Assistant Professor in Health Ethics - Tenure Track Position
The Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University is seeking an exceptional health ethics scholar with expertise and experience in population and public health ethics. The successful applicant will be expected to maintain a productive interdisciplinary research program and contribute to undergraduate and graduate education. The successful candidate will be expected to actively contribute to collaborative and multi-disciplinary research activities. He/she will demonstrate the capacity to attract research grants and publish their research in peer-reviewed journals in their respective subject areas.
This position has a course load of three courses per year. The Faculty of Health Sciences offers exciting opportunities to participate in developing and delivering curriculum in our undergraduate (BA and BSc), and graduate programs (Master of Public Health (MPH), M.Sc. and PhD). Candidates should have demonstrated experience and a strong commitment to graduate and undergraduate curriculum development related to health ethics. At the undergraduate level, he/she should expect to teach courses in Applied Health Ethics and Global Health Ethics. He/she should also be able to teach graduate-level courses in these areas as well as propose new courses. Supervision of undergraduate honours degree students, MPH, MSc and/or PhD students will also be expected.
To apply for this position, candidates should submit a full curriculum vitae, a letter of application, and a descriptive statement of teaching background, research activities, and any administrative and leadership experience. These materials, along with the names and contact information of at least three academic references should be submitted electronically to: [email protected], clearly noting ‘Health Ethics’ in the subject line of the email. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. In addition, only referees of shortlisted candidates will be contacted and candidates will be notified if reference letters are requested.
The deadline for submission of applications is January 15, 2015 with a position start date of September 1, 2015.
Full job ad available at: http://www.sfu.ca/fhs/employment-opportunities/faculty.html
