Bourses d’apprentissage en matière d’impact sur le système de santé : outil d’établissement de liens pour les organismes d’accueil partenaires

• Workload and caseload assessment for the different types of workers in Child and Family Services by region
• Assessment of staff work satisfaction
• Assessment of resources and barriers by region
• Comparative analysis of indicators, outcomes, case types, and standards compliance in regions with high vs. low caseloads
• Needs assessment for skill mix and resources
• Optimization modeling (i.e. predictive models of system change impacts on workload demands, caseload capacity, workflow and resources required)
• Optimization of ongoing assessment process

• Les axes principaux de la recherche à SPOT sont les suivants:
  • Trajectoires des personnes en situation de vulnérabilité
  • Trajectoires des étudiant.e.s et acquisition de compétences
  • Organisation des soins -Développement des communautés
  • Résultats de santé Les méthodes employées peuvent être diverses; les méthodes mixtes sont appréciées de par leur évaluation souvent plus complète d'une problématique. Les méthodes qualitatives permettent également de prendre en considération le point de vue des personnes interrogées et s'accordent bien avec la structure de l'organisme et le terrain de recherche dont elle bénificie.

• Élaboration de protocoles
• Revue de littératures
• compilation de données internes (bases de données médicales, par exemple)
• Analyses de données
• Collecte de données (entrevues individuelles auprès d'intervenants ou d'utilisateurs de soins, groupes de discussion, sondages, etc.)
• Participation à l'évaluation de la résilience organisationnelle

• Assessing risks, and efficacy and impacts of interventions, to inform the development of national public health programs and policies.
• Undertaking Federal leadership research that underpins development of prevention and control interventions.
• Undertaking Federal leadership in development, implementation and evaluation of public health methods, practices and programs via engagement of national partners and stakeholders.

1. Occurrence and current and future public health impact of emerging diseases (including impacts of climatic, other environmental and socioeconomic changes and vulnerabilities);
2. Effects and effectiveness of public health interventions to prevent and control disease; to drive development and design of public health policies and programs.

1. Access to mental health care and substance use supports [in the context of the dual public health emergency]; general population, marginalized populations, homeless and congregate housed populations
2. BC’s public drug plan (Pharmacare), assessment of alterations to drug policy and clinical guidelines
3. Action-research (in real time, with learning applied immediately and ongoing study and adaptation) on:
   • Long term care and hospital interventions
   • Primary and Community Care
   • Health Human Resources
   • Health Information and Technology

• To conduct policy-relevant research and evidence reviews to evaluate and inform new policy responses to complex social and health issues facing children and families.
• To provide data expertise to support policy and practice decision-making in government and non-profit sector.

• Evidence-Informed Policy Development and Review
• Knowledge Mobilization
• Environmental scans, literature reviews
• Quantitative, qualitative analysis
• Program evaluation, impact assessment
• Engagement with government and community stakeholders
• Data linkage and improvement

The trainee will be better able to

1. understand policy-relevant research and its application to the policy development cycles,
2. engage with community organizations to provide meaningful applied research, and
3. explore career opportunities inside and outside of academia. Please contact us well before the fellowship application deadline to discuss how we could partner together on a meaningful project.

Please contact us well before the fellowship application deadline to discuss how we could partner together on a meaningful project.

• identify and prioritize greatest needs, including the development of strategies, tools and resources to address these needs
• develop a research agenda and/or evaluation framework to guide effective use of virtual care
• study how we can effectively implement practice-ready evidence

• Bring system-wide leadership and coordination in advancing a culture of quality within the province;
• Facilitate the building of capability and expertise for patient safety and quality in the BC health system;
• Support health authorities and other health sector stakeholders in their continuing efforts to improve quality;
• Improve health system transparency and accountability to patients and the public for the safety and quality of care provided in British Columbia; and
• Identify and promote local, regional and provincial opportunities for engaging the patient perspective in health care transformation.

• Patient Reported Outcome Measures: Embedding and translating PROMs data into clinical practice change and improvement.
• Economic Impact and Evaluation: Assessing interventions and investments in health care improvement.
• Appropriateness: Assessing and exploring opportunities for addressing appropriateness in advancing quality of care in British Columbia.
• Value-based Health Care: Determining and assessing approaches to embedding value-based health care into health system planning and improvement.
• Assessing macro level approaches to change management and improvement.

Institut national d'excellence en santé et en services sociaux (INESSS) (in French only)
Marie-Helene Chastenay
514-873-2563 #29130
Quebec

INESSS is aware of the need to enhance leadership capacity to support the transformation of the health and social services system. In support of the INESSS mandates, the successful candidate will be able to provide a methodological background to participate with a senior mentor from the institute, in support of strengthened clinical governance, at one or more levels of the cycle of activities, under four main functions:

• The identification of priorities, which aims to inform the choice of priorities towards the sectors of activity where the potential gains in optimizing practices are the highest
• The development of knowledge products, at the heart of INESSS activities, leading to the production of assessments, recommendations and guides based on the best available knowledge
• The implementation of recommendations, which is intended to equip the department, as well as clinicians and managers, to accelerate the implementation of recommendations
• Measurement and evaluation, which aim to instrument the network's actors to monitor the implementation of the recommendations as well as to feed into the identification of priorities for the next cycle of activities

1. Implement ethical and methodological standards arising from the INESSS institutional assessment framework
   • Methodological work on the integration of knowledge
   • Value assessment in a real world context
   • Methodological work on the care and services pathways of users
2. Carry out evaluation mandates deemed to be priorities in the fields of drugs, health services and social services
   1. Evaluation for reimbursement purposes
      • Evaluation of drugs for listing
      • Products of Quebec's blood systems
      • Technological innovations and medical devices
      • Cellular therapies
   2. Social Services
      • Evaluation of intervention methods in the social services and mental health fields
      • Support for improved practices in programs for people with disabilities, troubled youth, support for seniors' autonomy, mental health, addictions and homelessness
      • Development of trajectories of care and referral services and development of the capacity to measure them
   3. Evaluation and Relevance of Health Intervention Methods
      • Optimal use of medication and medical biology tests
      • National medical protocols and associated prescriptions
      • Proximity services/First line
      • Screening and preventive clinical practices
      • Medical biology and genomics
      • Relevance and diagnostic Trajectory (Imaging)
      • Traumatology - critical care - pre-hospital
      • Transplantation
      • Cardiology and neurovascular diseases
      • Oncology
      • Health intervention methods
      • End-of-life care
3. Characterize different sub-populations and care pathways in the context of the COVID pandemic

INESSS has a central place at the heart of Quebec’s health and social services network, and positions itself as a partner in the Canadian network and abroad. Practical learning opportunities within INESSS are plentiful and can take the form of many kinds of enriching projects, in terms of both career development for the fellow and organizational impact for INESSS. Depending on the profile of the successful applicant, here are some examples of project portfolios that are aligned with the strategic plan:

• Quantitative Methodologies Profile:
  • Characterization of care and service pathways
  • Analysis of the use of care and services
  • Practice variation study
  • Identification of areas with high potential for improvement by exploiting the potential of mega-data (support for the ministerial clinical relevance project)
  • Support for evaluation mandates using advanced statistical and analytical methodologies
  • Modeling of care and service trajectories according to different parameters
• Policy and Systems Analysis Profile:
  • Implementation of the new institutional framework for technology assessment for public reimbursement
  • Implementation of accelerated assessment modalities for innovative health technologies under POETIS (optimized process for evaluating intervention technologies in health and social services)
• Mixed Methods Profile:
  • Study of the diverse perspectives of stakeholders involved in technology assessment
  • Evaluation of the impact of INESSS recommendations in a real-world context
  • Studies of new partnership modalities in collaboration with the academic community and the technology assessment and intervention units in health and social services (UETMI) in order to strengthen network collaboration

Either / both

L’INESSS est consciente de l’impératif du rehaussement des capacités de leadership en appui à la transformation du système de santé et de services sociaux. En soutien à la réalisation des mandats de l’INESSS, le candidat retenu sera en mesure de fournir un bagage méthodologique pour participer avec un mentor senior de l’institut, au soutien en matière de gouvernance clinique renforcée, à l’un ou plusieurs niveaux du cycle d’activités sous quatre grandes fonctions :

• L’identification de priorités, qui vise à éclairer les choix de priorités vers les secteurs d’activité où les gains potentiels d’optimisation des pratiques sont les plus élevés
• L’élaboration de produits de connaissances, au cœur des activités de l’INESSS, qui mène à la production d’évaluations, d’avis et de guides reposant sur les meilleures connaissances disponibles
• La mise en œuvre de recommandations, qui a pour but d’outiller le ministère, ainsi que les cliniciens et les gestionnaires, pour accélérer l’implantation des recommandations
• La mesure et l’évaluation, qui visent à instrumenter les acteurs du réseau pour suivre la mise en œuvre des recommandations ainsi que pour alimenter l’identification des priorités du prochain cycle d’activités

1. Implanter les normes éthiques et méthodologiques découlant du cadre institutionnel d'évaluation de l’INESSS
   • Chantier méthodologique d’intégration des savoirs
   • Chantier d’évaluation de la valeur en contexte réel
   • Chantier méthodologique sur les parcours de soins et services des usagers
2. Réaliser les mandats d'évaluation jugés prioritaires dans les domaines du médicament, des services de santé et des services sociaux
   1. Évaluation aux fins de remboursement
      • Évaluation des médicaments aux fins d’inscription
      • Produits des systèmes de sang du Québec
      • Innovations technologiques et dispositifs médicaux
      • Thérapies cellulaires
   2. Services sociaux
      • Évaluation des modes d’intervention dans le domaine des services sociaux et de la santé mentale
      • Soutien à l’amélioration des pratiques dans le cadre des programmes en déficience, jeunes en difficulté, soutien à l’autonomie des personnes âgées, santé mentale, dépendance et itinérance
      • Développement de trajectoires de soins et de services de référence et développement des capacités pour les mesurer
   3. Évaluation et pertinence des modes d’intervention en santé
      • Usage optimal du médicament et des tests de biologie médicale
      • Protocoles médicaux nationaux et ordonnances associées
      • Services de proximité/première ligne
      • Dépistage et pratiques cliniques préventives
      • Biologie médicale et génomique
      • Pertinence et trajectoire diagnostique (imagerie)
      • Traumatologie - soins critiques - préhospitalier
      • Transplantation
      • Cardiologie et maladies neurovasculaires
      • Cancérologie
      • Modes d’intervention en santé
      • Soins de fin de vie
3. Caractériser différentes sous-populations et parcours de soins en contexte de pandémie COVID

L’INESSS détient une place privilégiée au cœur du réseau de la santé et des services sociaux au Québec et se positionne en partenaire au sein du réseau canadien et à l’international. Les occasions d’apprentissage pratique au sein de l’INESSS peuvent être multiples et revêtir plusieurs types de mandats enrichissants, en termes de développement de carrière pour le boursier et d’impact organisationnel pour l’INESSS. Selon le profil du candidat retenu, voici quelques exemples de portfolios de projets en congruence avec le plan stratégique :

• Profil Méthodologies quantitatives :
  • Caractérisation des parcours de soins et de services
  • Analyse de l’utilisation des soins et services
  • Étude de variation de pratiques,
  • Identification des pistes à fort potentiel d’amélioration en exploitant le potentiel des Mégadonnées (soutien au chantier ministériel de pertinence clinique)
  • Soutien aux mandats d’évaluation à l’aide de méthodologies statistiques et analytiques avancées
  • Modélisation des trajectoires de soins et services selon différents paramètres
• Profil analyse des politiques et systèmes :
  • Implantation du nouveau cadre institutionnel d’évaluation des technologies aux fins d’un remboursement public
  • Implantation de modalités d’évaluation accélérée des technologies innovantes en santé dans le cadre de POETIS (processus optimisé d’évaluation des technologies d’intervention en santé et services sociaux)
• Profil Méthodes mixtes :
  • Étude des perspectives diversifiées des parties prenantes engagées dans l’évaluation des technologies
  • Évaluation de l’impact des recommandations de l’INESSS en contexte réel
  • Études de nouvelles modalités de partenariat en lien avec les milieux universitaires et les unités d’évaluation des technologies et modes d’intervention en santé et en services sociaux (UETMI) dans une perspective de renforcement de la collaboration en réseau

The impact goal for this fellowship is to leverage CIHI’s broad range of health databases, measurements, standards and stakeholders towards an innovative study, product or technique that would help accelerate knowledge or evidence-based improvements in health care, health system performance or population health.

CIHI is an independent, not-for-profit organization that provides essential information on Canada’s health systems and the health of Canadians. We provide comparable and actionable data and information that are used to accelerate improvements in health care, health system performance and population health across Canada.

The Health System Analytics branch develops policy-relevant products that support health system decision-makers via analytical reports, infographics, data tables, chart books and interactive web tools on subjects ranging from wait times and international comparisons to seniors that compel and guide action to improvement.

