Programme de bourses d'impact sur le système de santé : outil d'établissement de liens pour les organismes partenaires

• Providing evidence to promote best-practices and using data to drive quality improvement are priorities for AFHTO’s Research.
• AFHTO envisions that every Ontarian will have access to equitable, high-quality, comprehensive, cost-effective, integrated team-based care, leading to better outcomes for patients and communities, while reducing the burden on hospitals and emergency departments.

• Building and demonstrating value of team-based care through evidence/data to support advocacy to lead transformation and advancement of primary care.
• Supporting members to adopt a health equity lens aligned with health system transformation objectives.
• Leveraging the benefits of effective and standardized data-collection and analysis to demonstrate value and evidence-based care.

• Développement de modèles intégrés et concertés de gouvernance et gestion de proximité;
• Collaboration intersectorielle et partenariat avec la communauté
• Participation citoyenne et patient partenaire
• Équité
• Agir sur les déterminants sociaux de la santé
• Transformation et changement organisationnel

• Accompagnement du groupe de travail sur la gouvernance locale concertée
• Conception et élaboration d’un modèle de gouvernance de proximité
• Développement d’un plan de consultation multisectorielle (partenaires, citoyens, patients)
• Soutien à l’élaboration d’un plan de changement organisationnel et de communication
• Contribution au déploiement, à l’implantation et à l’évaluation du modèle

• Supporting the shift from solo to team-based care
• Engaging health care partners across sectors
• Facilitating the spread of best practices among clinics
• Strengthening data collection, use, and sharing
• Evaluating team-based primary care implementation and outcomes

• Interest-holder engagement and intersectoral collaboration
• Advancing team-based primary care through applied research and shared learning
• Design and execution of program and impact evaluations
• Quantitative and qualitative data analysis (EMR, admin data, interviews)
• Development of policy briefings and knowledge translation products

The Canadian Health Leadership Network (CHLNet) in partnership with the Institute for Better Health, Trillium Health Partners the University of Toronto is moving forward work to champion strategic leadership excellence that advances Learning Health Systems.

CHLNet's priority areas include:

1. Leadership Practices for the 21st Century to Transform Health Systems
2. Anti-Racism and Social Justice to Achieve Effective, Diverse and Inclusive Leadership
3. Identifying Leadership Styles and Behaviours that Promote Supportive Workplaces and Workforce Wellness
4. Climate Conscious Leadership Practices for a Sustainable Health System

1. Advance the Impact of Health Leadership
   • Co-design pan-Canadian research agenda to integrate practical relevance with scientific inquiry
2. Demonstrate Why Leadership Matters
   • Leverage and integrate data from work—such as the CHLNet Benchmarking Study, LEADS Refresh, and LHS Competency work—to quantify the value and ROI of leadership
3. Enable System Impact
   • Design and mobilize leadership tools for LHS

The OurCare initiative at MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions was the largest public engagement on primary care in Canadian history. Over 16 months, we heard from nearly 10,000 people about what they wanted in a better system. We distilled what we learned into the OurCare Standard — six statements that describe what every person in Canada should be able to expect from the primary care system. The embedded postdoctoral fellow will work with researchers at MAP to translate the OurCare Standard into policy.

The OurCare Standard distills what we heard summarizes what every person in Canada should be able to expect from the primary care system and Integrating the OurCare Standard into policy is one of five strategic components designed to build on this momentum and move Canada closer to the goal of achieving 100% attachment to primary care. This component focuses on translating the OurCare Standard into practice and driving system-level change. Priority areas include:

• Translating the OurCare Standard into actionable strategies at the macro, meso, and micro levels
• Creating a comprehensive roadmap for implementing the OurCare Standard across Canada
• Providing evidence-informed guidance to help stakeholders in different jurisdictions advance the Standard
• Supporting implementation and action on the OurCare Standard in Ontario and across the country.

• Development of performance measures
• Analysis of quantitative and qualitative data
• Stakeholder engagement to understand and advance regional action
• Case studies of bright spots nationally and internationally
• Evidence-informed policy briefs
• Public communication

The OMA's priority areas are outlined in "Prescription for Ontario: Doctors' 5-Point Plan for Better Health Care". The five areas are:

• Reduce wait times and the backlog of services
• Expand mental health and addiction services in the community
• Improve home care and other community care
• Strengthen public health and pandemic preparedness
• Give every patient a team of health-care providers and link them digitally

More information is available at: Advocacy - Ontario Medical Association (en anglais seulement).

