A Search for Excellence

The Ohio State University has a strategic plan to invest in excellence.  Faculty members from six colleges have won a competitive award of $4.7 million to implement a plan in Public Health Preparedness for Infectious Disease (PHPID).  We will hire up to 12 key faculty members in priority areas.  We are pleased to announce the first wave of faculty search teams in these important areas:

Assistant or Associate Professor of Food Safety, Food Science and Technology Department, Columbus, Ohio.  Emphasis is on virology or microbiological food safety.  Search chair:  Dr. Ahmed Yousef, yousef.1@osu.edu

Assistant or Associate Professor of Immunology, Food Animal Health Research Program, Wooster Ohio. Emphasis is on mucosal immunology applicable to preharvest food safety.  Search chair:  Dr. Jeffrey LeJeune, lejeune.3@osu.edu

Assistant or Associate Professor of Environmental Microbiology, Environmental Health Sciences, College of Public Health, Columbus, Ohio.  Emphasis is on environmental microbiology as it relates to public health.  Search chair:  Dr. Tim Buckley, tbuckley@cph.osu.edu

Associate Professor, Host-Pathogen Interactions, Center for Microbial Interface Biology and the Department of Microbiology, Columbus, Ohio.  A tenure-track faculty position. The successful candidate will establish an independent research program focused on microbial pathogenesis, the host response to microbes, or experimental therapeutics and vaccines. Search committee: cmib.search@osumc.edu

Assistant Professor, Epidemiology, Division of Epidemiology, College of Public Health and Division of Infectious Diseases, College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio. A tenure-track faculty position. The successful candidate will establish an independent research program focused on infectious diseases epidemiology. Search committee chair: Dr. Kurt Stevenson, Stevenson.185@osu.edu

Assistant, Associate or Full Professor in the Pharmacy Practice and Administration Division. Primary consideration will be given to candidates with interest in infectious disease. Milap C. Nahata, MS, PharmD, Pharmacy Practice and Administration
OSU College of Pharmacy nahata.1@osu.edu

Please click the title for more information or contact the respective search chair directly.  Thank you for your interest.

Ohio State was named among the best places to work in academia, according to a survey released in the October 2006 issue of The Scientist magazine. In the fourth year of the survey, the university was ranked third among all colleges and universities. Ohio State followed St. Jude Research Hospital and the J. David Gladstone Institute, who were first and second, respectively.

last update June 15, 2007 by Ken Lee