Assistant Professor of Public Health

Description

The Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto (hereinafter, the Institute) invite applications for a full-time tenure stream in the areas of Leadership in Health Informatics Systems and Policy Research. The appointment will be at the rank of Assistant Professor, with anticipated start date of January 1st, 2027.

Candidates must hold a PhD at the time of appointment, in one of the following fields: Health Informatics, Information Science, Information Systems, or other relevant fields. Candidates should have focused expertise in the implementation, or scaling of digital health innovations, with strengths in areas such as data governance and stewardship, socio-technical systems, safety and risk management. Candidates must also have a demonstrated record of excellence in both teaching and research in health informatics policy, leadership and systems research, and proven excellence or emerging excellence as a leader of collaborative, multi-/inter- trans-disciplinary research. The successful candidate will be expected to pursue innovative and independent research, and to establish an outstanding, competitive, and externally funded program.