Department Chair and Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences | Harvard University - Military Veterans

School: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Department/Area: Social and Behavioral Science Position Description: Description The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Harvard Chan School) invites applications for the position of Department Chair and Tenured Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences ( SBS ) . We seek an innovative scholar and visionary leader to direct a large, diverse, multidisciplinary department. The successful applicant will have an outstanding record of academic and research accomplishments, demonstrated leadership and administrative abilities, and a compelling vision for the department. The Department and School SBS has a mission to improve health throughout the lifespan, with a special emphasis on populations harmed by injustice. The SBS department brings together faculty trained in diverse disciplines whose research focuses on the social and structural determinants of health and behavioral outcomes, the development and evaluation of interventions and policies leading to the improvement of population health and health equity across the life course; the expertise encompassed involves theory, methods, and substantive knowledge. The department is a thriving community that is working collaboratively to build a healthier world in which there is improved health for all and reductions in social inequities in health. The department's educational mission is to train both scholars and practitioners: scholars whose research will illuminate critical social and structural determinants of health and who will identify and test innovative policy and interventions; and practitioners who are skilled in designing, implementing, and evaluating health enhancing interventions in real-world clinical, community, and policy settings. The department is composed of 26 primary faculty, approximately 34 doctoral and 84 master's students, 97 academic appointees, and 34 full-time staff members, and it includes 9 affiliated Centers, 2 affiliated interdisciplinary and interdepartmental concentrations, and 1 intradepartmental concentration. SBS is one of nine academic departments at Harvard Chan School, which is located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts, and the Chan School is home to more than 185 primary faculty and roughly 1,400 graduate-level students. Harvard Chan School goalsdelivering evidence-based education, creating and sustaining an inclusive intellectual community, translating academic knowledge into impactful service and population-based solutions, and employing the most innovative communication strategiesembrace both the scale and difficulty of today's public health challenges. By deploying key strengths in both the basic and social sciences, the School is able to confront the most pressing diseases of our time, to study their biopsychosocial foundations, and to address both individuals and entire populations. The goal is to consider health at the individual and population level and elucidate structural, institutional, and individual factors that influence health and thereby inform progress in clinical care, population health, and public policy for improving population health for all. The core vision of the Harvard Chan School is: