Postdoctoral Scholar, Health Policy
4 weeks ago
**Description**
**Area**: Health Policy & Cumming School of Medicine
**Duration**: 1 year with renewal
**Start Date**: January 2, 2025
**Salary**: $65,000 CAD per annum, plus University of Calgary Plan C health benefits
Children can experience vulnerabilities and resiliency factors (biologic or environmental) in their developmental trajectory that impact their well-being. Cross-ministry policy and services have an important role in improving health and well-being outcomes; however, the current Alberta child and youth services sector lacks strategy and links between development trajectories, environmental factors and child health and well-being. Indicators can help simplify the complex information concerning the child health and well-being environment and policy nexus by identifying modifiable factors that impact child health and wellness. These indicators can then be used to turn population data into relevant information for decision-makers and the public. Currently, Alberta does not have cross-sectoral indicators of child health and well-being. The research group has carried out an environmental scan and scoping review to gather and synthesize relevant domains, concepts and indicators in the literature. This PDS position focuses on the next steps of identifying key indicators through a systematic consensus process and identifying evidence-based policies and prevention strategies to improve child health and well-being.
This work will have an important role in supporting researchers, community partners and government to work together and build capacity to integrate indicators into measurement and monitoring of service delivery. This research program is embedded within Theme 3 of the One Child Every Child initiative which is a Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF) initiative, with a vision for all Canadian children to be the healthiest, most empowered and thriving in the world. One Child Every Child is a Parallel Paths project that has Indigenous and non-Indigenous Paths. All members of the program will perform training on work with Indigenous people, communities and data. Experience with Indigenous community-based work is an asset for members of the OCEC research team.
PDS supervision will be provided by: (1) Dr. Jennifer Zwicker, Director of Health Policy, School of Public Policy and (2) Dr. Brent Hagel, Cumming School of Medicine. This fellowship is embedded in a research program with extensive connections to local community partners and national research networks.
The PDS will lead research to develop monitoring reports using a core set of indicators of child and youth health and well-being relevant to children who are vulnerable in Alberta. The PDS will also engage in an environmental scan and policy mapping of policies relevant to child health and wellbeing.
The position requires independent analysis and research, within a team approach in a fast-moving and changing environment, often involving multiple stakeholders. The PDS will contribute to refining the research questions and methods and will have the opportunity to lead a consensus-process to develop a monitoring report for child health and well-being, relevant to vulnerable children and families in Alberta and recommend approaches for developing cross-ministerial policy in Alberta that fosters resilience and growth for vulnerable children. Research outcomes will inform policy development for child health and social services and evaluation and the PDS will work closely with partners and with community and government stakeholders.
**Responsibilities include**:
- Refine research questions and methods in relation to implementing a stakeholder consensus process to identify key indicators on child health and well-being in Alberta.
- Lead the design and implementation of at least one sub-study in the above-described research program.
- Actively contribute to the development of peer-reviewed publications related to the studies undertaken as part of the PDS appointment.
- Provide leadership on knowledge mobilization activities.
- Provide leadership and mentorship in relation to the stakeholder consensus process, including possible supervision of trainees and support staff.
- Undertake additional training
- such as those listed below or otherwise.
Presentation and communication of research and research results to a variety of audiences and in different venues is also involved (i.e. presentations at conferences, workshops, team meetings as well as in various written publications). Peak times will occur near deadlines for reporting analysis and results to project stakeholders.
Opportunities for applied training are available, related to statistical methods, qualitative inquiry and stakeholder engagement, policy analysis, grant writing, student supervision, knowledge translation of clinical research into practice and policy and multi-stakeholder collaboration with a range of investigators (policy analysts, epidemiologists, psychologists, qua
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