Visiting Faculty, IHP Health

Reports to:

Program Director, IHP Health and Community

Salary Range: $28,000 - $32,000 (salary commensurate with experience)

Travel insurance provided.

Anticipated

Start Date:

July 6, 2026

Term of Employment: approximately 5-6 months

Apply by:
March 1, 2026

Base of Designation/Remote Eligible:
Travel to Washington, DC (USA), India, South Africa, and Argentina required.

Conditional on Enrollment

School for International Training (SIT) seeks a Visiting Faculty member to join an interdisciplinary team of faculty and country coordinators leading IHP's Health and Community:
Globalization, Culture, and Care program in Fall 2026
. Each semester term enrolls approximately 15-30 students from leading U.S. colleges and universities for interdisciplinary study and a global comparative perspective in four different program locations. The Visiting Faculty travels with students to each location for the full duration of the semester. Please note that the following itinerary reflects past semesters and tentative future semesters, but all itineraries are contingent on conditions in each country and program needs:
Fall 2026 (late August to mid-December):
Washington, DC (USA), India, South Africa, and Argentina
.

IHP health and community: globalization, culture, & care

IHP Health and Community is a semester-long, global comparative study abroad program for undergraduate students. The program is founded on a concept of health as a product of myriad interrelated determinants from the molecular to the global levels. Health, disease, illness, and wellbeing are seen not only as the outcomes of specific pathogens, toxins, or behavioral factors, but influenced by and acted upon through social relationships, cultural practices and attitudes, political institutions, ecological and economic forces.

Thus, we also focus on the role of community in achieving health. Only when considered within this complex web of interrelated factors can we understand the ways health is distributed and experienced within local communities and across regions of the world. The Health and Community curriculum pays special attention to health disparities across the Global South and Global North, as well as a focus on community-driven health initiatives and the role of community in wellbeing.

More information about IHP and the IHP Health and Community program (including draft syllabi, itineraries, etc.) is available through our website: IHP Health and Community:
Globalization, Culture, and Care

Please click on Apply above or visit  to submit your application via the online system by uploading the following required items: letter of interest and CV (including the contact information of three academic references). Your letter of interest should address the questions listed further below.

• Facilitate learning and teach two courses:
  • Health, Culture, and Community (an introductory course based in medical anthropology)
  • Community Health Research Methods and Ethics (an introductory research methods class that highlights methods used in public health fieldwork; this course is taught in collaboration with local country staff)
  • See IHP Health and Community:
    Globalization, Culture, & Care for details.
• Facilitate student learning through briefings, debriefings, and processing of non-lecture program components.
• Provide timely feedback on assignments.
• Participate in all country program activities including guest speakers, site visits, and other non-lecture components.
• Work with the Provost's Office, Program Director, and Country Coordinators, to ensure that any academic, administrative and student problems associated with the program are resolved.
• Take appropriate measures to protect the health and safety of students in partnership with SIT Student Affairs and local staff.
• Visiting Faculty are responsible for ensuring that all students travelling on the official group flight are checked‑in and through immigration.
• Collect all receipts for all expenses incurred and complete expense reports in a timely manner according to World Learning financial policies and guidelines.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Terminal degree (PhD or equivalent; All But…