Chair, Department of Implementation Science

The client is seeking a dynamic academic leader to serve as Chair of the Department of Implementation Science within the Division of Public Health Sciences. The Chair will provide visible, inspiring, and strategic leadership and direction for the department’s research and educational activities, including building and expanding all aspects of the department. The role will involve developing a shared departmental vision and leveraging the talents of a diverse group of faculty and staff as the organization continues to grow. The department focuses on accelerating the adoption, integration, and sustainability of evidence-based practices in real-world settings to improve population health. Its scientific work is organized around health services research to address care delivery gaps, intervention optimization to identify efficacious and practical approaches, and implementation and dissemination strategy testing to translate evidence into clinical and population health practice more efficiently. The department includes faculty, staff, and postdoctoral fellows with methodological expertise across pragmatic, hybrid, and adaptive trial designs; contextual and community-engaged research; program evaluation; cost-effectiveness and cost-of-implementation analyses; and the application of implementation science theories, models, and frameworks. The successful candidate will demonstrate national academic stature and proven leadership and management skills to guide the department’s next phase. This includes a commitment to fostering an academic culture grounded in fairness to the communities served and providing a just, equitable, diverse, and inclusive environment for all members, trainees, and affiliates. Qualifications include a terminal degree in health policy, sociology, psychology, public health, implementation science, or a related field, along with an established record as an active research investigator with academic productivity and scholarship in implementation science sufficient for appointment at the tenured Associate Professor or Professor rank (strongly preferred). The Chair is expected to advance a forward-looking vision in areas such as academic learning health systems, pragmatic clinical trials, patient-centered outcomes, embedded research, and real-world application.