Post Secondary Student

Your Opportunity:

Healthy Children & Families (HCF) is a program in Promoting Health, Partnerships and Innovation, Planning and Quality, Primary Care Alberta (PCA). HCF works closely with our partners to promote health and prevent disease across the lifespan through a range of evidence-informed initiatives and interventions that are responsive to the needs of people living in Alberta. Using a population health approach to address the needs of the preconception, maternal, infant, child, youth and adult populations, the program focuses on promoting health and preventing disease by reducing risk factors. Priority areas of work for HCF include Sexual & Reproductive Health Promotion, Early Years Health Promotion, and Student & Adult Health Promotion. The Student Intern will focus on evidence synthesis activities (e.g., literature reviews and environmental scans) and engagement with stakeholders to help contextualize the evidence to support implementation and action in one of these priority areas. This role includes opportunities to collaborate with cross-functional teams across HCF.

Description:

The Student Intern will conduct situational analyses, including literature reviews, environmental scans, key informant interviews, to make recommendations as part of an integrated planning and evaluation process. The Student Intern will become familiar with steps on the Evidence Informed Decision Making (EIDM) pathway, as appropriate: Define, Search, Appraise, Synthesize, Adapt, Implement, and Evaluate. The Student Intern will work in a high-performance team environment to provide high-quality evidence to leadership and stakeholders in both narrative/report and visual formats that are engaging and digestible. The Student Intern will gain experience in translating evidence-informed strategies to knowledge products for the end user. The final products will be evidence-informed recommendations for prevention and intervention strategies to ultimately improve the health of Albertans. The Student Intern will participate in team meetings and journal clubs, as well as program and department level meetings across Primary Care Alberta to build system awareness and professional context. Where appropriate, the intern will also attend provincial governance working groups and committee meetings to gain exposure to broader decision making processes.