University of Houston

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The Hobby School of Public Affairs and Department of Economics at the University of Houston (UH) seek to hire a Presidential Frontier Faculty tenure-track faculty member at the rank of assistant professor in the fields of public health and health policy, to begin in the Fall of 2022. The Presidential Frontier Faculty program is a university-wide integrated interdisciplinary hiring campaign that is overseen by central university leadership, and encompasses hiring a large cohort of convergence research faculty to work on health, energy, sustainability and security. This search is part of a university-wide, multi-year, integrated, visionary hiring campaign to attract top scholars to support the University of Houston’s research focus on building an infrastructure for sustainable communities. We are interested in applicants who will bring fresh ideas, practical experience, and an interdisciplinary mindset. Our faculty include experts in theoretical, practical, and analytical disciplines associated with public policy and economics. We seek to complement that collective expertise with this hire.