Connecting the Community of Tufts Scholars (CCTS)
Cluster 2: Health Equity
Currently Hiring
The CCTS Health Equity Cluster will foster collaborative and interdisciplinary research, scholarship, teaching, and community engagement efforts centering on health outcomes for racially and/or ethnically marginalized groups, both locally and globally. We are committed to supporting faculty who use 1) innovative approaches and interventions to address health disparities and various factors that impact health, such as structural drivers (e.g., economic, environmental), community context, healthcare, and other social determinants of health; and 2) using frameworks that center on fairness, community strengths, opportunity, and social justice.
Cluster 1: Climate
Bringing together Tufts' unique strengths in engineering, humanities, nutrition, and policy to address equity and racial justice through the lens of Climate.
School of Arts & Sciences
Classics: Brandon McDonald
Climate Change in Classical Antiquity
English: Emily Strasser
Creative Non-Fiction and Journalism
School of Engineering
Life Cycle Analysis: Lauryn Spearing
CEE/ChBE departments
The Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
Agriculture and Climate: Khristopher Nicholas
About CCTS
Connecting the Community of Tufts Scholars (CCTS) is a new cluster hiring program designed to attract and support faculty whose work centers on race, equity, and disadvantaged communities in the U.S. and around the world.
- Tufts will hire three clusters of up to five faculty over the next 3-5 years, adding a total of up to fifteen new faculty to join our strong interdisciplinary research community. The Office of the Provost will be jointly funding these positions with participating schools
- Faculty clusters receive mentoring and professional development to foster community and provide opportunities to use their research, scholarship, and teaching to shape important dialogues
- The first CCTS cluster is focused on climate
- The second CCTS cluster is focused on health equity, with recruitment underway
Program goals
Increase: Increase number and impact of faculty whose work across the University whose work centers race, equity, and disadvantaged communities in the U.S. and globally.
Nurture: Nurture the conditions for our faculty to address difficult contemporary problems as they arise around the intersection of race, racism, racial equity, and justice.
Build: Build a critical mass of interdisciplinary faculty whose work centers race, racism, racial equity and justice.
Encourage & Foster: Encourage and foster cooperation among an already strong faculty and staff research body.
Create: Create innovative educational and research opportunities for our students and trainees.
Target: Target broader arrays of research funding streams as well as other forms of recognition and support.
Expand: Expand our racial equity efforts beyond Tufts.
Connect with Us
Executive Leadership Team
- Caroline Genco, Provost and Senior Vice President
- Monroe France, Vice Provost for Institutional Inclusive Excellence
- Colleen Ryan, Vice Provost for Faculty
CCTS Core Team
- Augusta Rohrbach, Associate Provost for Faculty Initiatives
- Ryan Rideau, Assistant Provost for Faculty Development
- Tiffany House, Senior Associate Director for Inclusive Faculty Engagement