Postdoctoral Fellow – Pharmacoepidemiology & Health Services Research, Substance Use and Addiction Medicine

Group

The British Columbia Centre on Substance Use (BCCSU) is the provincial useful resource for evidence-based data and therapy steering within the subject of dependancy. The BCCSU performs an advocacy function for constructive and public coverage change, decreasing stigma, and supporting sufferers and their households, and is dedicated to conducting and translating modern analysis into improved dependancy care throughout BC. The BCCSU develops coaching curricula, program requirements, and observe pointers for supply all through BC, with collaborative networks throughout regional well being authorities, researchers, educators, and care suppliers, and different allied care professionals throughout the province to make sure that analysis and innovation effectively attain the individuals they’re meant to serve.

Background                                                                                                                         

A postdoctoral fellowship place is obtainable in Dr. Lianping Ti’s analysis staff by the BC Centre on Substance Use. Dr. Ti’s analysis group broadly focuses on pharmacoepidemiology and well being providers analysis associated to substance use and dependancy medication. The place might be centered on analysis tasks evaluating hurt discount and substance use packages and insurance policies, and their affect on therapy or service uptake and well being outcomes. The candidate will work with main (e.g., surveys) and secondary knowledge (e.g., well being administrative knowledge) sources to guide analysis actions, using varied knowledge science, longitudinal modelling, and quasi-experimental methods.

The profitable candidate might be supervised by Dr. Lianping Ti and can work collaboratively with different venture staff members.

Duties

• Carry out literature critiques to determine key gaps in present data and inform evaluation strategy
• Write peer-reviewed manuscripts for publication in related journals
• Develop evaluation plans and conduct knowledge evaluation utilizing main and secondary knowledge sources
• Lead data translation actions, together with displays at analysis conferences, conferences with key stakeholders and coverage change initiatives
• Help in supervising graduate and undergraduate analysis
• Figuring out related funding sources and growing grant proposals and purposes as wanted
• Getting ready ethics purposes and different research-related duties as wanted

{Qualifications} and Necessities

• A PhD in a related self-discipline (e.g., epidemiology, public well being)
• Rigorous coaching in quantitative, epidemiological, and quasi-experimental strategies (e.g., longitudinal knowledge evaluation, trial emulation, interrupted time sequence, machine studying) is very desired
• Have a powerful publication report in respected, peer-review journals
• Glorious oral and written communication abilities when working with inner staff members and exterior collaborators or stakeholders

Compensation

The anticipated wage vary is $65,000-$75,000 per yr, primarily based on the expertise of the profitable candidate.

Easy methods to Apply

Please ship your inquiries and purposes to Alison Knill at [email protected] . Functions ought to embody your present CV and a canopy letter.

Additional Data

Please assessment this web site for extra particulars.

Fairness and variety are important to educational excellence. An open and various group fosters the inclusion of voices which were underrepresented or discouraged. We encourage purposes from members of teams which were marginalized on any grounds enumerated below the B.C. Human Rights Code, together with intercourse, sexual orientation, gender identification or expression, racialization, incapacity, political perception, faith, marital or household standing, age, and/or standing as a First Nation, Metis, Inuit, or Indigenous particular person.