORD)

[Leora Lawton]

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*Director for the Center for Elimination of Border Health Disparities
(C-BORD)*

The University of Arizona seeks to hire an accomplished scientist and
leader in population-based health research to direct a new Center for
Border Health. The new center will focus on the unique public health
challenges, intervention opportunities, and health outcomes in the
US-Mexico border region. The center will serve as a catalyst and hub for
interdisciplinary and binational collaboration that examines the impact of
policy, environment, health care delivery, genetic determinants, and other
factors on health outcomes on both sides of the US-Mexico border. A major
focus of this center will be innovative, evidence-based approaches to
prevention and health care delivery in this diverse and dynamic region.

The center and its director will engage the University of Arizona’s large,
interdisciplinary community of investigators and clinicians in the five
health sciences colleges (College of Medicine – Tucson, College of Medicine
– Phoenix, College of Nursing, College of Pharmacy, and the Mel & Enid
Zuckerman College of Public Health), as well as faculty in the colleges of
science, social and behavioral sciences, agriculture and life sciences, and
the BIO5 Institute. To facilitate its research, the center and its director
will rely on a network of partnerships and area sites of service and
research, such as the Dean Carter Binational Center for Environmental
Health Sciences, the US-Mexico Border Health Commission, Area Health
Education Centers, and American Indian nations in Southern Arizona and
beyond.

The Director will have the opportunity to build a program that puts Arizona
at the forefront of research, education, and clinical care that target
health disparities and other population- and region-specific challenges in
the prevention and control of infectious and chronic diseases. To
accomplish this, it is anticipated that the director will build
interdisciplinary relationships and collaborations with the newly
established Center for Population Science and Discovery and the Center for
Applied Genetics and Genomics Medicine, as well as long-recognized centers
and programs such as the Center for Rural Health and the Arizona
Telemedicine Program.

For the center’s inaugural Director, we seek an established scientist with
a strong record of extramural funding and research productivity in relevant
areas of investigation. We seek an individual who embraces a collaborative
and inclusive approach to research and education, with experience building
successful, multidisciplinary programs and community partnerships.

Reporting directly to the Senior Vice President for Health Sciences, the
Director will have his/her academic appointment in one of the colleges of
the Arizona Health Sciences Center (colleges of medicine, nursing,
pharmacy, or public health) and will likely have other joint appointments
that facilitate intra-university engagement.  S/he will be expected to play
a regional leadership role, interacting with other research, service, and
clinical institutions across the Southwest and Mexico to advance research
in health disparities and health barriers along the US-Mexico border, and
to facilitate the discovery of focused health solutions for the region,
contributing as well to a broader base of knowledge applicable to other
binational, multinational, and migration-centered settings.

Qualified candidates must possess an advanced health professions degree
(e.g., MD, PhD, PharmD, DNP, etc.) and be eligible for a University of
Arizona academic appointment at the Associate Professor level or higher.
Candidates should also have demonstrated relevant experience in
border/global health and/or ethnic health disparities research and program
management preferably in an academic institution.

Interested candidates should contact [name], Search Committee Chair, at
srvp-ahsc at email.arizona.edu and apply via UA Career Track, by submitting a
cover letter and curriculum vitae through www.uacareertrack.com for Job
Number [XXXXX].




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Leora Lawton PhD
Executive Director
Berkeley Population Center
350K Barrows Hall
(of) 510-643-1270
(m) 510-928-7572
www.popcenter.berkeley.edu
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