Upstream Lab

🆕 Job Opportunity: Upstream Lab is hiring TWO full-time, permanent Research Coordinator IIs. Please apply through the Unity Health Toronto job portal by June 8: https://gen-ezjf9k52wb5ac52e-prd.tam.ca1.inforcloudsuite.com/hcm/xmlhttp/shorturl.do?key=3O3

The Research Coordinator IIs will support several exciting projects within the lab:

🔵 Data Science: The Research Coordinator will play a key role in the day-to-day coordination of multiple data science initiatives. These include sub-studies within the PREPARED project (https://preparedcanada.org) focused on using AI to extract information on social needs from electronic medical records, analyzing access to primary care through geographic and distance-based measures, and advancing primary care data infrastructure.

🔵 Social Determinants of Health and Cancer Outcomes: The Research Coordinator will support a project examining how individual-level social determinants of health influence cancer outcomes and contribute to inequities in care within a health systems organization.

Unity Health Toronto

Happy ! Upstream Lab Director Dr. Andrew Pinto and Scientist Dr. Archna Gupta are featured in the Ontario College of Family Physicians - OCFP's videos celebrating World Family Doctor Day (May 19): https://ontariofamilyphysicians.ca/world-family-doctor-day/

This year’s theme, “Family Doctors: Driving Innovation in Health Care,” highlights how family doctors like Dr. Pinto and Dr. Gupta are leading efforts to solve health system challenges and shaping the future of healthcare for patients across Ontario.

Watch the videos:

📺 Driving Innovative Solutions to System Challenges: https://vimeo.com/1192678791?fl=pl&fe=sh
Featuring Dr. Pinto, Dr. Gupta, and Upstream Lab team members Facundo Lodol, Parsa Balalaie, Roxana Rabet, and Laura Romero Orchez. "We are trying to address the root causes of poor health, to promote health equity, and to ensure that the way that we resolve issues is evidence-based and leads to healthier populations," says Dr. Gupta. Dr. Pinto highlights Upstream Lab research on AI and healthcare and pandemic preparedness, such as our PREPARED research study: https://preparedcanada.org

📺 Family Doctors: Driving Innovation in Health Care: https://vimeo.com/1192051129?fl=pl&fe=sh
Featuring Dr. Gupta, Dr. Pinto, and fellow family physicians. They speak about how family physicians and patients build long-term relationships and work together to find solutions to issues in healthcare at both the personal and system levels.

Unity Health Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation U of T Medicine

Happy !

Join us in celebrating the impact of family doctors across Ontario.

Hear directly from family physicians about how they’re bringing innovation into practice, today and in the future: https://ontariofamilyphysicians.ca/world-family-doctor-day/

World Organization of Family Doctors - WONCA Ontario Medical Association