The Health System Performance Branch is responsible for assessing the performance of Canada’s health systems and providing stakeholders with actionable information to be able to make informed decisions. It also provides support on the use of information and helps build capacity for using performance information within the health systems.

The Population and Indigenous Health Branch leads the development of standards for socio-demographic data including race-based data and Indigenous identity data, in close partnership with stakeholders, health sector leaders, and Indigenous organizations and communities.

• Our priority populations: seniors and aging; children and youth; mental health and addictions
• Methodological approaches or indicators of CIHI’s Health System Performance themes: value for money, outcomes, quality and safety, patient experiences
• The continued development of Cardiac Care Quality Indicators and partnership work with the Canadian Cardiovascular Society
• COVID-19

• Quantitative or qualitative analysis, including methodology development
• Environmental or literature scanning
• Analytic product development cycle, including publications and communications
• Stakeholder interactions, including consultations and KTE activities
• Policy analysis
• Project management
• Corporate, strategic or governance work

• Delivery of community-based cancer care, including optimizing the roles of primary care within a structured approach to community-based survivorship care
• Coordination and integration between primary care, specialist care, and community-based support services to better meet patient/survivor needs
• Enabling smooth transitions in care, particularly as patients transition from active treatment to follow-up care

• Develop an understanding of the landscape and requirement of health/social data custodianship and management in Yukon
• Align work with the Yukon Government, and Department of Health and Social Services’ strategic priorities, and recommendations from the current Comprehensive Review of Health and Social Services
• Development of a performance measurement framework with associated data sources and indicators, including evidence-based measures and standards for northern and remote locations
• Building models for effective learning health and social service systems through the application of data and analytics for priority areas

• Stakeholder consultations
• Environmental scans
• Literature reviews, information collecting and summarizing
• Needs assessments
• Presentations and report writing, including senior management briefings
• Indicator development
• Policy development
• Knowledge translation
• Evaluation
• Strategic application of data to address health and social service system strategies

• Haute direction;
• Département des urgences de l’Hôpital Charles-Le Moyne (HCLM) et l’Hôpital du Haut-Richelieu (HHR);
• Services préhospitaliers.

• Développement un projet d’accompagnement et de recherche appliquée en regard d’un enjeu sur la performance organisationnelle et clinique du CISSS-MC;
• Analyse de données de natures qualitatives et quantitatives sur la performance organisationnelle;
• Support de la haute direction dans la mise en place de mesure d’amélioration de la gouvernance et de la gestion de la performance.

• child abuse, specifically sexual abuse but also severe physical abuse and neglect
• integrated practice
• prevention strategies
• CAC practice frameworks/models/standards

• Organizational engagement around the research and evaluation strategy
• Alignment and measurement of the organization's current strategic priorities and identified outcomes
• Multi-disciplinary teamwork with system partners to leverage data already collected
• Community engagement and capacity building around research and evaluation (within our community and provincially)
• Strategic leadership of the organization's evaluation and research strategy

About us: Mandate and strategic goals

The Clinical Practice Assessment Unit (CPAU) of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) is a hospital-based research unit that provides leadership, mentorship, and support to projects designed to promote quality improvement, patient safety, high-value healthcare and optimize patient care within the Department of Medicine. The CPAU was founded in 2015 and is composed of a scientific oversight committee partnered with 17 quality leads from each of the sub-specialty Divisions within the Department of Medicine. We provide infrastructure for high value healthcare research, facilitate access to the various data sources contained within the MUHC, provide a physical working space, and have the necessary administrative support for implementing and publishing quality improvement projects. The Unit works closely with other hospital research and quality committees such as the Technology Assessment Unit (a government of Quebec mandated unit that advises the hospital in resource allocation decisions), the Clinical Pertinence Coordinating Committee (a hospital centric committee that implements high-impact cross-hospital value-based interventions aimed at improving patient care with support from the Director General of the Hospital and the Director of Professional Services), the Medical Mission Quality Committee (which interfaces with nursing and other health providers’ initiatives), the information technology development team, and the hospital’s Data Warehouse. The CPAU organizes an annual High Value Healthcare Symposium where staff and trainees present their research in the field of high value healthcare and national and international invited speakers provide a more global context.

HSIF impact goal: Advance the science of providing safe, efficient, quality care to MUHC patients. Participate in mixed methods research to develop, pilot, refine, evaluate and implement strategies to provide high value healthcare to inpatients. The focus will be on the measurement and monitoring of safety, implementation of QI initiatives, and pragmatic trials.

• Critical thinking, disruptive research and pragmatic interventions to address overuse
• Promotes patient safety and performance change through information technology, audit and feedback, and/or continuing medical education.

Select publications:

1. The impact of single rooms on healthcare infections
2. Improving transfusion practices
3. The MedSafer Study

• Mentorship by senior hospital administration members - Analyze hospital data to promote change with a focus on quality and safety.
• Qualitative and quantitative research methods for implementing QI interventions.
• Leadership, management, strategy and policy development
• Professional development.

• Health system transformation
• Integrated care
• Mental health and addictions
• Funding models
• Indigenous health
• Health equity
• Patient engagement/partnership
• Practitioner scope of practice
• Emergency management (CBRNE)

• Literature reviews
• Synthesize and translate evidence into policy and program recommendations
• Analyze and summarize existing evidence
• Develop collaborative relationships with researchers
• Build capacity and knowledge within government
• Strategize and plan research events
• Develop user-centric communications to disseminate information to different audiences (for policy briefings, engaging stakeholders)

• Economic modeling
• Program evaluation
• Performance measurement
• Funding models
• Health system transformation
• Integrated care
• Indigenous health
• Mental health and addictions
• Patient engagement/partnership
• And more (priorities vary according to government direction)

• Analyze and summarize existing evidence
• Analyze quantitative and qualitative data
• Undertake complex evaluation and/or economic projects (including costing, modeling, forecasting, program/policy evaluation, impact assessment)
• Develop collaborative relationships with researchers
• Build capacity and knowledge within government
• Translate evidence into policy and program recommendations
• Develop user-centric communications (including data visualization) to disseminate information to different audiences (for policy briefings, engaging stakeholders)

See ipph.ca/ai for more details on the HSIF Equitable AI Stream.

