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something she could do with small children. She started teaching epidemiology at a local medical school. It took her a bit longer to graduate but she did and continued teaching, taking on more and more classes and publishing her thesis papers. When a full-time faculty position opened up where she had been teaching, she was an obvious candidate and landed the job. Final Comments Werler asked the graduates what advice they would offer. They all pointed to taking a breadth of methods courses and gaining as much research experience as possible to gain as many concrete skills as possible. Even when concentrating on a narrow content area within epidemiology– like the individual who works today in
the lab where he started post-masters degree – knowing many different statistical techniques and having conducted different types of epidemiologic studies is helpful. Choosing classes with this in mind is one recommendation. Another is to include different epidemiology designs and statistical methods in your theses. At BU the thesis is in the form of three separate studies, so it is easier to achieve this variety. But even if your thesis project is one large project, you could build into different sub-studies and analyses to beef up these concrete skills, according to Werler. All of the graduates kept their eyes open for different kinds of job opportunities and have landed, at least for now, where they didn’t quite expect when starting out. â–
Tenure Track Faculty Position Biostatistics Dept . of Biostatistics and Epidemiology is recruiting full-time tenure-track biostatistics faculty position at Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor level. MPH (Biostatistics and Epidemiology) and DrPH (Epidemiology) are offered. Faculty research interests include chronic disease epidemiology, including cancer and cardiovascular disease, perinatal and pediatric epidemiology, genetic epidemiology, multiple behavioral risk factors, health disparities, maternal and child health, gender-based violence, biostatistical methods, statistical genetics, and statistical methodology and modeling for public health diseases. Applicants must possess at time of employment one of the following: 1) doctoral degree in biostatistics or 2) doctoral degree in an biostatistics-related field and at least three years of substantial biostatistics professional or research experience. A candidate must have a record of peer-reviewed scholarship. A successful candidate is expected to obtain competitive extramural funding. Teaching and mentorship of students is required. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. ETSU is a public university with CEPH-accredited College of Public Health and Colleges of Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing, and Clinical and Rehabilitative Health Sciences. College website is at: http://www.etsu.edu/cph
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Applicants must submit online ETSU Employment Application at eJobs, https://jobs.etsu.edu/ AA/EOE. Contact Human Resources about process at (423) 4395890 or Rickie Carter about position at carterrh@etsu.edu. Search Committee Chair Dr. Xuefeng Liu, ETSU Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Box 70259, Johnson City, TN 37614-1709