Adjunct Faculty – Doctor of Public Health in Leadership Program (DrPH)

In support of the DrPH Program Strategy for Advancing Racial Equity (ARE), the UIC School of Public Health seeks 2-3 candidates for adjunct positions for the 2023-24 academic year who will strengthen the diversity of the DrPH program faculty with regard to professional and lived experience, scholarly training and discipline, and social demographics. This document provides an overview of the DrPH program, the adjunct faculty role, and key steps in the recruitment process.

Description: The DrPH program is designed to bridge public health scholarship and practice, and requires a faculty that brings diverse skills, perspectives, and areas of expertise related to public health leadership and practice. We seek adjunct faculty members whose teaching and scholarship align with our program principles of leading public health through equity, evidence, adaptive leadership, and systems change. Successful candidates should have methodological expertise in quantitative, qualitative, and/or mixed methods through demonstrated scholarship and/or practice. Adjunct faculty will serve as members of the DrPH program faculty team, a small and dynamic group of scholars from across divisions at the UIC School of Public Health.

Specific roles and responsibilities of adjunct faculty may include:

• Teaching: Adjunct faculty will teach one course per academic year. This may include core courses and may allow for the opportunity to develop courses designed to meet student needs/interests.

• Advising: Adjunct faculty will serve on a limited number of dissertation committees as well as chair a limited number of dissertation committees.

• Service: Adjunct faculty will participate in DrPH program activities, including faculty meetings and the annual Summer Institute.

Core courses include adaptive leadership and application, strategic management, and qualitative and quantitative research methods. Special topic courses include research design and systems thinking.

Adjunct faculty are required to participate in orientation and training sessions and to comply with academic and institutional policies. A learning management system is used to post syllabi and other materials and communicate with students.

Location: The DrPH program is a fully remote program that engages working professionals from across the US and around the world. This position can be fulfilled remotely with one strongly preferred in-person travel recommendation to the Chicago area each August for the DrPH Program Summer Institute.

Qualifications

Successful candidates will meet the following qualifications:

• A completed doctoral degree in public health or a related field (e.g., community health, public health, psychology, sociology, anthropology, public policy, or a related social science discipline)
• Professional practice experience including leadership roles in public health, healthcare, social services, research, or policy
• A record of or potential for excellent teaching, with emphasis on effective engagement of working professionals
• Experience in anti-racist, equity-forward, and social justice leadership approaches to impact policy and systems change
• A passion for using multiple research methods to advance practice-engaged scholarship in public health

Compensation

Adjunct positions are part-time positions with modest compensation. While adjunct faculty may not be eligible for many benefits, such as health care, they may still be eligible to participate in the State Universities Retirement System. Compensation will be based on the course load and administrative tasks such as chairing dissertation committees.

Applications

For fullest consideration, applicants should submit the following materials by January 15, 2023:

• A cover letter describing their:
  • Experience and approach to student advising
  • Area of content and/or methodology expertise for teaching
  • Diverse skills, perspectives, and areas of expertise related to public health leadership and practice
• A resume or curriculum vitae

An interview with a small group of DrPH program faculty and students may be scheduled via videoconference following an initial screening. Finalists will be asked to submit names of three letters of recommendation detailing the applicant’s teaching and practice.

Please apply here by the specified deadline: https://uic.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/2558?c=uic.

Questions: Contact Dr. Michele McCay, Mshade1@uic.edu

Who We Are:

The University of Illinois System is an equal opportunity employer, including but not limited to disability and/or veteran status, and complies with all applicable state and federal employment mandates. Please visit Required Employment Notices and Posters to view our non-discrimination statement and find additional information about required background checks, sexual harassment/misconduct disclosures, COVID-19 vaccination requirement, and employment eligibility review through E-Verify. The university provides accommodations to applicants and employees. Request an Accommodation.

The University of Illinois, Chicago is an acclaimed research institution dedicated to the discovery and distribution of knowledge. It is among the top five most diverse campuses in the nation and a national leader among urban, public higher education institutions in providing access to underrepresented students. Faculty, students and staff in every college work with neighborhood, foundation and government partners on a wide range of projects to improve the quality of life in communities around the world. Since 2010, UIC has been federally-designated as a Minority-Serving and an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution, and designation as a Hispanic-Serving Institution was received in 2016. Thus, UIC’s more than 20,000 undergraduate, 7,000 graduate and 4,000 professional students comprise one of the most diverse student bodies in the nation. The university’s institutional commitment and support for diverse student populations has been recognized nationally, including the 2018 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, the oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education.

The UIC School of Public Health is the only public health school in Illinois accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health. Dedicated to creating a healthy society, the school emphasizes real-world learning to make a difference populations around the world through partnerships with community groups and government agencies and a focus on social justice and reducing health inequities, faculty and students lead and implement projects that include violence prevention, HIV/AIDS prevention, environmental and occupational health, maternal and child health, health and aging, substance use epidemiology and intervention, and emergency and disaster preparedness.

The Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) degree offered at the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois Chicago provides comprehensive leadership training in all areas of public health, exposing students to the latest in research, practice, and theory. This completely online program is tailored to mid-career public health professionals who want to expand their knowledge and practice of public health. Our vision is to build a cadre of dedicated public health leaders who can set strategic direction, drive transformational change, create responsive systems, and contribute to the evidence base of public health practice. The DrPH program is facilitating an antiracist, equity-based, and strategic process to decolonize its research, teaching and practice curriculum and approaches. For more information about the DrPH program, please visit: https://publichealth.uic.edu/academics/public-health-degrees/drph/.