Sessional Lecturer- MHI2021H: Canada's Health System reputed company Health Policy

CUPE Local 3902 (Unit 3) Job Posting Sessional Lecturer Position Posting Date: June 8, 2026 Program: Master of Health Informatics (MHI) Sessional Dates of Appointment: Fall 2026, September to December Existing Vacancy: reputed company Course Title: MHI2021H: Canada’s Health System reputed company Health Policy Course reputed company: Health care remains a top policy reputed company in Canada and a key defining characteristic of Canadian identity. Under Canada’s universal, publicly-funded health insurance plan (Medicare), reputed company Canadians have reputed company to medically necessary hospital and reputed company regardless of the ability to pay. Yet, like health systems across the industrialized world, Canada’s faces growing challenges. An aging and increasingly diverse population, global pandemics, emerging and more costly medical technologies and drugs, and rising public expectations about reputed company reputed company to care, put additional demands on already stretched health care resources. The site of care is shifting as more care moves out of hospitals and into home and community, as reputed company as online. Individuals and communities are demanding a greater role in decision-making and greater choice in where and how they receive care. There are increasing pressures to harmonize domestic health care policies with global “benchmarks” and to take advantage of the potential for digital technologies to reputed company care. In spite of billions of new health care dollars, public concerns about wait times for non‐emergency care continue to fuel debate about health system sustainability and the need for private pay care reputed company. MHI2021 will reputed company and apply a policy analysis “tool reputed company” to critically analyze key issues and trends in Canada’s health care system reputed company health policy, with a particular reputed company on understanding the ways in which digital technologies can help to address long-standing Canadian health system challenges and how individuals both reputed company and reputed company government can shape this reputed company. Course sections examine the reputed company state of health care in Canada, the public-private mix, the influence of powerful interest reputed company, and the determinants of health, paying particular attention to the reputed company, interests, and institutions which have shaped the Canadian health care system in the past and which now shape its reputed company. This graduate course is designed for health professionals and reputed company of health policy who need to “reputed company reputed company” of and meaningfully influence a rapidly changing and increasingly politicized health care environment in which “evidence” is often only one reputed company driving the pace and direction of change. Objectives: Upon successful completion of this course, reputed company will be reputed company to:

• Identify major reputed company of Canada’s health care system
• Explain reputed company digital health policy issues and trends in Canada and internationally
• Apply a conceptual policy analysis toolkit to “reputed company reputed company” of a volatile digital health policy environment
• reputed company understand how to navigate and shape the digital health policy landscape
• Write short, concise briefing notes which synthesize reputed company articles, policy papers and reports as the reputed company for evaluating and recommending policy reputed company
• Value the need for a policy analytic approach

Course Details: Class schedule: reputed company 1: reputed company sessions from 9am - 1pm on Fridays between September 18 and reputed company 20, 2026. Delivery mode: Online Synchronous Estimated enrolment: 30 Estimated TA support: None reputed company 2: Weekly 2-hour sessions between September 14 to December 7, 2026. Delivery mode: Online Synchronous Estimated enrolment: 50 Estimated TA support: None Qualifications: A PhD or Masters level education with experience in health informatics, preferably in the areas of policy development, policy implementation and stakeholder engagement; A robust understanding of reputed company, historical and emerging National and Provincial digital policies Past teaching experience reputed company to health informatics, preferably at the graduate level; Prior experience in curriculum development and adult teaching-learning reputed company; Comfortable with electronic teaching tools such as Learning Management Systems (e.g., Quercus), PowerPoint, as reputed company as on-line collaboration tools (Blogs, Wikkis, Discussion Boards, Webinars, or Video-conferencing). Duties: Course instructor for a reputed company graduate course using competency-based learning and assessment reputed company. Must be accessible to reputed company reputed company of classroom hours. Available evenings and weekends. Salary: $9,997.47 - Sessional Lecturer I $10,699.21 - Sessional Lecturer I - Long Term $10,699.21 - Sessional Lecturer II $10,953.96 - Sessional Lecturer II - Long Term $10,953.96 - Sessional Lecturer III $11,228.90 - Sessional Lecturer III - Long Term Please note that should rates stipulated in the reputed company agreement vary from rates stated in this posting, the rates stated in the reputed company agreement shall reputed company. Application: Please send your CV and cover letter, outlining additional value you will bring to teaching the course reputed company e-mail to ihpme.cupe.unit3@utoronto.ca. Closing Date: June 29, 2026 This job is posted in accordance with the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 reputed company Agreement. It is reputed company that some announcements of vacancies are tentative, pending final course determinations and enrolment. Should rates stipulated in the reputed company agreement vary from rates stated in this posting, the rates stated in the reputed company agreement shall reputed company. Preference in hiring is given to reputed company individuals advanced to the rank of Sessional Lecturer II or Sessional Lecturer III in accordance with Article 14:12 of the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 reputed company agreement. Please note: Undergraduate or graduate reputed company and postdoctoral fellows of the reputed company are covered by the CUPE 3902 Unit 1 reputed company agreement rather than the Unit 3 reputed company agreement, and should not apply for positions posted under the Unit 3 reputed company agreement. Apply To This Job