The Department of Social Medicine, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, seeks applicants for multiple tenure-track or tenured faculty positions in health equity at the Assistant or Associate Professor rank. This positions will be supported through the UNC Center for Health Equity Research and the Department of Social Medicine. Review of applications will begin September 18th and continue until the position is filled. The anticipated start date is July 1, 2024. Applicants should hold a Ph.D., MD, or equivalent terminal graduate degree.
This position is part of The Ohio State University’s Provost’s Tenure-Track Fellow to Faculty Program.
The Provost’s Tenure-Track Fellow to Faculty Program is a two-year program that assists early career
scholars as they transition to the tenure track. The fellowship period provides for an in-depth start on
scholarship with limited teaching requirements (although Fellows may teach one course per year if they
choose) and designated faculty mentorship. Provost Fellows will also receive research funding and
Over the past decade, a new generation of precise and efficient gene editing techniques has brought new urgency and attention to the discussion of the ethics of human enhancement. In 2015, gene editing research in non-viable human embryos signaled that human applications were on the horizon which, in theory, could be aimed beyond disease treatment toward improvements upon normal human traits.
Project Narrative Studies suggest that distrust is a major barrier for participation of minorities in Precision Medicine Research (PMR), though no study has examined the sources of (dis)trust and factors affecting views on trustworthiness of PMR among people with disabilities. This study proposes to engage with people with mobility, visual and hearing disabilities?the most common conditions in the U.S.?across racial/ethnic communities and with translational genomic researchers, the leaders in PMR, to close this gap.