Department: Mental Health

Assistant Professor or Associate Professor

The Department of Mental Health of the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health is expanding its search for an individual for a tenure-track position at the level of Assistant or Associate Professor. The Department consists of 20 full-time faculty from diverse disciplines and about 75 research fellows and students. Our mission is to advance understanding of the occurrence, causes, and consequences of alcohol, drug, and mental disorders, in order to improve health in the general population, and to prevent and control these disorders and their associated impairments, disabilities, and handicaps. Department faculty conduct a range of research in a multi-disciplinary environment, collaborating with other departments in the Bloomberg School, with the Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Pediatrics in the School of Medicine, and with a number of local and State agencies.

The Department seeks a candidate with interest, experience and ability in genetics, epigenetics, the psychobiology of mental disorders, and/or the relationship of psychiatric to medical disorders. The Department has conducted interviews and maintains relationships with several large population-based cohorts from which it has received blood and DNA, and the resulting two-decades-long longitudinal datasets offer unusual advantages in understanding the neurodevelopmental genetics of mental and behavioral disorders. The candidate would join the leadership team for these collaborations. Applicants should have the M.D. degree or a doctoral degree in genetics, epidemiology, psychology, sociology, social work, or a related discipline. Faculty are expected to teach and to develop externally-funded research. Successful candidates will have a strong publication record or an exceptional potential to publish. Faculty may become affiliated with the Department’s recently created Center for Mental Health Initiatives.

Application reviews will begin in the fall of 2009 and will continue until the position is filled. Interested candidates should send a letter describing research and teaching interests, names and addresses of potential references, and a Curriculum Vita, to:
William W. Eaton, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Department of Mental Health
Bloomberg School of Public Health
624 North Broadway, Suite 850
Baltimore, MD 21205
weaton@jhsph.edu

Applicants should send a statement of interest, curriculum vitae and names of three references to:

William W. Eaton, PhD, Professor and Chair
Department of Mental Health
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
624 North Broadway, Hampton House 850
Baltimore, MD 21205 USA


Email: weaton@jhsph.edu

Links of interest for this position:
http://www.jhsph.edu/dept/mh