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Postdoctoral Research Fellow – STBBI Precision Public Health; OPTIMISE Jobs in Vancouver, Canada at The University of British Columbia
Title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow – STBBI Precision Public Health; OPTIMISE
Company: The University of British Columbia
Location: Vancouver, Canada
Category:
Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow – STBBI Precision Public Health (OPTIMISE)
Academic
Job Category
Faculty Non Bargaining
Job Title
Postdoctoral Research Fellow – STBBI Precision Public Health (OPTIMISE)
Department
Bartlett Laboratory | School of Population and Public Health | Faculty of Medicine (Sofia Bartlett)
Posting End Date
April 30, 2026
Note:Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the Posting End Date.
Job End Date
May 31, 2027
The expected salary range for this position is $70,000 – $75,000 per annum. The Faculty of Medicine is committed to offering equitable and competitive salaries, commensurate with the qualifications and experience of the candidate.
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 School of Population and Public Health (SPPH) is seeking a full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellowwho will focus on the “ project, funded primarily by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). The OPTIMISE project aims to characterize syndemics of social conditions, sexually transmitted and bloodborne infections (STBBIs) and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) using syndemic and precision public health approaches. This project will use data from the BC Hepatitis Testers Cohort (BC-HTC) and IDEALs Cohorts- longitudinal cohorts of ~2.5 million people tested for HCV, HIV, HBV, or syphilis or diagnosed with HCV, HBV, HIV/AIDS or active TB linked with their healthcare data (medical visits, hospitalizations, prescription drugs) and registries (cancer, vital statistics, perinatal and chronic diseases) since 1992.
The cohort and team have produced influential pieces of evidence that have shaped policy in British Columbia, Canada, and internationally.
Housed within the Faculty of Medicine, the School of Population and Public Health (SPPH) is an innovative unit that encompasses many of the health-related groupings at UBC as a collaborative venture. The School is structured around four divisions:
Global and Environmental Health;
Health Services and Policy;
Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Public Health Practice; and Health in Populations. The resulting mix of professions and disciplines is seen as a means of connecting individuals and learners to galvanize the relationship between health research, public health and health services and to enhance learning.
The position will be located at the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC). BCCDC is the provincial public health service providing disease surveillance, detection, prevention, treatment, policy development and health promotion programming to promote and protect the health of British Columbians. We have a strong interdisciplinary group of epidemiologists, statisticians, infectious disease and public health physicians, mathematical modelers, and policymakers working in a data-rich environment with many learning and development opportunities.
This position is a great learning opportunity for Hepatitis C surveillance, policy development and translation of research to inform policy and program. Besides involvement in research, the position also offers opportunities for teaching at SPPH.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Reporting to the Principal Investigators,the incumbent will be responsible for:
strategic planning for the project direction of the characterizing and assessing the syndemics of social conditions, sexually transmitted and bloodborne infections (STBBIs) and non-communicable diseases (NCDs)
developing analysis plans and conducting analysis
communicating with collaborators regarding project matters including update on findings
collaborating with other members of the Analytics for Public Health research team, public health stakeholders, and other academic partners
QUALIFICATIONS
Completed a PhD within 5 years in a relevant discipline (e.g. public health, epidemiology)
Experience in one or more of the following areas is preferred: hepatitis C, STBBIs,…