Senior Lecturer in Global public health

Senior Lecturer in Global public health
Ref PAR 2022/221
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The School of Public Health and Community Medicine at the Institute of Medicine, conducts teaching and research in global public health, community medicine, occupational medicine, environmental medicine, social medicine, pharmaceutical use and policy. We also conduct teaching and research in nutritional epidemiology, insurance medicine, innovation and entrepreneurship, health economics, biostatistics and register epidemiology.
We are now seeking one or more senior lecturer(s) for teaching in the master programs in public health and global health as well as research in areas of relevance for those programs.
Subject area
Global public health
Subject area description
Global public health is a subject area that studies population health at the local to the global level. It is an interdisciplinary subject area that includes perspectives from a number of different disciplines. Important focus topics include determinants of population health at a structural and societal level, e.g. poverty, social inequality, lifestyle factors relationship to population health. An important part of global public health is the ability to formulate, analyze, and evaluate preventive health care interventions with respect to their effects on the population’s health including cost, efficiency and health inequality including aspects of societal norm and ethics.
Job assignments
Tasks include teaching, mentoring students and course leadership, where the latter include cooperative work within the group of teachers in planning, organizing and administering the courses in the master programs in public health and global health. The position also includes program-general tasks, student contacts, pedagogical development work, and cooperation with education-relevant agents within and outside the university.
Active research in the field is important and is expected to be related to in the teaching. Applying for external project funding and building up research projects is therefore of central importance in the work. This includes supervision of doctoral students and own active merit work to achieve a higher academic degrees.
Eligibility
Eligibility for employment as a teacher is stated in Chapter 4, Section 4 of the Higher Education Ordinance and the University of Gothenburg's employment regulations.
Requirements are a PhD degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline, such as global public health, public health science, health economics, epidemiology, biostatistics, or another discipline that the employer deems equivalent, as well as demonstrated pedagogical competence. The ability to teach in English is required.
Assessment
Assessment criteria for employment as a teacher are stated in Chapter 4, Section 3 of the Higher Education Ordinance and the University of Gothenburg's employment regulations.
The assessment is primarily based on pedagogical skills, secondarily on scientific skills.
In the assessment of pedagogical skills, broad competence that covers several of the various areas of global public health, but particularly quantitative or qualitative epidemiological methods, qualitative evaluation methods, and practical experience of implementation of research to practice (for example projects where the research results have been implemented in public health policies or practical guidelines, etc.) is particularly meritorious. The assessment also includes demonstrated good ability to meet students with different subject and professional backgrounds. Experience and skill in academic teaching in the subject must be well documented. The assessment of pedagogical skills refers to planning, ability to work based on given frameworks, implementation and evaluation of teaching, as well as supervision, examination, course development and course or program responsibility in areas relevant to the employment.
In the assessment of scientific skills, special emphasis will be placed on merits in global public health with relevance to areas covered in courses within our masters programs in global health and public health. Relevant areas include also fields that can build research and education collaborations to the departments strengths such as psychological health and/or young adults health.
It is a strong merit to have been granted research means in competition within relevant area but also from relevant funding agencies e.g national and international funding boards and trusts.
Administrative skills and the ability to interact with the surrounding community are also an advantage.
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