Health equity Jobs in Thunder Bay, ON

Chief and Medical Director – Health Equity and Population Health

Lakeridge Health

With five hospitals, four emergency departments, three critical care units, a full range of medical and surgical specialties, and more than 20 community health-care locations, Lakeridge Health offers some of the broadest and most comprehensive range of acute care, ambulatory care, and long-term care services in Ontario. Located in Durham Region (just east of Toronto), Lakeridge Health is home to several regional specialty centres and services, including the Central East Regional Cancer Program, R.S. McLaughlin Durham Regional Cancer Centre, The Shoulder Centre, and eye care and chronic kidney disease services. Additionally, we are proud to serve our community with a full suite of inpatient, ambulatory, and community-based mental health and addictions services, as well as provide safe, high-quality, compassionate care in our state-of-the-art long-term care home, Lakeridge Gardens.

Lakeridge Health is one of Ontario’s largest community teaching health systems. There is a strong commitment to furthering our academic partnerships, building on the Queen’s University Faculty of Health Sciences Campus at Lakeridge Health, our leading-edge MD Family Medicine medical school / postgraduate program, our extensive specialty postgraduate medical education activities, and an expanding research program.

Guided by our vision of One System. Best Health. and supported by a dedicated team of more than 7,700 staff and volunteers, including 700+physicians, Lakeridge Health is focused on improving the overall health and wellness of people in Durham Region and beyond and fostering an accessible, inclusive, and equitable environment for all. Along with our essential role as a regional provider of high-quality acute care, within five years, Lakeridge Health’s goal is to become a leading health system focused on improving the overall health and wellness of the people in our region.

The Chief and Medical Director – Health Equity and Population Health is the key medical leader responsible for facilitating the engagement of LH medical staff to advance the integration of population health and health equity into the work, practices and services across the LH system. This position will play an important role in developing a vision, strategy, and framework for advancing population health in alignment with the vision, mission, and values of LH.

The Chief and Medical Director reports to the Chief of Staff and the Health System Executive - Clinical, and will work collaboratively with the Senior Leadership Team, the Medical Advisory Committee, as well as the broader leadership team, including Clinical, Medical and Service Leaders, and other internal and external stakeholders. The position spans all clinical programs / medical departments and promotes the application of quality and health equity principles to identify and advance initiatives that address population health and support better patient outcomes across communities within Durham Region.

The Chief and Medical Director will investigate best practices in advancing population health and health outcomes and develop / advise on implementation and change management strategies to advance LH’s services, culture and practices. This will include developing, operationalizing, and monitoring a measurement strategy to track progress in addressing population health outcomes, and, in turn, health equity improvement efforts.

The Chief and Medical Director will work with internal and external partners in the development and execution of a change management strategy to identify and address health equity issues within our health system impacting patients, families and team members. Additionally, the incumbent will participate and lead outreach and civic engagement strategies to better understand the needs of our communities and to raise the profile of LH and its work on the issue of health equity and population health locally, provincially, nationally and internationally.

A trusted clinician and physician leader, the Chief and Medical Director must be an outstanding collaborator and communicator with robust change management abilities. The successful candidate will hold or is eligible for a faculty appointment with our Academic Partners and an academic background in medical education and / or research in health equity, population health or another relevant area is preferred. The preferred candidate must have progressive leadership experience within complex healthcare organizations and an accomplished track record of implementing impactful health equity initiatives. The successful candidate must be licensed (or eligible for licensure) by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. Applications are welcome from candidates from equity-deserving groups and others with the skills and knowledge to advance LH’s mandate.

For more information or to pursue this opportunity, please contact Pamela Colquhoun, Partner via

Kathy Luu, Senior Associate at [email protected].

As an organization that serves the diverse communities of Durham Region, Lakeridge Health is committed to fostering an environment that promotes inclusion, diversity, and equity. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the recruitment and assessment process. If you are applying for a position, please let us know any needs you may have.