PHO provides expert scientific and technical expertise and conducts applied research in the following areas:

• Chronic disease prevention
• Diseases of public health significance
• Emergency preparedness and response
• Environmental and occupational health
• Health promotion
• Immunization
• Infection prevention and control
• Injury prevention
• Knowledge exchange
• Microbiology and genomics
• Public health informatics

The fellow may engage in a variety of tasks related to the embedded program of work determined. Examples include:

• Conducting knowledge syntheses
• Analyzing data and interpreting results
• Applying AI methods to address public health challenges
• Preparing knowledge mobilization activities for a variety of audiences
• Contributing to the development of strategy in the priority area

The four research priorities of NHKI are:

1. Clinical Research Programs - to provide patient equitable access to innovative therapies through participation in clinical studies.
2. Building Capacity for Research in Community Hospitals in Canada
3. Patient Experience
4. Care for Older Persons

The three pillars of NHKI are:

1. Knowledge Generation
2. Knowledge Mobilization
3. Capacity Building.

The embedded work that the fellow(s) can engage in would include:

1. Strategy Development
2. Interested and Affected Partner Consultation
3. Environmental Scanning
4. Quantitative Data Analysis
5. Qualitative Data Analysis
6. Literature Reviews
7. Program Evaluation

The IFA focuses on several key areas to advance the well-being of older adults, with attention to cross sectoral issues and in alignment with the WHO Decade on Healthy Ageing. This includes:

• Addressing age-based discrimination and promoting the rights of older individuals
• Fostering healthy ageing and promoting health across the life course
• Promoting access to and uptake of adult vaccination
• Addressing vision and hearing health
• Age-Friendly Environments
• Advocating for quality Long-Term Care
• Addressing inequalities

The fellow will have the opportunity to engage in a range of strategic areas that may include:

• Influencing international and national policies to reflect the needs of ageing populations.
• Conducting environmental scans and disseminating findings to inform best practices.
• Hosting small group and public forums to share knowledge and foster collaboration.
• Collaborating with organizations such as the WHO and UN to align efforts and amplify impact.
• Raising awareness on issues affecting older adults through various social media and public initiatives.
• Developing training and resources to stakeholders to enhance knowledge, service delivery and advocacy efforts.

• Advancing health equity by integrating housing and health services
• Building an innovative system of care for supported housing
• Enabling data-driven, population health planning and continuous improvement
• Supporting a learning health system aligned with VCH's vision of healthy lives in healthy communities and pillars of People, Innovation, Excellence, and Accountability

• System mapping of supported housing and embedded health services
• Population segmentation using linked administrative and health data
• Design and implementation of a community of practice for nurses and frontline staff in supported housing
• Equity-oriented quality improvement in collaboration with VCH's internal QI team
• Program evaluation and modeling for needs-based planning

The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) provides comparable and actionable data and information that are used to accelerate improvements in health care, health system performance and population health across Canada. Our stakeholders use our broad range of health system databases, measurements and standards, together with our evidence-based reports and analyses, in their decision-making processes.

Better data, better decisions, healthier Canadians: powered by a shared sense of purpose, the highest standards of excellence and trust.

The world's best health systems are powered by data. There is a need for pan-Canadian health data that is trusted, connected, accessible, timely, contextualized, comprehensive and — most importantly — as relevant as possible for those who rely on it to make decisions: patients, families, providers, researchers, innovators, administrators and policy-makers in Canada.

True transformation requires 3 significant efforts:

1. Transformation of the health data ecosystem
2. Commitment to Indigenous health priorities
3. Modernization of CIHI as an organization.

Types of work include the following broad areas:

• Acute and Ambulatory Care Information
• Advanced Analytics
• Classifications and Terminologies
• Data Governance
• Equity
• Health System Analytics
• Health Workforce Information
• Indicator development in focused areas (health workforce, primary healthcare, mental health and substance use, aging care, digital health)
• Indigenous Health
• Patient Engagement
• Pharmaceuticals
• Specialized Care
• Spending, Primary Care

The Gattuso Centre for Social Medicine has an array of care programs for which evaluation and research is underway or planned. These include: social medicine supportive housing, social medicine care model (including AI prediction methods for early intervention), peer support workers in the emergency department, an emergency department diversion program for intoxicated individuals, community-based food security program, eviction prevention, and mobile health clinics. Health system impact fellows can anticipate opportunities to contribute to the following research activities:

• Scoping, systematic, or realist reviews
• Secondary analysis of quantitative administrative health data
• Implementation and summative program evaluation
• Community-based mixed-methods research
• Presentation of research and evaluation findings to internal and external audiences
• Academic manuscript preparation and publication

BORN wants to advance the safe collection, storage and use of sociodemographic and social determinants of health (SD/SDH) data, by:

• Building relationships and enhance engagement with Black communities.
• Improving the collection of SD/SDH data for Black birthing individuals and newborns in Ontario.
• Mobilizing data, in partnership with communities, to facilitate equitable maternal-child health outcomes.

