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The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS) is seeking a Dean of Public Health. Now 
more than ever, public health research is needed to identify disease patterns, risk factors, and 
health outcomes, and to develop and implement interventions to treat and prevent disease and 
improve overall health, in our local, national, and international communities. Public health 
research is also essential to inform and optimize health policies—to help governments and other 
organizations make informed decisions about how to allocate resources and prioritize health 
interventions. A growing effort in public health is needed to identify health disparities and the 
social and environmental factors that contribute to them, and to generate interventions that reduce 
health inequities. Mount Sinai has established strength in all of these areas of research and now 
seeks to advance a leading public health agenda in research, education, and practice.

To achieve this goal, ISMMS seeks a world leader to serve as Dean of Public Health at Mount 
Sinai to develop a new, galvanizing vision that integrates research with training across the rich 
fields of public health. Our goal is to further grow and integrate our already robust efforts present 
in numerous graduate programs and in robust research efforts across entities on campus, 
including the Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, the Department of 
Population Health Science and Policy, the Department of Global Health and Health Systems 
Design, the Arnhold Institute for Global Health, the Institute for Transformative Clinical Trials, the 
Institute for Exposomics, and the Institute for Health Equity Research, among many others.

The new Dean will join a community of faculty, trainees, and staff eager to embrace the challenge 
of further connecting medical care and public health to bring interdisciplinary approaches to 
solving systemic and emerging issues that cross public health, healthcare access, prevention of 
disease, and patient care. We strive to meet the 21st century challenges of aging public health 
infrastructure, pandemics, climate change, and rapidly changing disease patterns, while 
advancing opportunities in genomics, exposomics, vaccines, evaluation sciences, data science, 
and artificial intelligence. We recognize that these challenges must be met in partnership with 
communities, patients, non-profit organizations, health departments, and other government 
officials. Health communication and messaging are equally as important to healthy societies as 
breakthroughs in technology. Only through the collaboration of clinicians, researchers, and public 
health experts working in tandem can the major health issues facing the world today be solved.

ISMMS is internationally renowned for its outstanding research, educational and clinical care 
programs. ISMMS is the sole academic partner for the eight member hospitals of the Mount 
Sinai Health System, one of the largest health systems in the United States, providing care to 
an enormous and diverse patient population. The ISMMS, which opened its doors in 1968 (and 
was recently renamed in 2013), has a long and distinguished tradition of excellence in 
clinical/translational and basic research, as well as in innovative patient care, professional 
education, and community involvement. Over 3,000 full-time scientists, educators and clinicians 
work within and across 36 academic departments and 33 multidisciplinary institutes, a structure 
that facilitates tremendous collaboration and synergy. The ISMMS ranks #15 among U.S. 
medical schools in NIH research funding and #4 in public health. 

If you are interested in being considered for the role, please send your CV and a one-page 
statement of interest to eric.nestler@mssm.edu and shema.patel@mssm.edu.

About Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS) is internationally renowned for its outstanding research, educational and clinical care programs. ISMMS is the sole academic partner for the eight member hospitals of the Mount Sinai Health System, one of the largest health systems in the United States, providing care to an enormous and diverse patient population. The ISMMS, which opened its doors in 1968 (and was recently renamed in 2013), has a long and distinguished tradition of excellence in clinical/translational and basic research, as well as in innovative patient care, professional education, and community involvement. Over 3,000 full-time scientists, educators and clinicians work within and across 36 academic departments and 33 multidisciplinary institutes, a structure that facilitates tremendous collaboration and synergy. The ISMMS ranks #15 among U.S. medical schools in NIH research funding and #4 in public health.

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