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The UF College of Public Health and Health Professions is focused on preserving, promoting, and improving the health and well-being of populations and individuals. The College is accredited as a school of public health by the Council on Education for Public Health. Since 2022, the College’s educational portfolio has expanded to 27 academic programs of study, including bachelor's, master's, PhD, and professional doctoral degrees, supplemented by a growing slate of minors and certificates. The student body has grown to nearly 3,000 undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral students, supported by over 180 faculty members.

The College is organized into eight departments: biostatistics; clinical and health psychology; environmental and global health; epidemiology; health services research, management, and policy; occupational therapy; physical therapy; and speech, language, and hearing sciences. It is also home to a deep portfolio of federally funded T32 training grants, focused on breathing research and therapeutics, movement disorders and neurorestoration, rehabilitation and neuromuscular plasticity, substance abuse, and team-based interdisciplinary cancer research, among other areas.

The College has an annual budget of over $100 million, with 46 percent coming from sponsored awards, 21 percent from state appropriations, 20 percent from tuition, six percent from clinical services, and seven percent from other sources.

The College offers a diverse variety of degree programs as well as several certificate programs. By combining the population perspective of public health with the patient focus of health professions disciplines, the continuum of care is covered from prevention and treatment to rehabilitation that supports the health and well‑being of communities and individuals.

• Eight graduate programs ranked in the Top 20 among public universities
• Near 100 percent undergraduate graduation rate, and top‑tier graduate and professional outcomes, including: licensure pass rates of 100 percent (OTD), 98.7 percent (PT), 100 percent (CHP), and 95/91 percent (SLP/AuD); and job/placement rates of 100 percent in MHA, OTD, PT, and CHP

Research funding in the College remains a defining strength, with faculty members working in Florida, nationally, and abroad on diverse topics such as dementia, sports concussions, suicidal ideation, violence and addiction, obesity, muscular dystrophy, driving safety, infectious diseases, agricultural and landscape worker health and safety, AI applications for pediatric neuro‑medicine, global food safety, and aging in place. College faculty produce research that has had real‑world impact on patients and populations, with recent examples ranging from contributions to clinical trials slowing the progression of Duchenne muscular dystrophy to COVID‑related modeling and transmission studies.

• Top-10 in NIH funding among schools of public health at public universities
• An overall Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research ranking of 11th among public schools of public health
• $46.1 million in total research awards and $44.6 million in total research expenditures in FY25
• 270 grants led by college faculty, and overall faculty involvement in 547 grants worth over $300 million

The College provides clinical, professional, and community service at the local, national, and international levels. The department of clinical and health psychology provides psychological services for the entire academic health center and UF Health Physicians practices. Students in physical therapy, occupational therapy, and clinical and health psychology offer pro‑bono services through equal access clinics, providing care for local residents who are uninsured or underinsured. Service projects are integrated into the College’s academic programs at the community level and internationally, including a model that incorporates education and research efforts to improve the lives of people in other countries, including Burkina Faso, China, Ethiopia, Haiti, India, Mexico, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Rwanda, and Uganda.

• Three equal access clinics
• 15,500 patient contacts by clinical and health psychology faculty and trainees
• More than 15,400 UF HealthStreet community members, with 7,500+ members navigated to research opportunities and 3,000+ enrolled in research studies to date

The Dean is the chief academic and administrative leader of the College, and works collaboratively with faculty, staff, and students to advance the College’s mission areas. The Dean is responsible for all matters related to the administration of the College, including academic programs, faculty, students, staff, facilities, budget, alumni relations, fundraising, and coordination and collaboration with other academic and operating units of UF and UF Health.

