We seek candidates with a doctorate in Public Health, Health Policy, Environmental Health, Bioinformatics, Epidemiology, Biostatistics, or a related discipline. Candidates should have good interpersonal communication skills and the ability to work cooperatively and congenially. Research areas of interest include but are not limited to chronic diseases, obesity, bioinformatics, and genetics. Experience conducting an intervention or clinical trial is desirable. Research on rural issues of disparity and concern especially related to chronic disease and obesity are desirable. Candidates should be skilled in teaching quantitative research methods and analyses, social and behavioral science, health policy, or other public health topics to students with a range of aptitude. Online teaching experience is desirable.
The tenure line rank will be Assistant Professor or Associate Professor. Assistant Professor candidates should have an earned doctorate (e.g., PhD, ScD, DrPH) or be ABD with all degree requirements to be completed by the time of appointment. Candidates should have teaching or teaching assistant experience and a beginning track record in scholarship with potential for extramural funding. Associate Professor candidates should hold doctorates, have excellent teaching records, and an established research record. For either rank, we seek candidates able to contribute to interdisciplinary team science and be conversant with public health practice. Additionally, an MPH or MS from an accredited School of Public Health is desirable. Faculty are expected to work on campus to engage with students, colleagues, and community.
Responsibilities include developing and maintaining an active research program, developing curricula, developing courses, teaching graduate and undergraduate students, mentoring students, and providing service to the university and profession. Faculty may contribute to a graduate health sciences program with a specialization in biostatistics and epidemiology and a health data science concentration of the BS in Data Science in the College of Science and Humanities.
Lifelong learning at Ball State University extends educational engagement beyond the classroom and includes learning for professional development, personal enrichment, or other goals throughout one’s lifetime. Faculty may be expected to participate in the university’s lifelong learning opportunities when available and may be assigned teaching responsibility in this area as part of their overall responsibilities. Other duties may include service to the university, community, and profession and contributions to student recruitment activities.
For Assistant Professor:
Doctorate in Public Health, Health Policy, Environmental Health, Bioinformatics, Epidemiology, Biostatistics or a related discipline; or, ABD with all degree requirements completed by date of appointment.
Relevant professional experience in public health or related discipline.
Evidence of ongoing or established scholarship
Evidence of ability to mentor or have mentored students
Ability to teach undergraduate and/or graduate students
Effective oral and written communication skills
For Associate Professor:
Doctorate in Public Health, Health Policy, Environmental Health, Bioinformatics, Epidemiology, Biostatistics or a related discipline.
At least 24 months (three academic years) of teaching experience
Relevant professional experience in public health.
Evidence of ongoing or established scholarship.
Evidence of ability to mentor or have mentored students.
THE DEPARTMENT OF NUTRITION AND HEALTH SCIENCES
The Department houses accredited undergraduate majors in dietetics, public health, respiratory therapy and radiography, minors in public health, nutrition, and workplace wellness, graduate programs in Nutrition and Dietetics, and Health Science with a track in Biostatistics and Epidemiology, and an accredited Dietetic Internship. Our programs serve 280 degree-seeking students and are supported by 35 full- and part-time faculty. Additionally, the Department offers popular courses on health and nutrition issues that extend our reach well beyond majors and drive total students instructed to among the top 7 departments in the university. We embrace this extraordinary opportunity to educate and improve health of all Ball State University under-graduates. Our undergraduate public health program provides a unique opportunity for students to fully engage in the regional community and beyond as they intern at a public health agency full time during their final semester. These and other activities help us contribute to the greater university goal 3D, “We collaborate with external partners to implement a regional plan to improve population heal...th and wellbeing” in the university strategic plan (Destination 2040, Our Flight Path), and align with the state’s Health First Indiana initiative which seeks improvement in health through these core public health services: Tobacco and Vaping Prevention and Cessation, Maternal and Child Health, Trauma and Injury Prevention, Access to and Linkage to Clinical Care, Chronic Disease Prevention and Lead Case Management.
Faculty and student mentees also have access to research laboratories in the Interprofessional Community Clinics with space devoted to assessment, sample collection, processing, storage and analytics. The Department also has a designated demonstration kitchen with attached classroom. The Welcome Home Suite, available for all faculty projects in the College of Health, is equipped with food preparation facilities, and feeding, resting and sample collection spaces. Faculty facilitate interprofessional education through collaborations with the College of Health Healthy Lifestyle Center and Simulation and Skills Laboratories.
THE COLLEGE OF HEALTH
A vital resource for Indiana for preparing health professionals, the College of Health is moving boldly forward in making interprofessional education, practice and research its paradigm across its disciplines. The College offers 32 academic programs in 7 units: Departments of Counseling Psychology, Social Psychology, and Counseling; Military Science; Nutrition and Health Science; Speech Pathology and Audiology; and Social Work plus the Schools of Nursing and Kinesiology. We are proud to be the academic home for the campus ROTC program, which commissions about 20 officers annually from Ball State and affiliated programs at nearby universities. Our 200 faculty and staff serve nearly 3,000 students. We partner with communities for immersive learning. Our Interprofessional Community Clinics and the Healthy Lifestyle Center offer health services and health education by faculty-supervised students. These clinics operate as an auxiliary to the college, providing an unusual opportunity for students to learn the business of health care. Faculty and students contribute to the evidence base for their respective disciplines. Our research is community engaged and features the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies, Human Performance Lab and the Center for Substance Use Research and Community Initiatives. The Fisher Institute for Health and Wellbeing is being re-envisioned as the College’s hub of community engagement. We are committed to inclusive excellence in all we do to contribute to a diverse health professional workforce to decrease health disparities. Our Health Professions Building, housing most of our academic programs, opened in 2019 with 165,000 square feet and is LEED Gold certified. The School of Kinesiology, in the Health and Physical Activity building, boasts adjacencies to Worthen Arena, Ball State Athletics, and the Jo Ann Gora Student Recreation and Wellness Center. Military Science is located in the historic Ball Gymnasium.