• Big Data and machine learning: Areas of interests and priority in machine learning include big data and prediction modelling; and disease clustering and alerting for action.
• Population health monitoring
• Sexually Transmitted and Bloodborne infections including hepatitis, HIV and STIs (See: BC Hepatitis Testers Cohort/https://bchtc.med.ubc.ca/)
• Harm Reduction and overdose response
• Tuberculosis
• Communicable & Vaccine preventable diseases
• Antimicrobial stewardship
• Environmental health
• Chronic disease prevention, health promotion and surveillance / BC Observatory for Population & Public Health
• Public health laboratory services

Please visit the Website to see the BCCDC’s comprehensive approaches to public health in British Columbia. The HSIF Equitable AI fellow hosted at BCCDC will apply AI methods to address public health challenges affecting populations in Canada. The fellow will collaborate alongside a cohort of Equitable AI fellows across federal and provincial public health agencies to build AI capacity in public health research and practice. See ipph.ca/ai for more details on the HSIF Equitable AI Stream.

• Population and public health
• Children / vulnerable populations
• Chronic disease and injury prevention
• Inter-departmental and inter-governmental collaboration

• Development of agreements between federal departments, hospitals, as well as federal, provincial, and territorial governments to facilitate data collection and access
• Development of processes that streamline the development of surveillance studies
• Assess viable secure online data collection technology
• Implementation of a plan to increase client engagement

• Frail seniors
• Patients with mental health and addiction issues
• End of life patients

• Seniors primary care, and intensive clinical needs (heart failure, COPD, dementia)
• Mental health and addictions
• Virtual primary care, increased access to specialists and allied health and scaling up digital tools

• Big Data and machine learning: application of machine learning in public health including prediction modelling; disease clustering and alerting for public health action.
• Population health monitoring
• Sexually Transmitted and Bloodborne infections including hepatitis, HIV and STIs (See: BC Hepatitis Testers Cohort)
• Harm Reduction and overdose response
• Tuberculosis
• Communicable & Vaccine preventable diseases
• Antimicrobial stewardship
• Environmental health
• Chronic disease prevention, health promotion and surveillance / BC Observatory for Population & Public Health
• Public health laboratory services

L’Institut a pour mission de développer la connaissance et contribuer à la surveillance de l’état de santé de la population et de ses déterminants. Tel qu’annoncé dans son plan stratégique 2019-2022, l’Institut souhaite investir dans le secteur de l’intelligence artificielle qui offre de multiples possibilités applicables à la santé publique.

La politique linguistique de l'INSPQ prévoit que les stagiaires doivent pouvoir communiquer, lire, écrire en français.

• Toxicologie et santé environnementale
• Aide à la décision pour le diagnostic d’infections en génomique clinique - Surveillance de la polypharmacie chez les aînés - Surveillance de l’usage des antibiotiques
• Applications de l’IA à la santé publique
• Trajectoires de soins et maladies chroniques
• Méthodes de surveillance Le ou la titulaire d’une BAISS – volet IA équitable à l’Institut mettra en application les méthodes d’IA pour s’attaquer aux problèmes de santé publique touchant les diverses populations du Canada. La personne collaborera avec une cohorte de titulaires d’une BAISS – volet IA équitable œuvrant dans des organismes fédéraux et provinciaux de santé publique afin de développer les capacités en IA pour la recherche et la pratique dans le domaine de la santé publique. Rendez-vous au ipph-ispp.ca/ia pour en savoir plus sur le volet IA équitable des BAISS.

• Aptitudes d’apprentissage (Machine learning)
• Aide à la décision - Analyse de données quantitatives ou qualitatives
• Surveillance en santé (usage des médicaments)
• Analyse du contexte
• Élaboration de stratégies - etc. Rendez-vous au ipph-ispp.ca/ia pour en savoir plus sur le volet IA équitable des BAISS.

L’INSPQ et l’ASPC forment un partenariat pour soutenir leur mission respective en analyse et développement des politiques publiques favorables à la santé et au bien-être de la population.

L’INSPQ soutient la prise de décision éclairée par l’analyse et la synthèse de l’impact sur la santé publique de projets de loi, de politiques ou d’orientations gouvernementales.

L’ASPC a pour mission de promouvoir et protéger la santé des Canadiens au moyen du leadership, de partenariats, de l'innovation et de la prise de mesures dans le domaine de la santé publique.

La politique linguistique de l'INSPQ prévoit que les stagiaires doivent pouvoir communiquer, lire, écrire en français.

Santé environnementale (qualité de l’air, qualité de l’eau, adaptation aux changements climatiques)

Risques biologiques (maladies infectieuses dont COVID-19, immunisation, infections nosocomiales, Infections transmissibles par le sexe et le sang)

Santé au travail (incluant santé mentale au travail, santé des travailleurs de la santé, etc.)

Développement des individus et des communautés (habitudes de vie et prévention des maladies chroniques, santé mentale, sécurité et prévention des traumatismes, etc.)

Surveillance des maladies transmissibles, des maladies chroniques, des traumatismes et de leurs déterminants

Inégalités sociales et territoriales

Mesures et interventions en cas d’urgence

Ces priorités pourront être couvertes sous l’angle des politiques publiques (prioritairement) ou de toutes autres thématiques liées à la mission de l’INSPQ et de l’ASPC.

Analyse et synthèse de connaissances scientifiques sur les enjeux de politiques publiques et la santé et le bien-être de la population

Développement des compétences en élaboration des politiques publiques et de l’approche d’évaluation d’impact des politiques sur la santé

Évaluation d’impact sur la santé (EIS) des politiques publiques

Veille stratégique en lien avec les politiques favorables à la santé

Soutien dans l’application de l’article 54 de la Loi sur la santé publique du Québec
Interventions en santé publique et épidémiologie de terrain

Analyses épidémiologiques en soutien aux décisions en santé publique

Recherche appliquée dans les domaines des sciences de la vie et des sciences sociales

Développement de lignes directrices dans les domaines de la promotion de la santé et de la prévention des maladies

Autres projets reliés aux politiques publiques favorables à la santé

1. Examining experience with the opioid crisis from the perspective of the three provincial public health agencies located in Ontario, BC and Quebec.

• contributing to strategic development of priority areas;
• quantitative or qualitative analysis;
• predictive modelling;
• evaluation and risk assessment;
• interpreting results, knowledge synthesis and dissemination to a variety of audiences;
• HSIF Equitable AI Fellows will employ advanced AI methods to address challenges associated with antimicrobial resistance. See ipph.ca/ai for more details on the HSIF Equitable AI Stream.