• Maintain and enhance the stature of the College by ensuring that it continues to be at the forefront of research and in educating students who are prepared to be outstanding practitioners and leaders in public health and the health professions. Maintain high standards in faculty recruitment, appointment, promotion, and tenure in order to support excellence in research, teaching, and clinical practice in the professions supported by the College. Serve as a catalyst and advocate for innovative and impactful research. In collaboration with other UF and UF Health entities, create and implement exceptional and innovative programs of education, research, clinical practice, and service. Foster a student‑centered culture that enhances effective teaching, engages students in faculty research, maintains a diverse and inclusive learning environment, builds strong relationships between students, faculty, staff, and alumni, and promotes leadership development. Maintain and enhance the financial health of the College through active representation with applicable state of Florida entities and raise the College’s visibility and obtain financial and other types of support from individuals, foundations, and corporations for initiatives, programmatic efforts, research, public service, faculty and student projects, student support, and discretionary activities.

• Develop, in partnership with others and in alignment with the University, a forward‑looking strategic plan for the College. Grow the research output of the College and strengthen engagement with University of Florida and UF Health research elements. Enhance educational programs to continue to achieve exceptional learning. Enhance the College’s national reputation by growing and strengthening the research, clinical, and service enterprises. Attract top faculty and staff to further elevate the quality of the College, and ensure best‑in‑class hiring, retention, development, and engagement practices.

The Dean, College of Public Health and Health Professions will be a proven academic leader with demonstrated ability to engage with faculty and staff to develop and execute a vision in support of the College’s broad educational, research, clinical, and public service missions.

• Progressive executive management experience in a leading academic or multidisciplinary institution affiliated with public health and/or health professions. Demonstrated ability to lead across the diverse disciplines represented in the College, and to integrate the College's contributions within a broader academic health center. Recruitment, Retention, and Development of Talent Demonstrated success recruiting, retaining, and developing outstanding cohorts of faculty, staff, and students across a range of disciplines and career stages. Substantive experience leading faculty appointment, promotion, and tenure processes; building robust mentoring and professional development pathways; and supporting the engagement and advancement of all members of the College community.

• Proven ability to grow and sustain a high‑performing research enterprise, including substantive experience competing for and managing NIH and other federal funding portfolios. Demonstrated success developing interdisciplinary research programs, supporting early‑career investigators, and leveraging shared resources to advance translational impact at scale.

• Success generating resources through foundation grants, corporate partnerships, and philanthropic outreach.

• An earned doctoral or terminal degree with achievements commensurate with appointment at the full Professor level in a discipline represented within the College, with a preference for a public health professional.

Within a preeminent public university with a history of excellence and multidisciplinary collaboration, the successful candidate should be prepared to build on existing strengths of the College to create, develop, and expand initiatives and programs that will advance the College’s contributions by:

• Developing a clear vision and strategy consistent with the University of Florida and UFHealth’s mission and best practices. Demonstrating a commitment to excellence in, and innovative approaches to, education, research, training, and service in the College’s mission areas. Demonstrating commitment to interdisciplinary activities. Adapting strategies and goals to political realities and institutional constraints, engaging broadly and seeking to bring a range of opinions and approaches to solve systemic and emerging issues.

The successful candidate will possess the ability to understand and thrive in a highly relationship‑ and consensus‑driven organization, balancing competing needs to make the best strategic and tactical decisions for the College by:

• Possessing superior communication skills and the ability to connect with a variety of audiences; clear and effective written and oral presentation; and the experience, ability, and enthusiasm to be an energetic representative and spokesperson for the College. Maintaining effective liaisons with internal and external stakeholders.

Within a large, complex academic setting, the next Dean will inspire, motivate, and direct the College’s senior leadership team, faculty, staff, and other stakeholders to their Dean’s individual team, as well as colleagues, stakeholders, and influencers throughout the organization. The Dean will do this by:

• Motivating and empowering direct reports and other team members to initiate and develop projects or strategic objectives. Providing vision, leadership, and management for the academic enterprise. Setting clear expectations and targets for scholastic and administrative contributions in collaboration with University of Florida and UFHealth leaders, department chairs, and individual faculty members.