The Fellow will:

• Engage with Black communities and community-based organizations on research topics important to these communities.
• Co-design and evaluate implementation pilots for the safe collection and use of SD/SDH data.
• Guide the implementation of BORN's SD/SDH governance policy and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Co-design and evaluate enhancements to improve care and health outcomes for Black individuals.

Strategic priorities include:

• Using administrative data to segment populations who are under-screened for cancer, moving beyond well-documented broad categories such as people living with low income or people who are immigrants.
• Generating insights to inform precision public health strategies and guide targeted, equity-driven interventions to improve screening access and outcomes.

• Epidemiology
• Secondary data analysis
• Health equity research
• Manuscript writing
• Knowledge translation

Statistic’s Canada’s priority areas are specific to child health and wellness and will be in alignment with one or all of the three strategic research areas of One Child Every Child (OCEC). These shared strategic research areas are:

• Better Beginnings, exploring the health and wellbeing of mothers and children
• Precision Health, improving diagnosis and treatment for children with chronic and medically complex illnesses
• Vulnerable to Thriving investigating how to help children with neurodevelopmental and mental health conditions.

While the scope of tasks and responsibilities may be individualized, we are interested in candidates with skills and experience in:

• Secondary Analysis of Socio Economic and Social Determinants of Health Data specific to Child Health and Wellness
• Analyzing linked data among health and non-health databases (taxes, justice, education)
• Environmental scan of data sources and databases related to child health and wellness specific to the Statistics Canada and OCEC shared strategic research themes
• Quantitative data analysis of existing child health clinical survey and administrative and population based databases

L'INESSS a pour mission de promouvoir l'excellence clinique et l'utilisation efficace des ressources dans le secteur de la santé et des services sociaux.

Pour réaliser ses évaluations, l'Institut mobilise les données publiées dans la littérature scientifique, celles issues des milieux de soins et services telles les données clinico-administratives, de même que les connaissances et les expériences des personnes concernées, comme les professionnel(le)s et gestionnaires du réseau ainsi que les patient(e)s, usagers, usagères et proches aidant(e)s, dans une perspective d'amélioration des soins et services à la population.

L'une des priorités organisationnelles de l'INESSS, qui compte sur les compétences de près de 300 employés, est d'assurer le développement de son expertise interne afin de bien remplir sa mission d'aide à la décision, et ceci, en temps opportun.

À cette fin, ses trois directions scientifiques réalisent des mandats d'évaluation dans les domaines du médicament, des services de santé et des services sociaux. Ces trois domaines requièrent des compétences de pointe sur une grande diversité d'objets, incluant :

• Direction de l'évaluation des médicaments et des technologies à des fins de remboursement

  1. Biologie médicale
  2. Évaluation des médicaments aux fins d'inscription
  3. Évaluation des technologies innovantes en santé
  4. Produits des systèmes de sang du Québec
  5. Thérapies complexes

• Direction de l'évaluation et du soutien à l'amélioration des modes d'interventions – services sociaux et santé mentale

  1. Jeunes et familles
  2. Santé mentale
  3. Dépendance et itinérance
  4. Soutien à l'autonomie des personnes âgées
  5. Déficience physique, déficience intellectuelle, trouble du spectre de l'autisme
  6. Services sociaux généraux

• Direction de l'évaluation et de la pertinence des modes d'intervention en santé

  1. Cancérologie
  2. Trajectoires de soins chrono-sensibles
  3. Dépistage des maladies chroniques
  4. Modes d'intervention en santé
  5. Usage optimal du médicament et des modes d'intervention
  6. Protocoles médicaux nationaux et ordonnances associées
  7. Amélioration continue en première ligne
  8. Pertinence, actes à faible valeur, imagerie

L'Institut a identifié le sujet prioritaire suivant : consolider l'intégration des méthodes d'analyses économiques dans ses processus de production scientifique.

Le projet visé s'appuiera sur les compétences de recherche en économie de la santé du ou de la candidat(e) pour aider l'INESSS à mieux appuyer les capacités méthodologiques de ses équipes scientifiques.

Les processus d'évaluation et les processus délibératifs de l'INESSS sont structurés autour d'un cadre multidimensionnel d'appréciation de la valeur, tel que décrit dans son Énoncé de principes et de fondements éthiques [ PDF (1,2 Mo) - lien externe ].

Ce cadre comprend une dimension économique qui est bien intégrée dans les évaluations du médicament à des fins de remboursement, en s'appuyant notamment sur des expertises en pharmaco-économie. La dimension économique pose cependant des défis pour d'autres secteurs d'évaluation (p. ex., modes d'intervention complexes en santé mentale ou santé physique).

En travaillant de concert avec l'équipe du Bureau – Méthodologies et éthique de l'INESSS, la personne retenue mènera son projet d'apprentissage et d'intégration des compétences dans le cadre d'un projet mené au sein de l'une de nos Directions scientifiques (voir la colonne de gauche).

