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

Organization

The British Columbia Centre on Substance Use (BCCSU) is the provincial resource for evidence-based information and treatment guidance in the field of addiction. The BCCSU plays an advocacy role for positive and public policy change, reducing stigma, and supporting patients and their families, and is committed to conducting and translating leading-edge research into improved addiction care across BC. The BCCSU develops training curricula, program standards, and practice guidelines for delivery throughout BC, with collaborative networks across regional health authorities, researchers, educators, and care providers, and other allied care professionals across the province to ensure that research and innovation efficiently reach the people they are intended to serve.

Background                                                                                                                         

A postdoctoral fellowship position is available in Dr. Lianping Ti’s research team through the BC Centre on Substance Use. Dr. Ti’s research group broadly focuses on pharmacoepidemiology and health services research related to substance use and addiction medicine. The position will be focused on research projects evaluating harm reduction and substance use programs and policies, and their impact on treatment or service uptake and health outcomes. The candidate will work with primary (e.g., surveys) and secondary data (e.g., health administrative data) sources to lead research activities, utilizing various data science, longitudinal modelling, and quasi-experimental techniques.

The successful candidate will be supervised by Dr. Lianping Ti and will work collaboratively with other project team members.

Responsibilities

• Perform literature reviews to identify key gaps in current knowledge and inform analysis approach
• Write peer-reviewed manuscripts for publication in relevant journals
• Develop analysis plans and conduct data analysis using primary and secondary data sources
• Lead knowledge translation activities, including presentations at research conferences, meetings with key stakeholders and policy change initiatives
• Assist in supervising graduate and undergraduate research
• Identifying relevant funding sources and developing grant proposals and applications as needed
• Preparing ethics applications and other research-related tasks as needed

Qualifications and Requirements

• A PhD in a relevant discipline (e.g., epidemiology, public health)
• Rigorous training in quantitative, epidemiological, and quasi-experimental methods (e.g., longitudinal data analysis, trial emulation, interrupted time series, machine learning) is highly desired
• Have a strong publication record in reputable, peer-review journals
• Excellent oral and written communication skills when working with internal team members and external collaborators or stakeholders

Compensation

The expected salary range is $65,000-$75,000 per year, based on the experience of the successful candidate.

How to Apply

Please send your inquiries and applications to Alison Knill at [email protected] . Applications should include your current CV and a cover letter.

Please review this website for additional details.

Equity and diversity are essential to academic excellence. An open and diverse community fosters the inclusion of voices that have been underrepresented or discouraged. We encourage applications from members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the B.C. Human Rights Code, including sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, racialization, disability, political belief, religion, marital or family status, age, and/or status as a First Nation, Metis, Inuit, or Indigenous person.