Posting Summary
The Brain Health Institute BHI ; brainhealthinstitute.rutgers) and Rutgers Addiction Research Center RARC ; addiction.rutgers) are recruiting a tenured or tenure track faculty member at the Assistant/Associate/Professor level to expand our research program in public policy implications of addiction. The RARC is an initiative of the Brain Health Institute and is a translational research center that brings together researchers from across the Rutgers campuses medical schools and health systems for collaborative interdisciplinary work focused on tackling addiction. With over 150 faculty who work across the domains of Epidemiology Etiology & Prevention; Basic Science; Treatment & Recovery; and Public Policy the RARC is the only comprehensive addiction center in New Jersey. The RARC creates opportunities for collaboration and community bringing together faculty with a passion for innovative crossdisciplinary research who are employing cutting edge approaches to studying substance misuse and addiction. The RARCs Public Policy domain is especially interested in expanding expertise in cutting edge and newly evolving areas in addictive behaviors such as compulsive sexual behavior binge eating and hoarding disorder as well as in the substancebased addiction areas of cannabis and psychedelic research and policy.
Overview
The successful candidate must have a PhD MD or equivalent doctoral degree and a research program with currently active federal funding that addresses key public policy questions related to substancebased and/or behavioral addictions. Senior candidates will be considered for an Associate Director role in the RARC a leadership position overseeing the growth of targeted research areas within the RARC . We strongly encourage applications from underrepresented minority candidates. The RARCs Public Policy domain is especially interested in expanding expertise in cutting edge and newly evolving areas in addictive behaviors such as compulsive sexual behavior binge eating and hoarding disorder as well as in the substancebased addiction areas of cannabis and psychedelic research and policy.