La personne retenue visera à atteindre les objectifs suivants :

• Mener un projet novateur de développement méthodologique en analyse économique qui soutienne la mission de l'INESSS;
• Ancrer les apprentissages issus de ce projet de développement méthodologique dans une évaluation en cours ou récemment complétée par la Direction retenue de l'INESSS;
• Élaborer un outil de formation et d'accompagnement pour les professionnel(le)s scientifiques ne détenant pas une formation formelle en économie.

Pour y arriver, le ou la candidat(e) mettra en application plusieurs compétences spécifiques en économie de la santé et s'appuiera sur une connaissance générale des :

• Méthodes mixtes de consultation des parties prenantes
• Méthodes d'évaluation quantitatives
• Analyse et synthèse des données probantes

La personne retenue sera soutenue par un duo de gestionnaires expérimentés en matière de méthodologie et d'évaluation.

Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research (Peter Munk Cardiac Centre at UHN)
Ontario
Anne Simard
anne.simard@uhn.ca
647-297-1498

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:

• Provide the world with new diagnoses, treatments, and tools to help people prevent, manage, and survive the devastating consequences of heart failure.
• 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 affect 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.

• Bring equitable access through technological advances in digital medicine, remote healthcare monitoring, data analytics and artificial intelligence.
• co- create new models of care that are proactive, personalized and decentralized and that empower patients and communities to manage their health.
• Develop, assess and evaluate patient and community engagement strategies to change patient outcomes and experiences.
• Explore and understand dimensions of health inequities in HF prevention, care, and patient outcomes/experiences with providers, organizations and health systems. Visit Digital Innovation for Heart Failure Care

Some examples to be explored:

• Environmental scanning and/or literature reviews 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.
• Qualitative or quantitative analyses of HF interventions, treatments, patients PROMs/PREMs as part of research studies within the TRCHR
• 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.

Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) Centre for Evidence-Based Implementation (CEBI)
Ontario
Karen Mosleh
spithokd@mcmaster.ca

Gaps frequently exist between what is known from research evidence and what is done in clinical practice. CEBI was established to advance healthcare through research and education to improve outcomes and experiences for patients and their families. CEBI aims to optimize the use of research to produce better solutions to health-related challenges in the Hamilton Health Sciences region, the province, and beyond.

Potential priority areas of interest could include (but are not limited to) virtual care, mHealth, health services research, knowledge mobilization, and systems of care for follow-up.

Examples:

• Implementation of a follow-up strategy for ST elevation myocardial infarction
• Smartphone app implementation for communication between healthcare professionals
• HIV treatment and prevention clinic model evaluation

For further examples of CEBI projects and publications, please see hhscebi.ca.

The nature of the work may include all aspects of implementation and knowledge mobilization. For example:

• Protocol development
• REB application
• Stakeholder consultation
• Environmental scanning
• Literature reviews
• Quantitative and qualitative data analysis
• Implementation and sustainability planning
• Program evaluation
• Impact assessment
• Conference presentations
• Manuscript writing
• Teaching sessions about knowledge mobilization
• Contribution to grant proposals and applications

• Rehabilitation of Canadians with neurological conditions (e.g. spinal cord injury) which are associated with high levels of disabilities.
• Use of healthcare data to support rehabilitation service planning.
• Collaboration with provincial health system and national agencies (e.g. Praxis Spinal Cord Institute) in the creation of spinal cord injury database frameworks.

• Literature review and environmental scanning
• Consultation with provincial and national stakeholders
• Analysis of administrative health data, electronic medical records
• Framework development to calculate prevalence and incidence of non-traumatic spinal cord injury
• Impact assessment of non-traumatic spinal cord injury based on incidence and prevalence
• Strategic rehabilitation service planning with healthcare leadership

• Community-based participatory research
• Indigenous research priorities and methodologies
• Training and educating northern stakeholders and research partners
• Knowledge translation and mobilization
• Climate change
• Health services research
• Food security
• Social determinants of health
• Health equity

• Strategy development
• Stakeholder engagement and consultation
• Environmental scanning
• Quantitative or qualitative data analysis
• Literature reviews
• Policy briefings
• Program evaluation
• Impact assessment

In alignment with the overarching mission and impact goals, the following priority areas have been designated as options for this fellowship competition:

• Primary and Community Care
• Wait Time Reduction
• Seniors Care
• Pharmaceutical Services
• Mental Health and Addictions
• Maternal and child health care
• Cultural safety, diversity and inclusion
• Population and Public Health
• Other related disciplines

