Vice Chair of Community Health

Job Summary:

The University of Wisconsin, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health (DFMCH), a leader in Family Medicine research, teaching, and service, is seeking an MD/DO and/or PhD trained health researcher with a successful track record of peer-reviewed publication and grant funding for the position of Vice Chair of Community Health.

The Vice Chair of Community Health will support the DFMCH vision, mission, and strategic priorities. This individual will work with departmental, institutional, and community members to promote health equity through strategic and system-level efforts in community engagement across and beyond the department's clinical, educational, and research arms.

The Vice Chair of Community Health will provide research mentoring to junior faculty and fellows. For those with clinical training, there will be an opportunity to see patients or perform other clinical duties.

The successful candidate will support the five objectives for high-quality primary care as defined by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/implementing-high-quality-primary-care). They are: payment; access; workforce; health information technology; and accountability.

Responsibilities:

The Vice Chair of Community Health will be an integral part of a departmental community health initiative designed to bridge the gap between academic medicine, clinical medicine, the health care delivery system, and the community. Active research focus areas in DFMCH include, but not limited to, community based participatory research, alcohol and/or substance misuse and use disorders, respiratory infections and infectious disease surveillance, integrative health, health disparities research, obesity prevention, interprofessional primary care teams, health care literacy, artificial intelligence in primary care, value-based care and primary care service. The selected candidate will collaborate closely with DFMCH colleagues to develop and submit grant proposals for external funding, oversee grant activities, supervise and participate in data collection and analysis, and examine project results, develop human subjects protocols, collaborate in the preparation and writing of progress reports and publications, and in the presentation of the research project at local, regional, and national meetings. The faculty will be expected to participate in professional, public, and university service and faculty governance appropriate to the faculty rank and carry leadership responsibilities.

The Vice Chair of Community Health may provide consultative support and expertise for statewide DFMCH faculty and stakeholders regarding community research and evaluation methods. There are excellent opportunities to collaborate with a group of health services researchers within the department, across the Madison and the UW System Campuses, the State Department of Health Services, and Wisconsin communities through the Department's Statewide Clinical Campus. This includes opportunity to work with partners in the UW Madison Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (www.ictr.wisc.edu), the Collaborative Center for Health Equity (https://ictr.wisc.edu/cche) and to partner with the Milwaukee Center for Urban and Population Health (http://www.cuph.org/). Extensive resources to support health services research are available through the department and the ICTR Health Innovation Program (www.hip.wisc.edu) as well as the Wisconsin Partnership Program (http://www.med.wisc.edu/wisconsin-partnership- program/main/499).

The Vice Chair of Community Health is responsible for:

Leadership
Provides strategic direction to the DFMCH Office of Community Health (OCH), specifically:
- Dedication to advancing health equity and eliminating health disparities in service to the health of the communities of Wisconsin and beyond.
- Strategic guidance of community-engagement initiatives, research, and evaluation within the field of Family Medicine.
- Securing grants to expand capacity to address priority areas including, but not limited to rural health, LGBTQ+ health, community health worker capacity building, and food/nutrition security.
- Development of fundraising strategies.
- Alignment of DFMCH community-engagement efforts with UW Health Office of Population Health, UW-Madison/SMPH, local and state public health departments, and community partners.
- Building relationships with, and elevating voices of, community health partners (i.e. community members, organizations).
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