Career Opportunities for Faculty
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Focus areas for the College of Health faculty include epidemiology, biostatistics, community health, health innovation and technology, global health, social and behavioral health sciences, and health policy and management. Lehigh welcomes applications for current faculty searches in the College of Health.
At the core of the College of Health is a commitment to foster positive change in the communities where we live and work by promoting social justice and health equity.
2026-27 Searches
The Departments of Community and Global Health and Population Health in the College of Health invite applications for a tenured faculty position at the Associate or Full Professor level with a specialization in vaccine policy, decision-making in clinical and public health settings, vaccine delivery and related services, immunization program delivery, understanding behavior change and the acceptability of interventions by specific communities, sustainable immunization financing, or closely related disciplines, with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2027. Departmental affiliation will be determined in advance of an offer. An administrative role may be available for qualified candidates.
Candidates must have earned a doctorate in health policy, health economics, public health, bioethics, epidemiology, or a closely related field by date of employment. Candidates must have a strong track record of scholarly publications in immunization and vaccine delivery or related services, implementation research, or policy advocacy in domestic or international contexts. The candidate must have a strong track record of external funding individually and as part of a team.
This position reflects the College of Health’s priority on building an Infectious Disease Research Cluster. As such, candidates should expect to contribute to team-based scholarly works and collaborative, center-level grant proposals as part of this cluster.
The Department of Biostatistics and Health Data Science in the College of Health invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor specializing in statistical methodology, quantitative trial design, and health data science approaches to infectious disease epidemiology, seroepidemiology, and/or immune response dynamics, with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2027.
Candidates must have earned a doctorate in biostatistics, epidemiology, public health, immunology or a closely related field with a focus on infectious diseases by date of employment. Candidates must have a strong track record of interdisciplinary, scholarly publications in seroepidemiology which may include: statistical or computational methods for serological data, geospatial modeling, the planning and implementation of serological studies to monitor infectious disease burden in populations.
This position reflects the College of Health’s priority on building an Infectious Disease Research Cluster.
As such, candidates should expect to contribute to team-based scholarly works and collaborative, center-
level grants as part of this cluster. This candidate will augment existing faculty strengths in:
computational epidemiology, pathogen dynamics, agent-based modeling, infectious disease forecasting,
and public health engineering.
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Lehigh University is a 2010 recipient of an NSF ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Grant.
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Lehigh Valley Inter-regional Networking & Connecting (LINC) is a newly created regional network of diverse organizations designed to assist new hires with dual career, community and cultural transition needs.
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