Associate Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences

Overview

The University of Southern California (USC), founded in 1880, is the largest private employer in the City of Los Angeles. As an employee of USC, you will be a part of a world-class research university and a member of the "Trojan Family," which is comprised of the faculty, students and staff that make the university what it is.

The Department of Population and Public Health Sciences at the University of Southern California invites applications for a talented candidate at any level (tenure or tenure track; assistant, associate, or full professor) in the Environmental Health Division of the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences to expand a productive research program on environmental determinants of human disease and become a future leader in a defined field of Environmental Health Sciences.

This new position seeks to enhance and foster current and future research, with a proposed start date of Spring/Summer/Fall 2026.

The successful candidate will develop and lead an independent, externally funded research program in Environmental Health Sciences, with a strong emphasis on environmental epidemiology, chemical exposures, and human health outcomes. The position is well suited for candidates with expertise in endocrine-disrupting chemicals, chemical mixtures, reproductive and cardiometabolic health, and life-course approaches to disease etiology, and who are positioned to become leaders in their field.

Applicants with demonstrated expertise in one or more of the following areas are encouraged to apply:

• Assessment of environmental chemical exposures (e.g., endocrine-disrupting chemicals, pesticides, flame retardants, PFAS) and their impacts on human health across the reproductive and life course
• Environmental epidemiology of reproductive, perinatal, pediatric, and long-term health outcomes
• Chemical mixtures and exposome approaches, including advanced statistical and computational methods
• Integration of biomarkers, including epigenetic, metabolomic, and other molecular measures, to elucidate biological mechanisms
• Translation of environmental health research to public health relevance, risk assessment, and policy

• Doctoral degree (PhD, ScD, or equivalent) in Epidemiology, Environmental Health, Public Health, or related biomedical or physical sciences
• Postdoctoral training or equivalent experience
• Strong publication record in high-impact, peer-reviewed journals commensurate with career stage
• Demonstrated success or clear potential to secure NIH or other extramural funding
• Experience working with large prospective cohort studies and interdisciplinary research teams
• Commitment to mentorship, teaching, and collaborative team science

The successful faculty candidate is expected to bring in or develop an externally funded research program after an appropriate transitional period. Multi-year startup funding will be provided through institutional support and NIH research grants.

A demonstrative strength of the Keck School of Medicine is the existence of several research efforts oriented towards etiologic, intervention, population-based, and basic science research on understanding environmental impacts of multi-pollutant exposures to human health outcomes across the life course, with a special focus in early-life, childhood, and later-life impacts. The department has a world-renown research group in environmental epidemiology and biostatistics, with an active and well-funded program in environmental health effects research and a growing interest in novel approaches to disentangling multi-pollutant exposure contributions to environmental health impacts on multiple organ systems of interest.

The department has diverse expertise in environmental respiratory, neurological, cardiovascular, metabolic and cancer epidemiology and in methodological research on environmental and genetic epidemiology. A dynamic group of investigators in the NIH-funded Southern California Environmental Health Sciences Center, Southern California Superfund Research and Training Program for PFAS Assessment, Remediation, and the Center for Translational Exposomics Research offer…