Grant: Fellowship: Health System Impact Fellowships - Western Canada 1 year

This fellowship is a one-year partnership position between the Healthy Child Manitoba Office (HCMO) and the Manitoba Centre for Healthy Policy (MCHP). HCMO was established to deliver the Government of Manitoba's mission for a long-term, cross-departmental prevention and early intervention strategy for putting children and families first. Led by the Healthy Child Committee of Cabinet, HCMO works across departments and sectors to develop community-based programs focused on achieving the best outcomes for all of Manitoba's children and youth. The fellow will work at HCMO under the supervision of the Senior Deputy Minister, Dr. Rob Santos for 70% of the fellowship. The remaning 30% will be spent at MCHP, under the supervision of Dr. Alan Katz, Director. MCHP is a research institution that houses the world renown MCHP Data Repository. The fellow will design and lead a project that prepares data from seven programs implemented by HCMO designed to prevent Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and support families affected by FASD for research purposes and linkage with the MCHP Data Repository. This project will consist of working across the 6 departments of HCMO as well as with MCHP to analyze data sources, understand the programs the data comes from, and to define, scope out and cost research uses for the data; including refining the message, and identifying value to program planners and policy makers. Preparing these data for research is vital to ensuring that program implementation is based upon quality evidence based informed policy, and will ultimately enhance program delivery for people with FASD in Manitoba. The output from this project directly address HCMO impact goals by preparing data that ensures services and programs in Manitoba are based on strong research and evaluation, and enhances the power of the MCHP data Repository by adding another novel, dataset that facilitates research into social determinants.