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Job Description
Tenured/Tenure-Track:
Open Rank Texas A&M University - 4.3 College Station, TX Job Details Full-time | Tenured | Tenure track 22 hours ago Qualifications Health sciences research Faculty mentoring Strategic management Grant funding research Academic research projects Student mentoring Faculty collaboration Bachelor of Science Working with graduate students Healthcare Administration Academic institution experience Advising graduate students Patient safety Healthcare Management Collaborative research Public Health Quality improvement Healthcare financial management Journal articles Colleges/universities Higher education teaching Senior level Teaching Management Training delivery Full Job Description Description The Department of Health Policy and Management in the School of Public Health at Texas A&M University invites applications for one full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty position in Health Management. Applicants will be considered for the faculty title of Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor. Faculty rank and salary are commensurate with eduation and experience. We seek a dynamic scholar committed to excellence in research, teaching, and service in the field of healthcare management. The successful candidate will work with multidisciplinary academic teams to teach courses in health management, health administration, and health services research, provide mentoring for masters and doctoral students, and contribute to health management scholarship. The Department is particularly interested in applicants with training and demonstrated research on health management topics such as strategic management in healthcare, quality improvement and patient safety, implementation science, decision science, organizational behavior, healthcare finance, health systems management, and healthcare administration. Faculty enjoy fully-funded 9-month appointments with research (50%), teaching (40%) and service (10%) responsibilities. The standard teaching load is four classes a year, with options for reduced teaching loads and/or additional (Summer) salary for well-funded researchers. This appointment is scheduled to start August 1st, 2026, though the formal start date is negotiable. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. Successful applicants are expected to conduct independent and collaborative research, obtain extramural funding, maintain a robust publication record, and contribute to the Department's educational initiatives. Candidates at the associate professor level or higher should have an established record of independent funding and an enthusiasm for mentoring junior faculty. About the
Department of Health Policy & Management:
The Department has 14 tenured and tenure track faculty, 5 academic professional track faculty, and 3 professors of practice. It is home to more than 120 graduate students. Our Master of Health Administration (MHA) program is ranked as one of the top graduate health administration programs in the nation by the U.S. News & World Report and has been continuously accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education (CAHME) since 2008. The MHA program offers both a residential and an executive track. The department additionally offers a PhD in Health Services Research and a Master of Public Health degree with a concentration in Health Policy & Management. Furthermore, Department faculty teach in the School of Public Health's Bachelor of Science in Public Health generalist degree program, which has more than 2000 majors. The Department has a commitment to scholarly inquiry in a broad spectrum of areas. Research, scholarship, and creative activities in the department represent a wide array of disciplines, expertise, and interests. The Department's faculty have backgrounds in data science, economics, health services research, public health, political science, law, and management science and are highly collaborative with substantial research strengths across a variety of areas, including health care access and delivery infrastructures, quality of health care services, chronic disease burden, maternal and child health, rural health and data privacy. The School of Public Health is the only unit within Texas A&M Health holding qualifications and membership in the Hispanic-Serving Health Professions Schools.
Additional Information:
Located in College Station, Texas on the flagship campus of the Texas A&M University System, the CEPH-accredited School of Public Health has more than 95 faculty in four departments. Texas A&M University, a land-, sea-, and space-grant institution was the state's first public institution of higher learning, is a member of the prestigious Association of American Universities (AAU) and boasts world-class resources available to all faculty.