• Optimization of data storage and practical access for clinical care
• Human resources
• Optimization of recruitment and retention of allied health care and nursing staff
• Quality improvement
• focus on quality improvement indicators
• Mental Health and Addictions
• Cancer Solutions
• Cardiovascular health
• Indigenous Health
• Critical care research
• Surgical Research
• Anesthesia Research

Priority areas of interest include (but are not limited to):

1. Long-Term Care
   1. Information-sharing solutions
   2. Data platform for quality improvement (QI) and evaluation
2. Hospital and transitional care-based geriatric care
   1. Frailty, dementia and/or medication optimization interventions
   2. Scorecard metrics development for EPIC-based EHR data.
3. Community-based housing and health
   1. Integrated care models for vulnerable populations living in congregate settings
   2. Evaluation of housing and health policies and programs
4. Home and community care
   1. Oral health and/or medication optimization interventions in home care settings

• Work with CIC scientific leads on one or more priority area
• Opportunity to lead substantive projects employing quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods
• Gain experience in stakeholder engagement and partnership, academic and policy-focused communication, knowledge translation, networking, etc.
• Contribute toward developing CIC strategic directions and research programs

Assets include:

• Knowledge of sector-specific issues and dynamics
• Experience working with health system partners
• Quantitative analytical data experience
• Artificial intelligence and related GPT tools

The successful applicant will support OECD countries by analysing policies to improve the performance and resilience of health systems, focussing on one among the following:

1. strengthening the health care workforce;
2. modernising health systems through digital transformation and stronger patient centeredness;
3. reducing gaps for gender and health

Using comparative policy analysis, indicators development, and modelling techniques to support:

• Resilience and preparedness
• Patient centeredness
• Improving care safety and quality
• Digital transformation of health systems
• Modernising health workforce and delivery models
• Public health and prevention
• Health and climate change
• Gender and health
• Strengthening long-term care
• Pharmaceutical markets transparency

The successful applicant will:

• Take part in the analyses of selected health policies;
• Draft analytic, statistical and policy-relevant reports;
• Summarize the state of existing knowledge in a form readily accessible to policy makers;
• Engage in consultations with countries experts and policy makers;
• Perform quantitative or qualitative data analysis.

One of Canada’s 2022 Top 40 Research Hospitals, Vitalité Health Network is a regional health authority providing health services in New-Brunswick. The fellow will contribute their expertise to support integration of evidence-based best practices into clinical activities to address complex healthcare challenges and to change the way health systems implement and sustain integrated care interventions.

• Primary care
• Patient flow
• Learning Health Systems
• Senior health
• Mental health

• Provide support to the organization’s goal of becoming a Learning Health System that enables rapid implementation, evaluation, spread, scale, and sustainability of effective and equitable integrated care interventions to achieve the quintuple aim (i.e., improved outcomes for patients, providers, health system, population health, and health equity).
• Review of evidence-based best practices relevant to health system priorities

En tant que centre d'expertise et de référence en matière de santé publique au Québec, notre objectif est de faire progresser les connaissances et les compétences, de proposer des stratégies ainsi que des actions intersectorielles susceptibles d'améliorer l'état de santé et le bien-être de la population. Nos stagiaires auront l'occasion de faire partie d'un réseau pancanadien de boursiers et boursières qui œuvrent pour la préparation et la réponse aux urgences sanitaires dans les provinces canadiennes. Pour en savoir plus sur l'objectif du volet cofinancé par le CRPPUS, cliquez ici.

Le projet devrait porter sur les grandes tendances qui auront un impact sur la santé publique :

1. Progression des disparités structurelles et des inégalités sociales,
2. Vieillissement de la population
3. Migration des populations et diversification démographique
4. Changements climatiques
5. Augmentation de la fréquence et de l’ampleur des menaces et urgences sanitaires, notamment de nature infectieuse et environnementale
6. Changements sociétaux associés à la transformation technologique et informationnelle
7. Transformation du monde du travail.
8. Nous souhaitons aussi développer des expertises en matière d’analyse économique en santé publique, d’implication des parties prenantes et de participation citoyenne.

Dans la perspective de former une relève de qualité, la personne stagiaire bénéficiera d’un encadrement personnalisé pour développer ou perfectionner ses compétences à l’interface des connaissances et des pratiques en soutien à la santé publique à travers cinq domaines d’activité :

1. Services spécialisés de laboratoire
2. Surveillance et vigie
3. Synthèse et transfert des connaissances
4. Recherche et développement
5. Évaluation quantitative, qualitative ou mixte.

La personne stagiaire pourra ainsi appliquer ses connaissances théoriques en santé publique, en traitement, analyse et interprétation de données, en planification et évaluation de politiques et de programmes, en partenariats et collaboration, en diversité et inclusion, en communication et diffusion de l’information et enfin en leadership.

