The Colorado School of Public Health (CSPH) is accepting applications and nominations for the position of Department Chair for the Department of Biostatistics and Informatics (BIOS). This is a 12-month, tenure-track Full Professor appointment with the primary academic appointment to be held at the University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus. The Department of Biostatistics and Informatics is one of five departments within the CSPH at the Anschutz Medical Campus. The BIOS Department offers two Graduate degrees (MS and PhD), one Professional degree (MPH in Applied Biostatistics), and two certificates in Applied Biostatistics and Health Analytics & Data Science. The department also houses the Center for Innovative Design & Analysis (CIDA), which supports biostatistics and informatics across the Anschutz Medical Campus. The BIOS Department Chair leads the department and is part of the School’s management and leadership decision-making group.
The Department’s mission includes delivering high-quality education, fostering innovative, collaborative, and ethical scientific research, and interacting with community and government partners to promote public health surveillance and evaluation strategies. The Department conducts cutting-edge methodological research and offers training in biostatistics, bioinformatics, data science, and public health informatics. The Department develops innovative methodologies to advance public health science, knowledge, practice, and outcomes. Now in its 16th year, the department has a strong faculty, a cohesive and supportive environment, and an established and respected presence on the Anschutz Medical Campus. It has a tradition of recruiting outstanding junior faculty.
A crucial responsibility of the Chair is development of effective collaborations between departmental faculty and students, with faculty and researchers in the partner institutions, School of Medicine faculty and with many public and community health research partners in the region.
Key Responsibilities:
The incumbent will be responsible for leading, planning, managing, and implementing the academic, research, and service programs of the Department. They will work with the Director of CIDA to coordinate recruitment activities for the center and foster collaborations within the department and with partner institutions on the Anschutz Medical Campus and externally.
A suitable candidate will be a leader and scholar in any of the department’s core disciplines and dedicated to continuing to build and promote strong and effective relationships within an academic health sciences center. The incumbent will be committed to expanding and enriching the department’s educational, research and public health activities in the current dynamic environment, including embracing new technology, genetic and other -omic discoveries, big data and artificial intelligence applications in public health and medicine.
The BIOS Department Chair is a schoolwide leader and works with the dean on academic and strategic matters at the school and campus levels. Responsibilities include implementing, maintaining, and assuring the high quality of its academic initiatives, conducting annual reviews of its entire academic faculty, and making recommendations for faculty and staff promotions. Additionally, the Department Chair leads and annually updates the department’s five-year Strategic Plan and manages the department’s finances related to faculty salaries, promotion, teaching, administration, collaborations, and central administration costs.
Supervision Received
The Chair reports to the Dean of the Colorado School of Public Health.
Supervision Exercised
The Chair oversees and participates in evaluating more than 20 department faculty and staff serving the department’s academic and research programs.
Examples of Work Performed
We seek a Chair who will:
- Provide innovative and collaborative leadership.
- Implement and improve the department’s research, degree programs, and curricula.
- Actively pursue external funding.
- Foster collaborations, including team science, with academic public health and medicine, which include basic and translational sciences programs on the campus.
- Teach in areas of expertise.
- Recruit, mentor, and retain faculty and students.
- Provide leadership and foster program development in research in biostatistics and informatics.
- Work to enhance the reputation and achieve the overall vision of the school, the department, and its partner Universities.
Applications will be accepted until finalists are identified, but preference will be given to complete applications received by April 15, 2025. Those not applying by this date may or may not be considered
