The successful candidate will be a Scientist or Senior Scientist in the OHRI’s Methodological and Implementation Research program and hold an academic appointment with the uOttawa Faculty of Medicine’s School of Epidemiology and Public Health. The OHRI is among Canada’s top centres and a global leader in interdisciplinary, methodologically innovative, patient-oriented, and implementation and impact focused research. The OHRI is home to research expertise in >100 diseases, conditions, and populations. Application of OHRI’s bench to bedside to practice and policy approach across these areas makes it an ideal setting for conducting impactful health economic research and health technology assessment. The OHRI provides opportunities to access large scale health administrative data including through ICES uOttawa and The Ottawa Hospital Epic Systems and Cosmos©.
Its location, on the unceded territory of the Anishinaabe-Algonquin people, in Canada’s capital also enables strong connections to organisational, government and policy interest holders. The Faculty of Medicine is the first and largest bilingual medical faculty in Canada, consisting of over 2,400 faculty members, including clinicians and researchers. The successful candidate will become an integral member of uOttawa’s School of Epidemiology and Public Health, a vibrant research and teaching environment comprised of over 150 core, adjunct, and cross-appointed interdisciplinary faculty members.
The successful candidate will be joining the OHRI/uOttawa at an exciting time when several collaborative initiatives and large-scale infrastructure projects are underway to significantly expand support for applied health research. These include the innovative uOttawa Brain-Heart Interconnectome, a ground-breaking interdisciplinary research program designed to accelerate prevention, detection, treatment, and care of health conditions linked to the brain and the heart through research co-produced with patients and other knowledge users, as well as The Ottawa Hospital’s state-of-the-art new campus, which will be the most advanced hospital in Canada and a major centre for research and innovation.
We are interested in attracting an established health economist who is an internationally recognized leader in health economics. The Chair’s mandate will be aligned with the OHRI/uOttawa goal of redefining health care systems, with the expectation that their focus will include areas and conditions linking the brain and heart. They will contribute to OHRI’s strategic vision for practice-changing research, which includes evaluating the effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, value, and efficiency of existing and emerging therapies and health care delivery models to support practice and policy decisions and change. The Chair will have the opportunity to be embedded within the Ottawa Methods Centre, a trial unit and methodological hub of expertise, providing an avenue for further developing their research in collaboration with clinical investigators across the OHRI and The Ottawa Hospital for impactful health economic evaluation. The Chair will be a member of the Brain-Heart Interconnectome and will contribute to a novel transdisciplinary approach to science and improved health and care for those living with and at risk of brain-heart conditions.
The selected candidate will have a track record of scientific leadership demonstrated by acquiring large-scale grants and catalyzing collaboration among scientists, trainees, clinicians, and regulatory experts.
Tier 1 Chairs, tenable for seven years and renewable once, are for outstanding researchers acknowledged by their peers as world leaders in their fields. For each Tier 1 Chair, the institution receives $200,000 annually for seven years. In addition to the government’s contribution, the uOttawa/OHRI will also provide the successful candidate with a competitive start-up package. Nominees for Tier 1 Chair positions must be full professors or associate professors who are expected to be promoted to the full professor level within one or two years of the nomination. Alternatively, if they come from outside the academic sector, nominees must possess the necessary qualifications to be appointed at these levels. New CRC nominees are also eligible for infrastructure support from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) to help acquire state-of-the-art equipment essential to their work.