Professor in the Institute for Health and Lifespan Research

Professor in the Institute for Health and Lifespan Research

The University of Texas at El Paso invites applications for a Tenured Full Professor faculty position to anchor the newly established Institute for Health and Lifespan Research (IHLR).

The IHLR faculty hired is expected to advance interdisciplinary team science within the Institute's One Health and Precision Health cores, contributing to research that promotes healthier aging and improved lifespan across human, animal, plant, and environmental domains. Candidates with expertise relevant to lifespan health, regional health disparities, and integrative biological-behavioral-environmental approaches, including areas such as brain and behavioral health, metabolic and cardiovascular health, cancer, infectious diseases, and environmental determinants of health, are especially encouraged to apply.

The successful candidate will pursue high-impact, collaborative research that secures external funding and translates discoveries into practice through implementation science, health services research, behavioral intervention science, and/or translational research focused on health disparities,

The IHLR faculty are expected to accelerate research in health and lifespan research through team & convergence science expertise/interest while actively engaging in interdisciplinary and translational research teams. Preference will be given to candidates with expertise and prior research success evidence by grants (federal, state, private) and scholarly products in IHLR priority areas of health and lifespan research, particularly in the areas of brain and behavioral health, healthy aging, and regional health disparities of focus (diabetes, cardiovascular health, cancer).

IHLR faculty will contribute to UTEP's interdisciplinary mission through research, teaching, and service. Candidates are expected to foster community, industry and government partnerships to advance IHLR goals. Successful candidates will engage in high-impact, collaborative research addressing pressing health challenges within and/or across human, animal, plant, and environmental domains. Areas of expertise may include public health, microbiology, immunology, pharmacy, biomedical engineering, epigenetics, genomics, systems level approaches. implementation science, anthropology, infectious diseases, and related disciplines/fields.

Job Requirements:

• Earned doctorate (PHD, ScD, MD, DrPH, DMD etc. or equivalent) in a health-related discipline, biomedical sciences, engineering, social sciences, or other relevant field.
• Established record of high-impact, peer-reviewed publications.
• Demonstrated success as Principal Investigator (PI) or Co-PI on significantly large externally funded research grants (e.g., NIH, NSF, HRSA, DOE) with sustained funding history.
• Demonstrated ability to build and sustain federally funded research centers, cores, or multi-PI initiatives.
• Evidence of leading large-scale, interdisciplinary research/team science initiatives or centers relevant to IHLR goals and cores.
• Experience mentoring junior faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students.
• Documented excellence in teaching and curriculum development.
• Active engagement in professional service at national or international levels.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Expertise in One Health, Precision Health, or lifespan research frameworks.
• Ability to integrate AI, data science, or advanced analytics into health research.
• Experience in community-engaged research or working with underserved/rural populations.
• Bilingual ability (English/Spanish) for research in the U.S.-Mexico border region.
• Record of collaboration with national labs, industry, and/or government agencies.
• Global health research experience

Additional Information:
In keeping with its access, excellence, and impact mission, The University of Texas at El Paso is committed to an open, diverse, and inclusive learning and working environment that honors the talents, respects the differences, and nurtures the growth and development of all. We seek to attract faculty and staff who share our commitment.

The University of Texas at El Paso is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The University does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or sexual orientation and gender in employment or the provision of services in accordance with state and federal law. Discrimination on the basis of sex includes an employee's or prospective employee's right to be free from sexual harassment under Title IX of the Higher Education Amendments of 1972. Inquiries-including the filing of a Formal Complaint or reporting an incident-about the application of Title IX may be referred to the Title IX Coordinator, who can be reached by phone at (915) 747-8358, by email at [email protected] , or by mail at 500 W. University Ave., El Paso, TX, Kelly Hall, Room 312.

For accommodation information for employees and applicants with disabilities, please contact UTEP's Equal Opportunity Office at [email protected] .

To the extent that this position involves research, work, or access to critical infrastructure as referenced in Executive Order GA-48, being hired for and continuing to be employed in this position requires the ability to maintain the security or integrity of the infrastructure.
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