Professorship in Substance Use and Addiction Medicine Implementation Science and Evaluation Tenure-Track Assistant

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The expected salary range for this position is $145,000 - $165,000 CAD per annum. Salary is competitive, negotiable, and commensurate with experience and is subject to final budgetary approval.

The initial appointment will be for a four-year term with the possibility of reappointment and promotion subject to demonstrated excellence in teaching, scholarly activity and service.

The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a global centre for research and teaching, consistently ranked among the top universities in the world. 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, and is essential to fostering an outstanding work environment.

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.

In partnership with the , the UBC Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences is seeking an individual with expertise in implementation science and evaluation focusing on substance use and addiction medicine, spanning clinical and related programmatic and policy interventions. We now invite applications for a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor in our health outcomes theme, specifically in , where the research programs focus on many aspects of epidemiology and population health, health economics, and health policy.

UBC CORE faculty members apply their methodological expertise across a range of conditions and therapeutic areas, collaborating both nationally and internationally with pharmaceutical and health outcomes researchers.

The BCCSU is a provincially networked organization with a mandate to develop, help implement, and evaluate evidence-based approaches to substance use and dependence. The BCCSU’s vision is to transform substance use policies and care in the province by translating research into education and evidence-based care guidance. By supporting the collaborative development of evidence-based policies, guidelines and standards, the BCCSU seeks to improve the integration of best practices and care across the continuum of substance use, thereby serving all British Columbians.

The BCCSU seeks to achieve these goals through integrated activities of its three core functions: research and evaluation, education and training, and clinical care guidance.

The major focus of this position will be the development of a cutting-edge, externally-funded, world-class research program. Specifically, the successful candidate will be expected to:

Other responsibilities will include teaching topic-appropriate areas in health outcomes and other related topics to students in the BPSc, PharmD, and MSc/PhD programs, as well as new programs under development.

There remains a massive gap in data on the implementation and application of evidence-based practices and evaluation of impactful health outcomes in substance use and addiction. The successful candidate’s program of research will be grounded in implementation science, aimed at accelerating the translation of evidence into practice and improving outcomes through scalable and sustainable interventions. In the context of substance use, this includes improving the delivery, scale-up, and…