Professor of Public Health and Health Data Science

About Us

The School of Life Course & Population Sciences is one of six Schools that make up the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine at King’s College London. The School unites over 400 experts in women and children’s health, nutritional sciences, population health and the molecular genetics of human disease. Our research links the causes of common health problems to life’s landmark stages, treating life, disease and healthcare as a continuum. We are interdisciplinary by nature and this innovative approach works: 91 per cent of our research submitted to the Subjects Allied to Medicine (Pharmacy, Nutritional Sciences and Women's Health cluster) for REF was rated as world-leading or internationally excellent. We use this expertise to teach the next generation of health professionals and research scientists. Based across King’s Denmark Hill, Guy’s, St Thomas’ and Waterloo campuses, our academic programme of teaching, research and clinical practice is embedded across five Departments.

More information:  https://www.kcl.ac.uk/slcps

About the role

We are seeking an exceptional academic leader in Health Data Science and Public Health to join the  School of Life Course & Population Sciences at King’s College London. The post-holder will lead a vibrant research and education team and work amongst others closely with King’s Health Partners leveraging major opportunities and tackling challenges of the health system in Southeast London.

Candidates must demonstrate excellence in conducting innovative and compelling research, and they should have a proven track record of successfully attracting funding, as well as the ambition and potential to secure significant research funding.

The successful applicant for this post is a scientist or clinician scientist who will undertake research in health disparities and develop a wider portfolio around digital technologies and real-world evidence. School topics of interest include but are not limited to improving population health, learning health systems, proactive prevention, long term conditions and multimorbidity, integration of care and digital transformation, nutrition, ageing, women’s and children’s health.

This is a full time (35 hours per week), and you will be offered an indefinite contract.

About You

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

• Professional registration at public health specialist level with either the GMC register, the UK Public Health Register or other specialist register as appropriate 
• PhD, MD, or equivalent qualification in Health Informatics or related discipline 
• Proven ability to attract programmatic research funding and evidence of grant applications over the past 3 years 
• Substantive portfolio of internationally recognised research in Public Health or Digital Health 
• Evidence of academic leadership and strategic contributions 
• Sufficient PI and/or Co-I grant income with a percentage of salary recovery over the last 5 years to support a team of 3-5 research staff 
• Significant experience of high-quality and innovative teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level 
• Substantive esteem indicators such as routinely invited to speak at international meetings, chair and organiser of national/international meetings, chairing and serving on professional and scientific grant committees and Editorial Boards 
• A track record of supervising PhD students to completion and post-doctoral mentorship 

Desirable criteria

• Experience of teaching Public Health and Health Data Science 
• Membership or eligibility for either membership or fellowship membership with the Faculty of Public Health 

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