Potential areas for innovation in primary health care include (but are not limited to): 

• Improving access to care (e.g., unattached population) and timeliness of care
• Addressing non-medical determinants of health (e.g., social prescribing, team-based care)
• System foundations (e.g., models of care to support comprehensive care needs, longitudinal continuity of care, integration of social and community services)
• Seamless patient care and integration of services: Improving patient experience and flow when accessing health services (e.g., rurality, virtual care, social and community based services)
• Primary healthcare sustainability

We welcome individuals with diverse research and evaluation experiences and backgrounds. Examples of work include:

• Modernizing primary health care service delivery and policy in Alberta to address population health needs
• Using a population health approach for research, evaluation and implementation
• Engaging provincial primary care providers, patients and service partners on care experiences, health system challenges, and implementation considerations. 
• Care integration (e.g., between primary care and social and community services)

The Data Science Program is Manitoba's lead agency for data science, supporting departments across Manitoba in using advanced data analytics to inform decision-making.

The project aims to develop transformer-based models to support cutting edge analysis on administrative health data.

• Apply cutting-edge machine learning models, including transformers, to produce evidence for use by decision and policy makers.
• Understanding the varied life-courses of Manitobans and their interactions with the healthcare system.

• The Fellow will design, lead, and implement the creation of pipelines which extract additional meaning and context from health administrative records.
• The Fellow will be embedded in an interdisciplinary group of computational experts in Manitoba Health's in-house R&D lab and work directly with health system leaders and external project partners.

The Data Science Program is Manitoba's lead agency for data science, supporting departments across Manitoba in using advanced data analytics to inform decision-making.

The project aims to improve the prediction and management of respiratory illness presentations at the ED, to enhance patient outcomes and optimize resource allocation within the healthcare system.

• Identify and integrate relevant health data, including historical ED visits, air quality indices, wastewater systems, and demographic information, among others.
• Develop and validate predictive models for respiratory-related ED visits and admissions using advanced statistical and machine learning techniques.
• Establish monitoring protocols to ensure continuous improvement and adaptation.

• The fellow will curate and validate a comprehensive forecasting dataset from various sources, including health data repositories and other relevant organizations.
• The fellow will lead the development of a robust prediction model, evaluate its performance, and integrate it into the health system's decision-making processes.

• Generate RWE on innovative pharmacological and technological interventions to address health inequities.
• Evaluate comprehensive intervention effectiveness, including socio-economic and demographic factors around differential effectiveness/outcomes.
• Develop measures of systemic effectiveness for innovative health technologies and treatments at a population level.
• Establish a research agenda for RWE in Manitoba

• The Fellow will be embedded in an interdisciplinary group of computational experts in Manitoba Health's in-house R&D lab and work directly with health system leaders and external project partners.
• The Fellow will design, lead, and implement quantitative research projects which shape strategic decisions within the health system.
  

BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services (BCMHSUS), under the Provincial Health Services Authority, provides provincial specialized assessment and treatment services for people with complex care needs, including (1) those with mental health, substance use, and/or development disability, (2) those involved in the forensic psychiatric system, and (3) and those who are incarcerated in provincial correctional centres.

In addition to its clinical mandate, BCMHSUS plays a provincial leadership role in system planning, workforce capacity development, and research.

• Provincial system planning to better support people with complex needs
• Enhancing mental health and substance use services and continuity of care for people in correctional settings
• Eradicating Indigenous-specific racism and ensuring culturally safe care to improve experience and outcomes for Indigenous clients
• Leading through excellence and setting standards for complex concurrent disorders care
• Strengthening care and reducing substance-related harms and death through research, data, patient experience measurement, and best practices

• Evidence reviews and synthesis
• Quantitative research using medical records, administrative data
• Qualitative research involving people with lived and living expertise
• Epidemiological studies using administrative data
• Evaluation of key practice/ program change initiatives, including to better serve Indigenous clients and those using substances
• Knowledge translation strategy/ knowledge product development for various audiences and purposes
• Scientific manuscript preparation
  

1. Clinical workforce development 
2. Expanded clinical practice for nurses and allied health providers
3. Research agenda aligned with the Canadian Partnerships Against Cancer (CPAC) project (equity-oriented models of care)

The fellow will lead, facilitate, and support the development and refinement of research questions and methods aligned with the priority issue. The fellow will also conduct embedded research, including: 

1. Literature reviews
2. Evaluation of evidence
3.  Grant writing 
4. Stakeholder engagement
5.  Conducting mixed methods research, evaluation and data analysis related to patient, provider and/or health system outcomes in cancer care 
6. Research project coordination 
7. Knowledge translation product creation and knowledge exchange

• Health system strengthening in fragile and underserved settings
• Task sharing and capacity building for frontline providers
• Gender-transformative and conflict-sensitive care models
• Implementation science and mixed-methods evaluation
• Digital and AI-assisted tools for equitable health delivery
• Community engagement and health diplomacy for peacebuilding