• Validating the Alberta Pain Strategy with Health System Operations, Academic Partners, Community providers and patients and families
• Creating a full business case for priority areas within the Acute, Chronic and Opioid Working groups focused on identified gaps and evidence informed solutions
• Support research in the area of addictions and pain across the lifespan
• Support systematic review of the role of cannabis in treatment of pain across the lifespan
• Help create a white paper on the role of education for clinicians as a means of improving training within the academic centers in Alberta

The Health Systems Impact Fellow will lead, facilitate and support the development and refinement of research questions and methods within the Critical Care SCN. The Health Systems Impact Fellow will apply a spectrum of advanced epidemiological, analytic, and statistical skills to create a “living atlas” of critical care in Alberta. This “living atlas” aims to identify and generate opportunities for improved effectiveness, appropriateness and acceptability, and to support a pipeline of innovation for critical care in Alberta.

Potential priority areas of interest to be evaluated would include (but are not limited to):

1. Best practices and outcomes in use of acute renal replacement therapy and acute kidney injury.
2. Best practices and outcomes in mechanical ventilation and acute respiratory distress (ARDS) management, including in patients with COVID-19.
3. Best practices and outcomes in sepsis, including diagnostic testing and antimicrobial stewardship.
4. Best practices in ICU organization and operations, including an evaluation of strain on ICU bed capacity.
5. Identification and outcomes among vulnerable populations with critical illness, including mental health and addictions.

Fellowship output will include opportunities to disseminate to academic, clinical, operational, and lay audiences to inform local and provincial policy, procedures and decision-making in an evolving learning health system.

• Develop creative analytical and AI strategies to help clients mobilize on their AI journey
• Implement AI and analytical assets to solve specific client-related business problems
• Influence the transformation of the healthcare system

• Strategic advisory (strategic planning, visioning, transition planning) for healthcare organizations
• Identifying the value of leveraging data internal and external to organizations
• Development of AI and analytical assets to solve specific client problems
• Assessing the effectiveness of therapies, programs, and practices across the health system
• Thought leadership including external scans, research on leading health practices, innovative technological solutions, and interactive stakeholder engagement
• Evolving and integrating funding models

The successful fellow(s) will have a range of opportunities to lead and/or contribute to any or all of the following: AI strategy development; machine learning and AI-enabled solutions; analysis and modelling of healthcare data; environmental scanning of health systems; evaluation of programs, therapies or policies; economic analyses; development of reports for clients; and participating in meetings with internal and external clients.

Fellows will have the opportunity to work with the most eminent health systems, healthcare delivery, clinical research, and academic health care organizations in Canada. Fellows will thus be offered a rich breadth and depth of opportunities, which will provide tremendous benefits as they progress in their careers.

• curing hepatitis C for patients with known infection
• supporting physicians to use data for learning through an innovative CPD program

• Population and public health
• Children / vulnerable populations
• Cancer control and prevention of late effects from disease and treatment
• Inter-departmental and inter-governmental collaboration

• Development of agreements between federal departments and federal, provincial, and territorial governments to facilitate data linkage
• Support for the documentation of the data linkage process
• Analyses of linked data to demonstrate their utility
• Development of publications to promote the availability and future use of linked data

• New models of care (e.g. integrated care models, virtual care,governance & leadership)
• Primary care
• Provider burnout
• Quality improvement
• Regulatory reform
• Mental health and addiction
• Digital health
• Physician engagement
• Physician human resources
• Comparative health system performance

• Policy Development, analyses, and briefings
• Health economic analyses
• Surveys
• Stakeholder consultation and collaboration
• Literature and jurisdictional scans
• Knowledge translation
• Implementation

• Developing and streamlining quantitative and qualitative data gathering strategies
• Program evaluation focused on individual and community impact
• Building an evidence base of youth perceptions, experiences, and needs related to mental health Knowledge translation that highlights the youth perspective to health-care professionals and government decision-makers
• Engaging in environmental scans, literature reviews and/or data analysis of existing work relating to policies and practices in mental health service delivery

The Public Health Agency of Canada’s (PHAC) mandate is to promote health, prevent diseases and injuries, and prepare for and respond to public health emergencies. This includes conducting public health surveillance to inform public health action, policies and programs. In 2017, Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer recently profiled "designing healthy living" as the topic of her annual report because of the tremendous potential that changing our built environment has for helping Canadians live healthier lives. The result has been an increasing focus within PHAC on the role of built environments for health promotion. The report notes “Unravelling the complexity of the impact of the built environment on population health lies in precision public health, which uses data to guide interventions to benefit populations more effectively.” More recently, a national strategy entitled: A Common Vision for increasing physical activity and reducing sedentary living in Canada: Let’s Get Moving highlights the importance of “Places and Spaces” as key to achieving the goals of the Common Vision. Finally, the 2020, Speech from the Throne, specifically highlights the government of Canada’s plans to “help deliver more transit and active transit options”.

The Behaviours, Environments and Lifespan Division (BELD) is responsible for the surveillance of health-related behaviours, including physical activity, sedentary behaviour and sleep, within the context of health promotion. In response to Agency and government initiatives, BELD has increased its focus on projects using spatial epidemiology with a particular focus on achieving a better understanding of the role of active transportation and supportive environments to increase physical activity and reduce sedentary behaviour. With the recent COVID-19 pandemic it has become increasingly important to understand how the use of spatial epidemiology and supportive environments for healthy behaviours (e.g., active transportation, physical activity, reduced sedentary behaviour) can reduce the spread of COVID-19 and other infectious diseases, as well as mitigate some of the unintentional consequences.

• Active transportation prevalence, trends and supportive infrastructure (e.g., walkability).
• Use of spatial epidemiology to better understand support environments for the promotion of physical activity and the reduction of sedentary behaviour.
• Developing innovative data collection tools/methods, such as satellite imagery, geographic information systems, machine learning, and use of open data.
• Developing partnerships between levels of government and Federal departments to link research and health surveillance activities to government programs and policies.
• Employing innovative knowledge translation tools including infographics, interactive maps to make data and analytic products accessible to end users.

