The Faculty of Medicine of the University of Augsburg is a young medical faculty with two main research areas „Environmental Health Sciences“ (EHS) and „Medical Information Sciences“ (MIS) as well as clinical profile centers in Vascular Medicine, Tumor Medicine and Allergology. Thus, it focuses on an aspiring and future-oriented, internationally attractive and interdisciplinary scientific profile. The undergraduate training pursues a modern, competence-oriented approach with the first model medical programme in Bavaria to secure healthcare in the future. The University of Augsburg has founded a Centre for Climate Resilience in December 2020 with a specific research focus on the scientific basis for holistic and implementable strategies to enable adaptation to the inevitable consequences of climate change at a regional, national and international level. Research projects will be implemented across faculties and between disciplines with the participation of the Faculties of Medicine, Applied Informatics, Economics, Humanities and Social Sciences, Philology and History and Law. Augsburg University Hospital offers almost all medical specialities for the approximately two million inhabitants of the administrative district of Swabia. As the only maximum provider of health care, the university hospital treats a large number of patients with an exceptonally broad spectrum of diseases in the outpatient and inpatient sector. This enables the establishment of structured patient registers and environmentfocused care research with the development of disease-specific early warning systems. The Faculty of Medicine of the University of Augsburg announces a permanent position of a

W3 University professor (m/f/d)
for Global Health

to be filled at the earliest possible date. Associated with the position is the membership in the interdisciplinary Centre for Climate Resilience of the University as well as the expectation of the advancement of the research focus EHS at the Faculty of Medicine. The applicant (m/f/d) should have an outstanding scientific track record on global health issues, preferably with a strong link to climate change, and be able to rely on an effective international network. A focus on the relationship between climate change and associated changes in hosts, pathogens and transmission pathways of infectious diseases transmitted by vectors, water, air or food (response research) is desirable in the future development of the professorship. In addition, socio-economic and demographic impact factors as well as parameters of public health and public health ethics may be part of the profile. Experience in the field of public health is an advantage. The University of Augsburg would like to attract an outstanding and internationally recognized personality with leadership skills who can represent the field of public and global health in medical education and training of other health professions and who is characterized by an independent scientific profile and excellent research achievements in the advertised subject area. The ability and willingness to work in interdisciplinary research networks as well as the ability to acquire competitive third-party funding is a prerequisite. Special commitment and broad experience in modern competence-based teaching are required; proof of a didactic qualification is desirable. Requirements for appointment to the professorship are a completed relevant university degree with reference to public health/global health, e.g. a medical degree or degree in the health professions/health sciences, additional training in global health or public health or many years of scientific expertise in these areas. In addition, pedagogical aptitude, proven teaching experience in the advertised subject area, special aptitude for scientific work, which is usually demonstrated by a doctorate, as well as the habilitation or proof of equivalent scientifically relevant achievements in the advertised subject area which may also have been achieved in the context of a junior professorship or outside academia, are required. An appointment to the civil service may only be made until the age of 52 (Art. 10 Abs. 3 Satz 2 BayHSchPG). Exemptions are only possible in exceptional cases. The University of Augsburg especially welcomes applications from qualified women as it is committed to increasing their representation in the professorial ranks. In case of questions concerning gender equality, please contact the Women’s Representative of the University: https://www.uni-augsburg.de/de/organisation/vertretung/frauenbeauftragte/ In the case of equally qualified candidates, applicants with disabilities will be given preference. Applications with the usual documents (curriculum vitae, description of professional and scientific career and resulting teaching and research concept for the structure of the advertised position, list of publications, list of third-party funding, academic references, doctoral certificate, certificate of medical specialization (if applicable), habilitation certificate, appointment certificates, list of academic courses taught) as well as an applicant form (download at https://www.uni-augsburg.de/de/fakultaet/med/aufbau/berufungen/) must be submitted by June 24th 2022 in electronic form to the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Augsburg, Germany. Please send your application in pdf-format (as one file) to berufung@med.uni-augsburg.de. For additional information in regard to this announcement, please contact Prof. Dr. Martina Kadmon (dekanat@med.uni-augsburg.de). Please note that the authoritative version of this advertisement is the German one, which can be found at the website: https://www.uni-augsburg.de/de/jobs-und-karriere/stellenangebote