Health System Impact Program: Partner Linkage Tool

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

• The gold standard of treatment for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction includes quadruple therapy (four different classes of medication), however there are numerous barriers to access. This is a priority area of focus at CSBC.
• This embedded research project will build and test simulation models of different strategies for expediting initiation of quadruple therapy across the province, including:
  • Prescribing protocols (e.g. how best to start and adjust these medications)
  • Clinical roles (e.g. family physician-led, pharmacist-led, team-based)
  • Timing of program implementation (e.g. phased or mass roll-out)

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.

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

Strategic priority areas include:

1. Determining population-based rehabilitation needs and outcomes in Alberta through administrative and clinical data collection and analysis;
2. Exploring efficient and effective rehabilitation patient flow along the continuum of care; and
3. Identifying and implementing patient-centred best practices in the interdisciplinary rehabilitation team setting.

The fellow will engage the Glenrose leadership and the Neurosciences, Rehabilitation & Vision Strategic Clinical Network to conduct rigourous, embedded research to advance priority projects. The scope of tasks and responsibilities can be individualized and may include:

• Literature reviews
• Database analysis
• Grant writing
• Stakeholder engagement
• Mixed-methods research
• Integrated knowledge translation

• 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):

• Home and Community Care models
• Focus on congregate and dense housing neighbourhoods
• Transitional models from hospital to home
• Decision support analysis and artificial intelligence (AI)
• Home and Community Care Support Services Navigation Solutions
• Decision support analysis and artificial intelligence (AI)
• Low-Income Housing (residential care facilities, boarding houses)
• Case management and coordination of services
• Digital Integration and Information Sharing
• Information-sharing solutions that connect the continuum of care (home and community care, Long-Term Care (LTC), acute care, primary care) and advance holistic person-centred care in whatever care setting they are in
• Data platform for quality improvement (QI) and evaluation
• Remote monitoring

Candidates will work in coordination with internal and external health system partners to contribute to the design and evaluation of integrated care interventions and care models. Candidates will be expected to lead sub-projects and grow their own leadership. Assets include:

• Knowledge of sector-specific issues and dynamics.
• Experience working with health system partners.
• Quantitative analytical data experience.

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
4. scenario analysis of the impacts of artificial intelligence on the health sector

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 (across digital security, artificial intelligence, and health data governance)
• 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.

Canada's Top 40 Research Hospital in 2024, 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

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.

• 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.

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