Public Health Physician & Associate Medical Director, Environmental Health Services, Population and Environmental Health, BC Centre for Disease Control The BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) provides provincial and national leadership in public health through surveillance, detection, prevention and consultation and provides both direct diagnostic and treatment services to people with diseases of public health importance.

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BCCDC, in collaboration with public health partners, has a responsibility to identify and respond to provincial population and public health priorities in BC, which may shift over time.

Environmental Health

Services (EHS) provides provincial leadership, expertise, consultation, surveillance, research, policy support, and knowledge translation to uphold and advance evidence-based environmental public health policy and practice in BC. This work addresses a broad range of environmental public health issues, including exposure to environmental hazards, climate-related health risks and adaptation, food safety, poison information, and emergency preparedness and response.

The BCCDC is currently seeking to hire a Public Health Physician & Associate Medical Director, working with EHS. This is a leadership role within EHS that supports provincial environmental public health programs and services and contributes to the broader Population and Environmental Health Unit. The Public Health Physician position is a permanent position, and the Associate Medical Director role is a five-year, renewable term appointment.

Reporting to the Medical Director, Population and Environmental Health, the Associate Medical Director provides medical and public health leadership to EHS and oversight of medical staff, and, in close collaboration with Scientific and Operations leadership, supports the development and implementation of strategic directions, priorities, policies, clinical administration, program management, and quality improvement for EHS services.

The Public Health

Physician & Associate Medical Director consults, partners, and collaborates with communities, Regional Health Authorities, First Nations Health Authority, Métis Nation British Columbia, the Office of the Provincial Health Officer, the Ministry of Health and other provincial ministries, academic partners, non-governmental organizations, and provincial, federal, and international public health partners to identify and address emerging environmental public health issues.

The Public Health Physician & Associate Medical Director supports EHS and BCCDC in developing, monitoring, evaluating, and disseminating provincial public health policies, guidelines, and standards of practice that promote quality service delivery. Working in partnership with medical, scientific, operational, and public health leaders, the Public Health Physician & Associate Medical Director provides expert medical advice, contributes to evidence reviews, briefing notes, and policy recommendations, and helps strengthen provincial environmental public health practice through surveillance, evaluation, research, knowledge translation, and quality improvement.

The Public Health Physician & Associate Medical Director also supports training, mentorship, and collaboration with key internal and external partners. This includes helping integrate environmental public health and poison control through collaboration with the Drug and Poison Information Centre and providing medical input to the National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health, hosted by BCCDC.

Key activities of the Associate Medical Director include providing medical leadership and mentorship to EHS personnel; providing medical oversight for EHS medical staff, including for the medical leads of the Drug and Poison Information Centre; supporting strategic planning and priority setting for EHS programs and services; advising on operational and program decisions that affect strategic outcomes; providing medical support to delegated regulatory responsibilities; identifying and addressing capacity gaps; contributing to budget and resource recommendations as appropriate; monitoring and interpreting provincial evidence and data to recommend action where needed; and adjusting priorities as required to respond to changing population health needs.

The Public Health Physician & Associate Medical Director supports the Medical Director with medical leadership for the Population and Environmental Health Unit, which may include administrative and strategic responsibilities. They are also part of the senior leadership team at the BCCDC and a key contributor to charting the direction of the BCCDC while supporting the leadership in creating a collaborative and creative environment.

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