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Sessional Lecturer: HENT561 - Health Policy and Service Management (0.25FCE)

Date Posted: 12/23/2024
Closing Date: 01/27/2025, 11:59PM EDT
Req ID: 41201
Job Category: Sessional Instruction
Faculty/Division: Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Department: Dept of Lab. Medicine & Pathobiology
Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto)

 

Description:

This course is designed to help students understand the policies, regulatory, and institutional environments in the health ecosystem and their implications for health services management. Emphasis will be placed on training students to appreciate the policy environment associated with global public health issues and how this informs venture creation in the health sector. The course will also develop students' ability to undertake health policy research and analysis to guide entrepreneurial decisions and practices
The University of Toronto instructor will be co-facilitating the course with their KNUST counterpart. Partnering University: Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana.

 

Estimated course enrollment:  ~ 30 students 
 

Estimated TA support: not applicable

 

Class schedule:  Virtual 3-hour seminar-style sessions; occurring from 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST between Monday, March 17th, 2025 – Friday, March 28th, 2025. 

 

Sessional dates of appointment:  March 1, 2025 - March 30, 2025

 

Salary (0.25FCE):  

Sessional Lecturer I - $4,728.95
Sessional Lecturer I - Long Term - $4,965.40
Sessional Lecturer II - $5,060.88
Sessional Lecturer II - Long Term - $5,163.31
Sessional Lecturer III - $5,181.38
Sessional Lecturer III - Long Term - $5,285.01
 

Please note that should rates stipulated in the collective agreement vary from rates stated in this posting, the rates stated in the collective agreement shall prevail.

 

 

Minimum qualifications:  Master’s Degree or higher in Health Sciences, Public Health Policy, or a related field 

 

Preferred qualifications:  Previous experience in teaching, project management, public health policy, government relations, translational research, and student evaluation.

 

Description of duties:  The instructor will be responsible for achieving the course objectives: broadening students' understanding of the dynamics of health reforms and their effects on health business, the governance of healthcare, the processes and stages of agenda setting, health policy creation and policy implementation. 
 

The instructor will be responsible for designing class activities and take-home activities, creating the mid-term and contributing to the final examination.

 

Application instructions:  Please submit application using the following form: Winter 2025 Sessional Lecturer: HENT561 - Health Policy and Service Management (0.25 FCE)

 

CAUTION: This ad is “posted only” to the U of T CUPE 3902 Unit 3 job board. Please see the informationdirectly above for the application instructions; applications submitted via the "Apply Now" button on this page will NOT be considered for this position.

 

This job is posted in accordance with the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 Collective Agreement. 

It is understood that some announcements of vacancies are tentative, pending final course determinations and enrolment. Should rates stipulated in the collective agreement vary from rates stated in this posting, the rates stated in the collective agreement shall prevail. Preference in hiring is given to qualified 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 collective agreement. Please note:  Undergraduate or graduate students and postdoctoral fellows of the University of Toronto are covered by the CUPE 3902 Unit 1 collective agreement rather than the Unit 3 collective agreement, and should not apply for positions posted under the Unit 3 collective agreement.
 

All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.

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