Assistant/Associate Professor in One Health

About the Role

Purdue University is seeking multiple tenured or tenure-track faculty members as part of a strategic recruitment initiative focused on Healthy and Resilient Living Systems. This initiative aims to advance Purdue's One Health initiative, tackling complex challenges at the intersection of human, animal, and plant health. The positions are within the Departments of Psychological Sciences and Public Health in the College of Health and Human Sciences.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish a vigorous, externally funded research program.
• Contribute to the education and mentoring of graduate and undergraduate students.
• Teach undergraduate and/or graduate level courses.
• Collaborate across disciplines to solve complex global One Health challenges.

Areas of Interest

• Department of Psychological Sciences:

• Interplay between nutritional health and environmental factors, stress, and metabolism.

• Environmental contaminants and their effects on brain function and mental health.

• Sustainable work systems, worker health and safety, and organizational resilience.

• Research contributing to Behavioral Neuroscience, Industrial-Organizational, and Clinical Psychology.

• Candidates' research should address behavior, brain function, or mental health.

• Department of Public Health:

• Collaborative interdisciplinary approaches to improving health at the intersection of human, animal, plant, and environmental health.

• Social determinants of health, health inequities, disease prevention, epidemiology, biostatistics, nutrition, and community-engaged interventions.

• Emerging infectious diseases and One Health epidemiology.

• Environmental and climate health.

• Food systems, nutrition, and population health.

• Rural and community health resilience.

• Artificial intelligence, data science, and population health.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• A record of research excellence and productivity commensurate with rank.
• Demonstrated potential or record of interdisciplinary collaboration and impactful scholarship.
• Commitment to teaching and student mentorship.

Qualifications

• For Psychological Sciences:
• PhD or other appropriate doctoral degree in psychology (including behavioral neuroscience, clinical psychology, or industrial-organizational psychology), neuroscience, biopsychology, physiology, endocrinology, nutritional sciences, toxicology, organizational behavior, or a related discipline.
• For Public Health:
• PhD or other appropriate doctoral degree in psychology, neuroscience, public health, epidemiology, community health, environmental health sciences, One Health, nutritional sciences, health sciences, health services research, biostatistics, or a related discipline.

Application Process

Submit a cover letter, CV, research statement, teaching statement, and contact information for at least three references.

Review of applications will begin on November 5, 2026 and continue until positions are filled.

A background check is required.