Postdoctoral Research Fellow

AcademicJob CategoryFaculty Non BargainingJob TitlePostdoctoral Research FellowDepartmentDigital Emergency Medicine | Department of Emergency Medicine | Faculty of Medicine (Kendall Ho)Posting End DateDecember 27, 2025

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the Posting End Date.

Job End DateJanuary 1, 2027

The expected pay (or pay range) for this position is $70,000 - $75,000 per annum.

At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students. Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.

The Department of Emergency Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine is a provincially integrated Department committed to clinical and academic leadership in the creation and exchange of knowledge to promote excellence in emergency care. Our 750+ faculty members across the province have an impressive record of research and discovery. Research and innovation initiatives include programs related to prevention of emergencies, improving clinical care, and system improvements.

The Digital Emergency Medicine research group in the Department of Emergency Medicine, led by Dr. Kendall Ho, Professor of Emergency Medicine and Lead, Digital Emergency Medicine, conducts research on the use of digital technologies to improve healthcare delivery and raise digital health literacy. Digital Emergency Medicine carries out research, community engagement, and educational activities to explore how modern information and communication technologies (e.g. mobile and web-based applications, sensors, wearables, AI/ML etc.) can improve health care.

Digital Emergency Medicine invites applications from highly qualified candidates for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position. The successful candidate will contribute to multi-year research on economic evaluation of virtual care services and usage of digital health technologies for patient care. The research seeks to evaluate how technology-enabled health services can improve access to healthcare.

With access to administrative records and the support of a learning health system community, the successful candidate will have the opportunity to gain experience in undertaking applied economic evaluations, with a specialized focus on digital health and virtual care. The research offers opportunities to enhance skills and experiences in advanced health economic methodological approaches.

The work will involve applying health economics methods (e.g. resource utilization and cost analysis, decision and outcomes modelling) to patient-level data from cohort studies, linked administrative datasets, or other primary data collection.  Studies may include statistical and econometric analyses and health economic modelling.

The successful candidate will be under the supervision of Dr. Kendall Ho, with guidance from Dr. Sonya Cressman, SFU Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences, and will work with Digital Emergency Medicine staff and students.

The position will be based at Digital Emergency Medicine, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Responsibilities

• Designing and developing research plans and conducting analysis

• Organizing and structuring research protocols appropriate to research proposal aims and objectives, in consultation with the PI, Investigators, project advisors and collaborators

• Adhering to confidentiality requirements, procedures and policies

• Overseeing study participant recruitment, informed consent workflows, data collection and data management (labeling, storage, retrieval)

• Coordinating analytical workflows and ensuring method validation and documentation.

• Working with investigative teams and collaborators to develop and conduct assessments and analyses

• Leading and organizing internal research team meetings (agendas, decisions, action items) including meeting with funders and other stakeholders.

• Communicating with collaborators regarding program matters including update on findings

• Preparing briefing notes for investigators, interim reports for funders, and slide decks for policy-makers and other audiences

• Contributing to final reports and plain-language summaries.

• Developing and maintaining study/methodological documentation

• Building and supporting relationships with partner organizations

• Facilitating engagement and knowledge synthesis activities

• Designing materials and/or planning events for dissemination of findings

• Writing manuscripts

• Writing grants

• Collaborating with other members of Digital Emergency Medicine, public health stakeholders, and other partners, as applicable

• Participating in team meetings and contributing to research communities of practice

• Troubleshooting and problem solving, as necessary

• Other duties as applicable.

Qualifications

• To be appointed to a UBC Postdoctoral Research Fellow position, a candidate must be within five (5) years of being awarded the Ph.D. degree or ten (10) years of being awarded the MD or DDS degree. Candidate must have completed a graduate degree in a related area (economics, epidemiology, health or data sciences). 

• Experience working with government, regulatory body, health care organization or industry in an area related to economic evaluation would be an asset.  We seek candidates with a commitment to multidisciplinary, equity-informing and collaborative research.

• Candidates with an established record of excellent and innovative research in health economics  as well as experience or interest in emergency and primary care services and the economics of digital/virtual care as interventions are encouraged to apply. 

• ·Strong scientific writing in explanatory and procedural styles for diverse audiences

• A track record of peer-reviewed publications and other knowledge translation activities

  ·       Excellent verbal communication skills, research, project management and interpersonal skills

• Proven ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks and deadlines

• Demonstrated initiative, judgment, discretion and problem-solving ability

• Excellent ability to work effectively independently and in a team

• Willingness to respect diverse perspectives, including perspectives in conflict with one's own.

How to apply?

The application must include:

• a cover letter

• a current curriculum vitae

• a statement of research interests (3 page limit plus supporting documents)

• a teaching portfolio to include a teaching statement (3 page limit) plus supporting documents to include sample course materials, and teaching evaluations

• an equity and diversity statement (1 page limit)

• three (3) representative publications or working papers 

• three (3) letters of reference

Desired Start Date: January 2, 2026 or a mutually agreed time
Expected Salary Range: $70,000 - $75,000 per annum.

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