Research Assistant Professor

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Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of North Carolinians and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education and research.

Patient care: We promote health and provide superb clinical care while maintaining our strong tradition of reaching underserved populations and reducing health disparities across North Carolina and beyond.

Education: We prepare tomorrow's healthcare professionals and biomedical researchers from all backgrounds by facilitating learning within innovative and integrated curricula and team-oriented interprofessional education to ensure a highly skilled workforce.

Research: We develop and support a rich array of outstanding health sciences research programs, centers and resources. We provide infrastructure and opportunities for collaboration among disciplines throughout and beyond our university to support outstanding research. We foster programs in the areas of basic, translational, mechanistic and population research.

The UNC Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology seeks to recruit an epidemiologist or biostatistician at the Assistant Professor level to support department-wide research efforts. The successful candidate will play a critical role in the development and coordination of activities to support study design, data analysis, results dissemination, and grant preparation. They will report directly to the department's Vice Chair of Research and Innovation.

Responsibilities will include consultative services for faculty and learners; statistical analysis and support for individual research projects; planning and coordination of research training activities for learners (including research curriculum, project development, and presentation); contribution to grant development, including study design, statistical analysis sections and power calculations; research mentorship of residents and fellows; and strategic planning for new department-wide initiatives. As the unit expands, they may be additional responsibilities in the supervision of junior analysts and students.

Alongside these departmental roles, the successful candidate will be encouraged to develop their own research portfolio either in the role of principal investigator or co-investigator supported by external sources. Given the rich research environment within the department, we envision ample opportunities for such engagement. For those already working in such capacities as part of ongoing research there is flexibility to continue in existing roles.

The UNC Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology is a national leader in translational, clinical, and population research. We are consistently ranked among the top 10 in NIH funding among peer departments nationwide (including #6 in 2025) and our work addresses the most pressing issues in the US and abroad. Our faculty are nationally and internationally recognized for their work across a broad range of subspecialties.

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