• Education: Genome BC recognizes the need in our health care sector for providing formal and informal training to health care providers involved in the patient journey. We are well positioned to facilitate the development of tools to support health care providers in their daily practice, to demonstrate the role that genomics plays in their health and daily life and to engage in outreach efforts.
• Big Data: Genomics related disciplines generate an enormous amount of data which are challenging to integrate, aggregate, harmonize, and share. Data often sit in silos, stored within the confines of research institutions and laboratories. Genome BC is positioned to help lead this process and broker governance and policy support to ensure effective, secure and appropriate use of data.
• Capacity: Developing the infrastructure needed to enable the broad application of genomics technology also warrants extensive consideration. Such infrastructure includes data, biobanks, sequencing infrastructure, assay development, decision making tools, and highly qualified personnel (HQP) to interpret research findings and incorporate into the standard delivery of care. Genome BC can assist key stakeholders in BC to capitalize on this timely opportunity and envision the dissemination of genomic test results.
• Access: A broad variety of issues needs to be addressed for the successful implementation of precision health care, including the need for: harmonization of delivery mechanisms of genomic/genetic information such as policy development and economic evaluations; streamlining the evaluation and cost-benefit analysis process for genomics-derived tools; better coordinated informed consent and ethics approval pipelines between research institutions and hospitals; and regulations regarding patient privacy as advances in precision health care and machine learning can significantly increase our predictive abilities. Genome BC aspires to be the change agent that will assist the health system in the adoption of precision health.

• Conducting original research
• Engaging with stakeholders
• Evaluating existing and creating new tools
• Reviewing and suggesting policy and regulatory mechanisms that address issues in the four priority areas.

• Provide evidence to support innovate program design
• Generate evidence of effectiveness using integrated program data
• Performance measurement
• Support policy and program management decision using high quality research

• Data collection tool design and deployment
• Quantitative analysis
• Stakeholder engagement
• Research design
• Cost analysis

• Scoping reviews of national and international QIs, standards of practice and clinical guidelines.
• Identifying and/or developing relevant QI
• Developing a quality indicators framework for assessment and implementation
• Collaborating with multiple stakeholders, including healthcare professionals, academics, patient and family advisors, community partners, policy makers and health system operational leaders.
• Engaging panels of experts in Delphi or nominal group consensus processes.

• Jurisdictional Scans and Literature Review
• Policy Development, Analyses and Briefings
• Statistical Analyses (qualitative and quantitative)
• Program Evaluation
• Surveys and semi-structured interviews with stakeholders

1. build a community that strategically transforms cancer care;
2. translate evidence and data to inform priorities, practice, policy, and planning; and,
3. enhance experiences for patients and families, outcomes, and efficiencies.

• Reliable and timely data and information on patterns and trends of population health issues of significance and of health inequalities;
• Evidence-based policies and interventions to positively impact the population’s health.

• Communicable Diseases Prevention and Control (e.g. COVID-19 emergency and immunization)
• Psychoactive Substances Harm Prevention and Reduction (e.g. opioid crisis emergency, cannabis regulation, alcohol harm reduction)
• Environmental Health Protection (e.g. Drinking water protection, environmental contamination)
• Community Care Facilities Licensing (e.g. support for medical health officer role)
• Indigenous Health (e.g. Reconciliation, Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act implementation, indigenous health status reporting)
• Emergency Management
• Health inequalities
• Action on social determinants of health
• Injury surveillance and prevention
• Chronic disease surveillance and prevention, including congenital anomalies and developmental disabilities.

• Machine learning methods for enhancing chronic disease surveillance including mental health and substance misuse surveillance
• Spatio-temporal models for estimating population heath outcomes and risk factors in small areas or communities
• Burden of diseases (i.e., disability-adjusted life years) by cause and by risk factor in BC
• Population health impacts of climate change related exposures such as wildfire, associated air pollution, and extreme weather
• Unintended consequences of COVID
• pandemic response measures
• A systematic approach to surveillance and epidemiology to help strengthen our complex multi-team system in BC
• Other epidemiological research on etiology, disease patterns, and population health outcomes

• Create a systemwide culture of using implementation science to more effectively and efficiently implement innovations for scale and spread;
• Facilitate embedded implementation research and coordinate existing implementation assets in Alberta’s academic and health system ecosystems;
• Build linkages and secure commitment from health system stakeholders.

• Support theory-based implementation research projects, e.g. multi-site trials, fidelity documentation and analysis, economic, program, and impact evaluations;
• Analyze findings from provincial implementation research projects;
• Develop recommendations for scale, spread, and sustainability approaches across geographic and health delivery contexts.

• Integrated Care
• Workplace Health
• Upstream Health - Hospitals and Healthy Communities
• Health System Performance
• Health System Funding
• Implementation of Quality Standards (Hospital and Community Settings)
• Health System Flow & Capacity Planning

• Jurisdictional Scans and Literature Review
• Policy Development, Analyses and Briefings
• Statistical Analyses (qualitative and quantitative; includes health econometric analyses)
• Program Evaluation
• Surveys and semi-structured interviews with stakeholders
• Funding and Costing Methodologies

In alignment with the overarching mission and impact goals, potential priority areas for discussion and elaboration with candidates include:

• Overdose emergency response in BC
• Policy and planning for mental health and addictions, including a focus on children and youth, Indigenous populations, early intervention and prevention
• Mental health and addictions research, monitoring and policy evaluation

The Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions Service Plan (2019/20-2021/22) supports the BC Government's goal to deliver the services people count on. To this end, potential projects for discussion and elaboration with candidates may align with the following ministry goals:

1. Deliver an immediate, escalated response to the opioid overdose public health emergency that keeps people safe and improves the health and well-being of British Columbians; and
2. Create a seamless, accessible and culturally safe mental health and addictions system of care

• Children and Youth
• System integration
• Care in the community
• health economics

• Program implementation and evaluation
• Quantitative and qualitative data analysis
• Support development of strategy for sustainment of the program

The mission of the Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research (TRCHR) in the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre at UHN is to transform and dramatically improve the future of heart health. Its integrated program of research, education and clinical care aims to:

1. Provide the world with new diagnoses, treatments, and tools to help people prevent, manage, and survive the devastating consequences of heart failure.
2. Provide global leadership in the cardiac field and be a magnet for research and clinical talent.

As heart failure grows into a Canadian and global epidemic – projected to affected one in five people in Canada over 40 – new and innovative models of care are needed. TRCHR brings its unmatched breadth and depth of expertise, analytics and infrastructure, patient and community engagement together with research and clinical passion to find new ways to meet the staggering health, economic and societal burdens imposed by heart failure.

Through a strategic initiative known as TRANSFORM-Heart Failure, TRCHR aims to address the disparities in access and provision of care for structurally disadvantaged and geographically isolated groups. In a spirit of equity, partnership and co-leadership with Indigenous communities and patient partners, TRCHR is seeking to bring equitable access through technological advances in digital medicine, remote healthcare monitoring, data analytics and artificial intelligence. Together with Indigenous health expertise as well as user experience, implementation science, knowledge translation and health systems policy knowledge, TRANSFORM-HF hopes to create new models of care that are proactive, personalized and decentralized and that empower patients and communities to manage their health. Within the TRANSFORM-Heart Failure initiative, the experiential learning opportunity may comprise a variety of experiences and projects. As TRANSFORM-HF builds an international and multi-sectoral network dedicated to its aims, the HSIF may be engaged in enabling network expansion and vibrancy, in educational and training activities that deepen the competencies of researchers to address complex issues of health inequity, in collaborative projects that test and assess pilot technologies/programs, capture the learnings and propose new and innovative models. Throughout, opportunities exist to strengthen our partnership with those with lived experience (patients, families and caregivers) and Indigenous communities among other collaborators.

