Vacancies

Associate Lecturer in Medicine (Public Health)

• Support medical students and clinicians and improve rural health outcomes
• Develop your research profile in a supportive team
• Collaborative research across rural public health

The role

• Full Time, Continuing
• Level A - $80,046 to $108,204 pa (plus 17% superannuation)
• Orange

Working closely with senior academics, clinicians and medical students, you will provide public health and quantitative research expertise across a diverse rural health research portfolio including healthcare services , choric diseases, drug and alcohol, mental health and suicide prevention, Indigenous health and wellbeing (closing the gap), child and adolescent health, population health, and medical education.

You will play a key role in supporting medical student research projects, assisting with study design, ethics submissions, data management, analysis, and dissemination, while also contributing to grant applications, publications, and conference presentations.

This position offers a supportive, mentoring‑focused environment with strong opportunities to develop your own research profile and progress your academic career.

About you 

• PhD (or near completion) in public health, epidemiology, biostatistics, health economics or a related field
• Demonstrated experience in health research design, ethics applications and writing of data management and data analysis plans
• Strong expertise in public health data analysis, including cost-effectiveness and health economic modelling
• Proficiency in statistical software (e.g. R, Stata, SPSS or similar) and research data management
• Evidence of research output, including peer reviewed publications and conference presentations
• Demonstrated experience in supervising and supporting student research projects
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, enabling meaningful student interaction and the development of effective, collaborative industry and research partnerships.

About us 

We are a university of the land and people of our regions. True to the character of regional Australia we have gumption, we have soul and we collaborate with others. We develop holistic, far-sighted people who help their communities grow and flourish.

The Wiradjuri phrase yindyamarra winhanganha means the wisdom of respectfully knowing how to live well in a world worth living in. This phrase represents who we are at Charles Sturt University – our ethos. It comes from traditional Indigenous Australian knowledge, but it also speaks to the mission of universities – to develop and spread wisdom to make the world a better place.

Harnessing technology, we thrive as a distributed yet connected community, welcoming and engaging with people across Australia and the world.

Learn more about the Faculty of Science and Health here.

Learn more about the School of Rural Medicine here.

Visit our website to learn about our great range of employee benefits.

Charles Sturt University is committed to building a diverse workforce as shown through our Athena Swan Bronze Award, our Australian Workplace Equality Index Bronze Award and our membership of a range of diversity focused organisations including Diversity Council Australia and Pride in Diversity. We encourage applications from First Nations people, carers, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, people with disability, neurodivergent people, and people of all age groups, genders and sexualities for all roles.

To apply  

Click the Apply button and complete your application online, submit a “statement of suitability” demonstrating your skills, knowledge and/or experience relevant to the position (referencing the selection criteria in the position description) and upload your CV.

If you experience difficulties applying online or for further information on completing the application process please visit our how to apply page or contact us.

This position is open to Australian Citizens and Permanent Residents; or applicants who hold a current valid work visa commensurate with this position.

Further information 

Additional information is available in the position description or by contacting:

Dr Catherine Keniry | Associate Head (Research, Evaluation and Graduate Studies) | ckeniry@csu.edu.au| Ph: 02 6365 7052

Closing Date: 11pm, 7 May 2026 

Advertised: 23 Apr 2026 09:00 AM - AUS Eastern Standard Time
Applications close: 07 May 2026 11:00 PM - AUS Eastern Standard Time