Welcome to the School of Public Health! Below is a select list of resources new faculty find useful early in their employment. This list details programs and opportunities available in the school and at the university.
School of Public Health
- SPH Health Equity Work Group Peer Mentors for health equity discussions in the classroom
- Important SPH meetings to schedule:
- Rachel Smith, Director of Communications and Marketing
- Lauren Jones, Director of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
- Kathryn Tjaden Balster, Chief Advancement Officer
- National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity (NCFDD): Membership is free! Useful live and recorded webinars and their Faculty Success Program (FSP). Financial support to cover at least half of the application fee is available from the SPH Office of Faculty Affairs and/or the UMN Provost Office. Contact SPH OFA at sph-ofa@umn.edu if interested.
University of Minnesota
- Office of the Vice President and Provost resources
- New Faculty Orientation information (presentations, resource links) from the Office of the Provost (this is an annual event held in late August)
- New Faculty Program (this is a zoom program held ~monthly through the academic year)
- Strong Start at the U: A Resource Guide for New Faculty
- Office of Public Engagement
- Public Engagement Footprint (if this is relevant to your work, add your community engaged projects to their footprint)
- Institute for Diversity, Equity and Advocacy (IDEA)
- Research & Innovation Office RIO (funding and award opportunities, seed/pilot/travel/student funding such as Grant In Aid)
- Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI)
- funding opportunities (for students, post-docs, junior investigators, others)
- leadership development opportunities such as Mothers Leading Science and Northern LITeS and the K and Beyond Club
- sign up for the CTSI newsletter to get those funding and leadership announcements!
- Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility (CGHSR)
- grants and programs specific to research and training and engagement
- Center for Women in Medicine & Science (CWIMS) – CWIMS is supported by the Medical School. All CWIMS (e.g., events, programming) is open to non-medicine faculty except for the Action Groups.
- Health Equity Leadership & Mentoring program (HELM)
- Wellness and Wellbeing
