Researcher, Health Care

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Provide advice to senior managers and officials
• Maintain, update and manage health information databases
• Perform administrative tasks
• Compile and analyze statistical information provided by private and public health care institutions and organizations
• Produce reports
• Recruit and hire staff
• Monitor health care programs
• Present the views of an association or organization to members, the media and the general public
• Organize conferences and meetings
• Produce newsletters, magazines and other documents
• Prepare research papers, educational texts or articles
• Provide consulting services to government and other organizations
• Conduct interviews
• Conduct literature reviews
• Act as liaison within organization between staff and management around wellness issues
• Design and implement health and wellness projects or programs
• Interpret trends and developments on health issues
• Conduct evaluations and assessments of health projects and programs
• Develop policies, standards and guidelines
• Co-ordinate workshops
• Develop people resources and networks for health information and other wellness issues
• Co-ordinate multidisciplinary projects
• Deliver presentations at conferences, workshops or symposia
• Monitor and compile research results

Supervision

• 3-4 people

Experience and specialization

Functional expertise

• Policy research and development
• Professional or technical accreditation
• Program administration or operations management
• Public education or information programming
• Public relations or communications
• Regulation or legislation policy interpretation and implementation

Policy and program experience

• Addiction or substance abuse
• Behaviour disorders
• Disease control
• Nutrition
• Pharmaceutical use
• Physical rehabilitation
• Dental health

Research experience

• Causal-comparative
• Correlational
• Experimental or quantitative
• Historical research
• Qualitative research
• Inquiry

Area of work experience

• Clinical and diagnostic health
• Emergency health care planning
• Environmental and occupational health
• Government health care insurance administration
• Health administration
• Health economics
• Health funding and resource allocation
• Health human resources planning
• Health promotion
• International public health care
• Professional health care education
• Public or community health centre

Medical specialization

• Epidemiology
• Medical social work
• Medical sociology
• Dentistry

Area of specialization

• Bioinformatics

Additional information

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Work under pressure
• Tight deadlines
• Fast-paced environment