Within TRANSFORM-HF there are many projects to engage the fellow and his/her interests and expertise. Some examples to be explored:

• Environmental scanning on virtual care and telemedicine best practices and models, inclusion of community participatory research approaches, utilization of virtual care technologies across Canadian jurisdictions (including barriers, enablers).
• Policy analysis and briefings on emergent issues such as ethics and AI, ethics and virtual care, health care systems design and implementation.
• Stakeholder consultations and relationship-management across the breadth of programming (e.g., patient support sessions, strategies to engage patient in research as collaborators, leaders and participants, network development and mobilization).
• KT strategy development and execution to build and expand the community of investigators and interested partners in TRANSFORM-HF (e.g., planning and executing workshops, training sessions, our annual Symposium). Fellow could be involved in all stages from planning to execution to evaluation.
• Indigenous health and cultural safety are critical components of our training program. Opportunities to work with Indigenous partners and scholars in delivering programmatic activities as well as strengthening overall equity, diversity and inclusion approaches within the initiative.
• Patient engagement to help translate our research and clinical activities into meaningful impacts for patients, families and caregivers as well as develop tools, resources or workshops for this audience.
• Evaluation and performance measurement of TRANSFORM-HF activities.

Post-doctoral fellows only

The Peter Gilgan Centre for Women’s Cancers seeks to identify key barriers and enablers to implementing cancer screening for patients experiencing marginalization, from the primary care provider perspective. Our goal is ultimately to develop, implement and evaluate evidence-based cancer screening strategies for primary care providers providing care for marginalized patients.

Strategic priorities of this work include:

• Liaising with a broad range of primary care providers to understand barriers and enablers
• Synthesizing findings
• Ideating on solutions
• Prioritizing sustainability

Qualitative research, user-centred design, co-design, stakeholder consultation, implementation science, health equity research, primary care engagement, knowledge translation

Either / both

• produce more timely and responsive statistics, produce more timely and responsive statistics,
• develop and release more granular statistics,
• raise awareness of Statistics Canada data,
• provide leadership and expertise in strengthening the national statistical system.

• Stakeholder consultation: Working with the Statistics Canada team, facilitate stakeholder consultation with strategic partners and stakeholders to identify priority data needs
• Environmental scanning: Review Statistics Canada’s data assets to facilitate the identification of indicator development potential.
• Quantitative data analysis: Working with relevant data teams, support indicator development work at Statistics Canada.

• Develop a community-informed organizational research agenda, applying a social/Indigenous determinants of health lens
• Systems-level, community-informed analysis of health/social services
• Develop a performance measurement framework grounded in Gwich’in culture and values
• Develop training/orientation modules, based in research data and Gwich’in community story, to support cultural safety in the health system

• Program evaluation
• Data collection, literature reviews and/or data analysis related to aspects of social/Indigenous determinants of health
• Community and partner consultation and needs assessments
• Presentations and report writing
• Proposal writing
• Knowledge translation
• Development and implementation of materials and activities as part of GTC health and wellness programming

1. Best practices in hospital organization and operations, including implementation and evaluation of strategies to:
   1. reduce actual vs. estimated length of stay,
   2. improve transitions in care and reduce hospital readmission rates.
2. Identify and build of mechanisms for system and provider level audit/feedback reporting and education in target areas to realize health system improvement.
3. Identification of key quality indicators through engagement of experts in a Delphi or group consensus process, development of a quality indicator framework for assessment and implementation.

• A core function of the IWC is to develop mechanisms to routinely develop, implement, evaluate and spread innovations with direct impact on improving Indigenous health
• Leading focused innovations inclusive of operational best practice strategies occurring across the organization
• Facilitate innovation that improves culturally appropriate, high quality, safe care that is cost-effective and sustainable to advance Indigenous health and reduce the health inequities experienced by Indigenous peoples and their communities

• Writing and synthesizing models for primary health care to reduce health inequities and development of a robust program of research/evaluation to understand the broad impacts of the newly erected virtual primary care clinics for Indigenous Peoples in Alberta.
• Indigenous Health Data Ecosystem development and refinement focused on four pillars: Relationships that respect Indigenous data self-determination; Indigenous Approaches to the development of community-led health and wellbeing indicators, metrics and evaluation approaches; Capacity Strengthening; and Organizational Foundations in Learning and Coordination.

Emergency Strategic Clinical Network, Alberta Health Services
Alberta
Dr. Patrick McLane
780-293-5057

The Emergency Strategic Clinical Network (SCN) is a group of health care professionals and patients working together across the province to improve emergency services in Alberta.

Priority areas for the Emergency SCN are Patient Experience, Addressing the Opioid Use Disorder Crisis, Integrating Research for Better Outcomes, Health Equity, Staff Safety and Health System Integration (i.e. Patient Flow).

Current key areas of work include Emergency Care in the Pandemic Context, Geriatric Emergency Medicine, Partnered Research to Improve First Nations Members’ Emergency Department Care, Supporting Initiation of Opioid Agonist Treatment in Emergency Departments for Opioid Use Disorder, and Violence Prevention in Emergency Departments. Telehealth is an emerging area of interest.

The Emergency SCN has capacity two support two postdoctoral fellows, one position is open in scope and one is limited to quantitative research. The Emergency SCN seeks productive postdoctoral fellows with strong theoretically informed backgrounds in health systems research, clinical epidemiology, biostatistics, analytics, and/or social determinants of health.

For the open scope fellowship, a well-rounded understanding of qualitative and quantitative research principles is a requirement. Knowledge of implementation science frameworks would be an asset. Focus of the postdoctoral work for the open scope position should align with the priority areas of addressing the opioid use disorder crisis or health equity. In either case, the postdoctoral fellow will develop and evaluate education and resources (e.g. order sets, referral pathways, quality checklists) to allow emergency departments to better address the needs of marginalized patient groups (e.g. women, chronically ill, low income, remote, Indigenous, and/or underhoused).

