Tenure-eligible Associate or Full Professor & Research Leader in Developmental H

Company: Source Point Staffing
Location: Chicago
Posted on: February 11, 2025

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Tenure-eligible Associate or Full Professor & Research Leader in Developmental Health
The Center for Childhood Resilience (CCR) in the Pritzker Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago (Lurie Children's) and Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences (DevSci), Northwestern University invite applications for a tenure eligible faculty leadership position (associate-to-full professor) with a focus on developmental health equity.
This is an ideal position for senior leaders who relish an opportunity to cross-fertilize applied and scientific communities and to catalyze novel initiatives to amplify the impact, reach and scalability of pediatric research supporting mental health and wellbeing of diverse children, families and communities. We seek an exceptional mid-to-advanced career innovator, investigator and leader, with a history of robust extramurally funded research portfolio and scholarly productivity in pediatric mental health equity research with a developmental lens.
The ideal candidate will lead and innovate in community-engaged research design, methods and implementation in a manner that centers on the diverse lived experience of young children and families. This includes a broad focus on early identification and prevention of mental health risk and promotion of social-emotional wellbeing as well as multigenerational pathways to developmental psychopathology. We welcome individuals from a broad range of disciplines and perspectives including developmental psychology, child psychiatry and developmental psychopathology, human development and family studies, public health science, community engaged participatory research, health services, prevention science and implementation science and pediatrics. Those leaders whose work emphasizes a health equity lens across their area of specialization will be prioritized. We strongly encourage people from communities traditionally underrepresented in science to apply including individuals from racial/ethnic minoritized communities and with disabilities.
This joint recruitment is an inaugural leadership role that builds on a longstanding partnership between Lurie Children's CCR and the DevSci Institute. The recruitment reflects their joint objective to conduct transformative research on strategies to improve developmental health equity in communities, with emphasis on ensuring early mental health so that diverse families can thrive during the early childhood period and prevent long-term adverse outcomes.
The candidate will serve as Lurie Children's CCR Research Director and DevSci Associate Director-roles that are highly synergistic. These joint roles are designed to advance the science and practice of community engaged early identification and prevention and novel training paradigms for the "next gen" scientists and leaders. This leader will work closely within CCR to lead and support research developing and studying the effectiveness and implementation of mental health interventions in schools and other community organizations.
Candidates will have the opportunity to mentor graduate students, interns, fellows and postdoctoral fellows via a variety of relevant programs including an NIMH funded "Mental Health, Earlier" postdoctoral T32, the DevSci graduate cluster and a host of Lurie Children's clinical research training programs.
Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging
CCR and DevSci are committed to supporting faculty to work in an increasingly diverse society by promoting equity and justice for all individuals, and actively working to eliminate barriers and obstacles. Equity is critical to their shared mission of advancing excellence in academic programs, research and practice. Both are committed to community-engaged research that addresses inequities and aims to transform health within its ecological context.
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