Chair, Department of Health Policy and Health Services Administration

The University of Texas School of Public Health San Antonio

a collaborative school of public health of

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio &

The University of Texas at San Antonio

San Antonio, Texas

The University of Texas School of Public Health San Antonio seeks the founding chair for the Department of Health Policy and Health Services Administration. The School of Public Health is a new collaboration between The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA)—two federally designated Hispanic-serving institutions. The School will educate leaders passionate about addressing public health issues, advancing vital public-health-focused research and scholarship, and strengthening community partnerships across the San Antonio and South Texas regions.

The Health Policy and Health Services Administration Department will have scholars with interests spanning a broad range of issues in health policy: access to and disparities in health care; the economics of health care; health insurance and health care financing; global health; health systems administration at federal, state, county and city levels; health policy that addresses health equity, the needs of an aging population and that of under-represented groups infant and children’s health; women’s health; and Hispanic health. Disciplines within the department can include but are not limited to the fields of health economics, health care management, health services administration and health policy.

As an inaugural leader, the chair will work as a strategic thought partner with, and report to, the School’s founding dean, Vasan Ramachandran, MD. They will join the School of Public Health’s foundational team—which now includes the new inaugural chairs for the Departments of Environmental and Occupational Health and Quantitative and Qualitative Health Sciences—and will have the unique opportunity to build their department and lead its future development. This foundational team will collaborate with the dean and align their visions to build a school of public health that is a regional steward of human and planetary health and well-being to eliminate health inequities through excellence in research, instruction and community engagement.

UT Health San Antonio and UTSA have retained Isaacson, Miller, a national executive search firm, to assist with these searches. Amy Segal is leading this search with Haley Burrowes, Amy Gillespie and Olivia McVicker. Please submit inquiries, nominations and applications (including a letter of interest and CV or resumé) via: https://www.imsearch.com/open-searches/university-texas-school-public-health-san-antonio/chair-department-health-policy-and

UT Health San Antonio and The University of Texas San Antonio are equal opportunity employers and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local laws, unless such distinction is required by law.

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