• Strategy development and policy alignment
• Stakeholder and community engagement across conflict-affected settings
• Qualitative and mixed-methods research
• Program evaluation and implementation science
• Literature reviews and evidence synthesis
• Knowledge translation and policy brief development
• Participatory action research and social impact assessment

The fellowship will be associated with one or more of the following priority areas:

• Supporting service integration, addressing gaps in care, and coordinating access across the region
• Supporting high quality care and reducing violence in forensic settings
• Conducting and applying patient-oriented research
• Using digital tools to support the integration of care while fostering data governance, quality, and literacy
• Understanding gaps and needs in mental health workforce and retention and recruitment issues at Waypoint

The fellow will contribute to research projects in one or more of following ways:

• Qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis
• Literature reviews and knowledge syntheses
• Stakeholder engagement, including patient engagement
• Program development and evaluation
• Knowledge mobilization for practice, research, and policy audiences
• Implementation science and practice

• Advancing strategy to build capacity in health professions scholarship and practice
• Supporting the evidence-informed implementation of clinical, educational or health services interventions
• Leveraging data and health information systems, to measure, evaluate and inform impactful change and strategy

With supervisory support, the fellow will engage in embedded research, including opportunities for:

1. Literature reviews/evidence synthesis
2. Academic writing (e.g., grants, manuscripts)
3. Enterprise-wide stakeholder engagement and strategy development
4. Co-leading qualitative and/or mixed methods research
5. Knowledge mobilization

• Strengthening equitable access to preventive care, including routine immunizations and chronic disease management for underserved populations.
• Advancing innovative approaches to cancer screening, such as the implementation of HPV self-sampling and mobile lung cancer screening.
• Embedding community-driven engagement in all initiatives, with a focus on co-developing solutions with newcomer, rural/ remote, LGBTQIA2S+ communities, etc.
• Supporting innovations in primary care delivery, including integrated models that meet people where they are
• Delivering mobile health services such as lung cancer sceening, STBBIs, etc.
• Combating health misinformation

Horizon Health Network
New Brunswick
Barry Strack
Barry.Strack@HorizonNB.ca
506-651-1602

Horizon Health Network is the second largest regional health authority in Atlantic Canada and operates 12 hospitals and over 100 medical facilities throughout the province. Our 1,242 physicians and 14,000 employees are dedicated to providing the best possible care to the 500,000 people living within our region. Our mission is to help people be healthy and we understand the importance of addressing issues that impact the health and well-being of people in our communities. That is why Horizon is committed to supporting Health System Impact Studies on innovative drugs and other treatment options. We understand that that new treatments can deliver real value to patients and the healthcare system as a whole; however, the local financial and broader economic implications must be well understood to ensure health authorities make informed decisions about which treatments to support, thereby ensuring the sustainability of the health care system.

New drug therapies, innovative technologies, and alternative treatment options can improve the health outcomes of patients. However, the adoption of new treatments can have significant impacts on local hospital resources, the development of patient care pathways, and health system resource management. Horizon Health Network has established a new Health System Impact research team that develops and implements protocols designed to evaluate the impact of innovative drugs and technologies on our patients, health care professionals, hospitals, and the broader health system as a whole. A key component of these studies is the inclusion of a sound economic impact analysis to provide evidence-based insights to help our hospital's health administrators and provincial policy makers make informed decisions regarding the implementation of new treatments, technologies, and policies.

The successful candidate will play a critical role in supporting health system impact studies that evaluate innovative treatments for our patients. This position will involve collaboration with multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders to assess the economic implications of healthcare interventions and contribute to evidence-based decision-making. The key responsibilities would include:

• Conducting health economic analyses, including cost-effectiveness analysis, and economic modeling.
• Support the design and implementation of research studies focused on evaluating innovative treatments and their impact on health systems and patient care.
• Collaborate with clinicians, researchers, and administrators to provide economic insights that inform treatment approaches and health policy decisions.
• Analyze healthcare data, including patient outcomes, costs, and resource utilization, to assess the value of new treatments.
• Prepare and present reports, publications, and presentations summarizing research findings and recommendations.

In parallel to this work, a second PhD fellow will be embedded within New Brunswick Social Pediatrics (NBSP) to support child- and family-centered research initiatives focused on socially vulnerable populations. This fellow will contribute to community-based medical research examining the intersection of health equity, the social determinants of health, and pediatric outcomes. Their work will involve designing and conducting studies that leverage NBSP’s three established research registries—CARE, POP Centre, and the Parent-Child Assistance Program—to identify, measure, and respond to health inequities affecting children and families. The fellow will be engaged in qualitative and quantitative data analysis, manuscript and report writing, and the co-development of knowledge translation products in collaboration with families, clinicians, and community partners. In addition, the fellow will help build capacity within NBSP to translate research into advocacy and health system change, with a focus on breaking cycles of intergenerational adversity. Key responsibilities include: conducting participatory research with families; applying ethical frameworks in the care and study of vulnerable populations; supporting the development of community-based interventions and policy recommendations; and contributing to training and interprofessional education. The successful candidate will demonstrate advanced understanding of child development, mental health, and family dynamics in the context of social vulnerability, and will be skilled in health communication, trauma-informed engagement, and the evaluation of complex social interventions.