For the quantitative postdoctoral position, knowledge of inferential statistics and experience utilizing administrative data is required. The quantitative position will focus on standardizing and analyzing a suite of measures related emergency departments.

The Health Systems Impact Fellow will lead, facilitate and support the development and refinement of research questions and methods within the Emergency SCN. Fellowship output will include opportunities to disseminate to academic, clinical, operational, and lay audiences to inform local and provincial policy, procedures and decision-making in an evolving learning health system. There will be opportunity to collaborate with academic Emergency Medicine programs at the University of Alberta and University of Calgary.

Post-doctoral Fellow

Humber River Hospital’s research priorities focus on ways to improve healthcare delivery by leveraging the best existing technology, while designing and building the digital healthcare technologies of the future. The fellow will be able to contribute to existing research initiatives, while also developing their own research projects.

Humber River Hospital’s research focus is around digital healthcare and the use of technology to improve patient care. This includes: - Data analytic approaches to optimizing healthcare delivery - Innovations in data visualization and healthcare data presentation - Technology-mediated decision aids and educational tools - AI/predictive models for patient identification

The fellow will engage in all aspects of digital healthcare research, from conceptualization to implementation and knowledge translation. The fellow will also have the ability to develop and lead their own line of research within digital healthcare.

Post-doctoral fellows only

• To support data- and evidence-informed transformations at all levels of the health system through synthesizing evidence about problems, improvement options and implementation considerations;
• To promote rapid, effective implementation of projects, and support spread, scale and sustainability, through producing relevant and rigorous evidence syntheses about interventions in high-priority clinical areas.

This offers a unique opportunity to work within the healthcare system to:

• Lead rapid, rigorous evidence synthesis projects, relevant to health system priorities;
• Evaluate the role of evidence in selecting system improvement interventions;
• Build linkages between the evidence synthesis and implementation science communities, to ensure optimal impact on patient outcomes.

• Humanitarian response
• Health in emergency
• Epidemic/Pandemic readiness and response
• Reproductive, Maternal, newborn, adolescent and child health

• Qualitative and Quantitative data analysis (baseline/end line survey data, continuous monitoring data)
• Environmental screening
• Literature review to establish best practices
• Policy briefing Modeling and forecasting for Health in emergency

• Planning, implementation, and evaluation
• Service Delivery and Operations
• Indigenous Health and Cultural Safety
• Continuous Quality Improvement
• Policy and Enterprise Risk

• Environmental scanning
• Develop readiness criteria for the implementation of service networks
• Engage key partners to develop an evaluation plan and indicators framework for assessment and implementation
• Support qualitative and quantitative Implementation Science research
• Research outcomes will inform decision making and policies

• Innovation within the cancer care system (electronic tools that improve navigation and patient support)
• Improving the patient experience throughout the cancer care continuum (enhanced communication and information exchange)
• Ensuring system sustainability though health system implementation and organizational change
• Improving the care of under-served populations
• Enhancing health services research methodology and impact

• Stakeholder engagement
• Project management alongside Project Management Professionals
• Core Research Team Participation.
• Knowledge Translation
• Participate in project leadership
• Quantitative and qualitative research analysis
• Impact assessment
• Economic evaluation

1. the challenges of living/working with disabilities to enable return-to-work.
2. workplace retention
3. workplace mental health
4. EDI in the workplace
5. community re-engagement
6. the impact of covid-19 in the workplace

1. Research coordination
2. Project management and evaluation
3. Knowledge translation
4. data collection, analysis, synthesis, and reporting
5. logic modelling
6. Stakeholder consultation
7. Market positioning

See HSIF for more details on the HSIF Equitable AI Stream.

• Development of decision support tools for surveillance and management of infectious diseases threats at federal and provincial levels, including pandemic preparedness and response;
• Investigate applications of machine learning (ML) and –omics for the study and control of infectious disease.

• Big data research for EO and health data (e.g. Natural Language Processing, ML);
• Communication of model and system outputs to stakeholders (e.g. dashboards);
• Automated risk assessments (e.g. synthesis of qualitative and quantitative data);
• ML and data analytics for applications in CIDTs, AMR prediction, risk association, source attribution, and outbreak detection.

• Clinical Practice Guideline Development
• Recommendations for Needs assessments
• Designing and implementing research projects to assess practice implications/changes of health care professionals in response to new evidence
• Advocacy and policy
• Healthcare provider and public education
• Education approaches and technologies
• Supporting research through partnerships

• Literature reviews and evidence synthesis for key issues in the area of women’s health (i.e., endometriosis, pre-eclampsia, maternal mortality, reproductive technologies, health equity, sexual health, substance use, HPV, COVID-19, etc)
• Statistical analysis of data from impact of clinical practice guidelines, training and education initiatives including Global Women’s Health
• Designing public health messaging and campaigns for healthcare providers and the public
• Survey design, implementation and results analysis
• Development of policy briefings
• Evaluation practice recommendations, policy recommendations and educational initiatives

Located within the Nursing and Allied Health Research and Knowledge Translation provincial portfolio, the HSIF will have the unique opportunity to engage with a broad range of stakeholders including clinicians, researchers, leaders in health policy and service delivery, knowledge users, and patient and family partners.

The HSIF will lead, facilitate and support the development of research and knowledge mobilization initiatives aimed at enhancing the capacity for equity-oriented cancer care in BC. Work may include:

Environmental scan; evidence review and synthesis; qualitative and quantitative data analysis; policy analysis; stakeholder consultation; program and service evaluation; and employing innovative knowledge mobilization strategies tailored to the knowledge needs of health system decision makers and practice and policy audiences.

The fellow will be involved in priority areas of interest that may include:

• Scoping reviews of national and international patient partnership quality indicators, standards of practice, clinical guidelines, and policies.
• Identifying and developing patient partnership quality indicators.
• Developing a quality indicators framework for assessment and implementation
• Collaborating with a wide variety of stakeholders, including patient partners, researchers, trainers, managers, and health system operational leaders.
• Quantitative or qualitative analysis, including methodology development Fellowship output will include opportunities to disseminate to academic, clinical, operational, and lay audiences to inform local and provincial policy, procedures and decision-making in an evolving learning health system. (Fellowship could be done in French or English)

The HSIF will lead, facilitate and support the development of research and knowledge mobilization initiatives aimed at enhancing the capacity for equity-oriented cancer care in BC. Work may include:

Environmental scan; evidence review and synthesis; qualitative and quantitative data analysis; policy analysis; stakeholder consultation; program and service evaluation; and employing innovative knowledge mobilization strategies tailored to the knowledge needs of health system decision makers and practice and policy audiences.