About the Role
The Laboratory of Behavioural Neuroendocrinology at CAMH is seeking a Scientific Associate to support research on sex and gender differences in brain health, mental health, aging, and neurodegenerative disease. This role involves developing and executing research projects, analyzing data, writing grant proposals and manuscripts, and contributing to knowledge translation.
Responsibilities
- Provide senior scientific support through the development and execution of research projects.
- Conduct secondary data analyses.
- Develop competitive grant proposals, scientific manuscripts, reports, and presentations.
- Create knowledge translation resources related to sex- and gender-based analysis, women's health, and translational research.
- Contribute expertise in clinical research methods, epidemiology, health data science, and secondary data analysis.
- Integrate, harmonize, and analyze large-scale clinical, population-based, and longitudinal datasets.
- Support research investigating biological, social, and environmental factors influencing brain health, cognitive aging, mental health, and neurodegenerative disease.
- Advance the application of Sex and Gender-Based Analysis Plus (SGBA+) across research design, analysis, interpretation, and knowledge translation.
- Contribute to data-driven frameworks and evidence-based approaches that improve understanding of women's health.
- Contribute to grant strategy and collaborative research initiatives.
- Provide mentorship and guidance to trainees and research staff in research methodology, data analysis, scientific writing, and professional development.
- Maintain high standards of scientific integrity, data governance, reproducibility, and responsible conduct of research.
Requirements
- Expertise in clinical research methods.
- Expertise in epidemiology.
- Expertise in health data science.
- Expertise in secondary data analysis.
- Ability to integrate, harmonize, and analyze large-scale clinical, population-based, and longitudinal datasets.
- Understanding of biological, social, and environmental factors influencing brain health, cognitive aging, mental health, and neurodegenerative disease.
- Focus on sex-specific risk factors, prevention, and personalized approaches to women's health.
- Ability to advance the application of Sex and Gender-Based Analysis Plus (SGBA+).
- Contribution to data-driven frameworks and evidence-based approaches.
- Contribution to grant strategy and collaborative research initiatives.
- Ability to provide mentorship and guidance to trainees and research staff.
- Maintenance of high standards of scientific integrity, data governance, reproducibility, and responsible conduct of research.
Skills
- Clinical research methods
- Epidemiology
- Health data science
- Secondary data analysis
- Data integration
- Data harmonization
- Large-scale data analysis
- Sex and Gender-Based Analysis Plus (SGBA+)
- Scientific writing
- Knowledge translation
- Mentorship
Location
- 250 College Street Site, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Work Type
- Full-time
- Contract (12 months)
- Hybrid work arrangements
Experience Level
- Senior scientific support
About the Company
- The Laboratory of Behavioural Neuroendocrinology is part of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH).
- CAMH's core values are Courage, Respect, and Excellence.
- CAMH is implementing its Strategic Plan: Connected CAMH.
- CAMH's mission is to transform lives, ignite innovation and discovery, revolutionize education, and drive social change.
- CAMH aims to change how society thinks about and responds to mental illness.
- CAMH strives to eliminate prejudice and discrimination.
- CAMH envisions a world where mental illness is central to our healthcare system and Mental Health is Health.
- Learn more at www.camh.ca.
