Purdue University invites applications for eight tenure-track faculty positions in a research cluster centered on Prevention of Chronic Disease/Public Health at the Assistant Professor level or higher. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, public health, epidemiology, health informatics, and health technology. Successful candidates will work collaboratively in an inter-disciplinary cohort to advance the new initiative in Public Health research and education at Purdue University. Qualified applicants in one or more of the areas listed below may apply to up to three of the following positions.

One position of any rank is available in the Department of Nutrition Science for a candidate whose research focuses on the role of diet in prevention of chronic disease.

One Assistant Professor position is available in the Department of Health and Kinesiology for a candidate whose research focuses on one or more of the core public health areas: Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Admin. & Policy, Behavioral Theory, Environmental Health.

Six other positions will be selected from among the following Departments or joint appointment between Departments.

One Associate or Full Professor position is available for a faculty member whose established program of research focuses on primary prevention of chronic disease, health promotion, and use of technology in promoting health communication and/or health behaviors.

One Assistant or Associate Professor position is available. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, environmental epidemiology with research focused on neurodegenerative diseases, carcinogenesis, or other chronic diseases resulting from environmental and occupational exposure to metals, pesticides, particulates, or physical agents.

One Assistant or Associate Professor position is available. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, childhood obesity, health disparities, methodological and statistical approaches to public health, or family functioning and health.

One Assistant or Associate position is available where the focus is on consumer behavior and consumer economics. Research areas that will be considered for this position include demographics, application of analytics and visualization to very large health-related data sets to model health behaviors for disease prevention, forecasting, and other consumer behavior and economics related to disease and public health.

One Assistant Professor position is available. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, user interface design for healthcare and/or Healthcare Informatics applications, large scale health behavior patterns data mining and scientific visualizations, user-friendly mobile computing applications for patient homecare monitoring, innovative user interfaces for making Healthcare Informatics easily accessible to non-technical populations, information sharing among healthcare providers through informal communities using virtual community and social networking technology, alternate approaches for professional communications in Healthcare Informatics, simulation and gaming.