This is a great opportunity to work in an expanding research group including my collaborator Jennifer Hill. We’re working on a bunch of interesting projects and it would be great if this job could be filled with someone with innovative statistical ideas and broad applied interests.

Here’s a description:

The NYU Steinhardt School seeks an applied statistician with an active program of research in one or more of the following areas: public health, health policy, behavior/prevention research, human development, and health psychology/behavioral medicine. Specialty areas that are of particular interest to the departments include: (1) epidemiological network modeling; (2) latent class models and clustering; (3) longitudinal data analysis, including survival analysis; (4) randomized experiments and quasi-experiments; (5) spatio-temporal modeling.

Responsibilities: The successful candidate would join a growing applied statistics center to foster cross-disciplinary collaborative research throughout New York University and would play a key role in providing methods training for NYU’s two Master’s programs in Global and Community Public Health (the Global program is described here: www.nyu.edu/mph). He/she should be prepared to teach introductory and more advanced Biostatistics courses that cover topics such as categorical data analysis, non-parametrics, repeated measures, and research design.

Qualifications: Applicants should have a keen interest in both developing/evaluating new quantitative research methods as well as applying methods in collaborative work with faculty and graduate students in areas represented by the public health, allied health, and related policy-focused departments and programs in the School. He/she must have strong communication skills as a classroom teacher and as a presenter of research findings to others who are not as well-versed in his/her field of research.

Please send a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, three samples of scholarly writing, and three letters of recommendation to Professor Marc Scott, Search Chair, Department of Humanities and the Social Sciences, New York University, 246 Greene Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10003. Review of applications will begin December 10, 2008, and will continue until the position is filled.

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

STEINHARDT SCHOOL OF CULTURE, EDUCATION, AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

Department of Humanities and the Social Sciences

Open Rank, Tenure-Track

Applied Statistician: Health Outcomes and Related Policy