Post-doctoral fellows only

• Artificial Intelligence
• Interventional cardiology
• Clinical epidemiology
• Health economics
• Implementation sciences

• Advancing health systems performance measurement for FNIM populations through comprehensive population health assessment and response;
• Interrupting anti-Indigenous racism at healthcare provider and system levels by refining and scaling-up novel assessment tools and management strategies;
• Advancing Indigenous methodologies, knowledge, evaluation methods, and practice in health research.

Autism Alliance of Canada
Ontario
Jonathan Lai
jlai@autismalliance.ca
438-338-9442

Autism Alliance of Canada plays a key role as a community-driven evidence to policy pipeline to guide the implementation of Canada's Autism Strategy, working with the Public Health Agency of Canada. The impact goal for this fellowship is to advance Autism Alliance of Canada's work in conducting and supporting health services and policy initiatives aligned with the Autism Strategy.

Autism Alliance of Canada will use its collective impact structure to advance the health services and policy research at the national level, taking a learning systems approach. The priority areas of the fellowship are aligned with the strategic areas of focus for Autism Alliance of Canada's research and data initiatives:

1. Fostering Patient, Public and Community Engagement in autism research and policy;
2. Advancing Research Partnerships and pan-Canadian health services and policy research;
3. Leveraging health, social and educational administrative data to generate evidence in priority areas.

This fellowship is a unique opportunity to work with stakeholders, community organizations, researchers, clinicians and people with lived experience across the country to help meet the needs of Autistic Canadians and their families.

Post-doctoral fellows

The Office plays an independent leadership role in addressing public health issues in BC, with an ultimate goal of improving overall population health and reducing health inequalities. The Fellow is expected to apply data science and epidemiology methods to advance:

• Reliable and timely data and information on patterns and trends of population health status and health inequalities;
• Evidence-based public health polices and interventions.

• Communicable Diseases Prevention and Control (e.g. COVID-10 emergency and immunization)
• Psychoactive Substances Harm Prevention and Reduction (e.g. Overdose 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 (e.g. all hazards emergency preparedness)
• Health inequalities and social determinants of health
• Injury (e.g. injury surveillance and prevention)
• Chronic disease surveillance and prevention, including congenital anomalies and developmental disabilities.

The type of project an awardee could expect to lead/contribute to includes:

• 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 (ie, disability adjusted life years, DALYs) 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
• Other epidemiological research on etiology, disease patterns, and population health outcomes

To use rigorous research methodology in analyzing and documenting the outcome(s) of the CRC (Canadian Red Cross) supported programs that can help CRC in continuously improving the quality of care provided to the population affected by humanitarian crises and help CRC in sharing the lessons learnt with other community care providers.

• Humanitarian response
• Health in emergencies, recovery and resilence
• Epidemic/Pandemic readiness and response
• Reproductive, Maternal, newborn, adolescent and child Health
• Health
• Migrant's Health
• Health and climate change
• Health research

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

• Improving access to care for people living with Parkinson's
• illustrating an optimal healthcare journey for someone with Parkinson's, and evaluating real-world performance in different regions of Canada
• developing educational resources for the newly diagnosed
• economic burden of living with Parkinson's

• quantitative and qualitative data analysis
• literature review
• environmental scanning
• strategy development
• economic evaluation
• program evaluation

• Literature reviews to identify best practices in inclusive engagement of “hard-to-reach” populations in healthcare, community programs, and research participation.
• Quantitative and/or qualitative research, including environmental scans and stakeholder consultations, to assess gaps and opportunities in Cassie + Friends' engagement strategies.
• Organizational needs assessment to evaluate existing outreach and recruitment methods for programs, services, and research participation within the juvenile arthritis and childhood rheumatic disease community.
• Development of a comprehensive strategy and implementation roadmap to ensure Cassie + Friends’ programs and research partnerships are inclusive and accessible to diverse populations, particularly those historically underrepresented in health initiatives.
• Knowledge translation and dissemination of findings to enhance recruitment and retention efforts in research, ensuring equitable access to research and advancing treatments for childhood rheumatic diseases.
• Collaboration with Cassie + Friends and academic partner (University of Calgary) to integrate best practices into long-term organizational policies and research engagement frameworks.