The Division of Reproductive and Population Health (“Pop Health”) in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health is hiring an associate, full, or advanced assistant professor to join our faculty. A research-based, non-clinical division, Pop Health includes social scientists and public health scholars, affiliated clinical faculty from other divisions, and social scientists from across campus who collaborate on research and teaching.
To complement our current faculty, we wish to recruit a researcher with expertise in birthing people’s autonomy and equity. The scholar should take a critical approach to pregnancy and birth outcomes and could focus on equity/inequity using a variety of axes, including (but not limited to):
• Racism and racial identity
• Ethnicity
• Indigeneity
• Sexual identity
• Gender identity
• Immigration status
• and/or rurality
While we are most interested in scholarship based in the US context, we would also consider researchers with a more global focus on birth equity or obstetric violence.

Candidates should have a PhD or other doctorate (ScD, PsyD, MD, DNP, etc.) in public health, public policy, health services research, medicine, nursing, sociology, demography, social work, anthropology, or related discipline.
The expectation is that candidates will either already have well-established research programs or show outstanding potential for securing external funding for their developing programs.
The role would involve mentoring of and collaboration with ob-gyn junior faculty and scientists, residents, fellows, and other trainees. Some teaching of medical students and/or graduate students is anticipated; however, the position entails no undergraduate teaching.

The ideal candidate will be able to assume leadership of the Pop Health Division within 1-3 years of starting the position.