Job Description

Shkaabe Makwa at CAMH is the first hospital-based Centre in Canada designed to drive culturally-responsive systems initiatives to achieve health justice and wellness for First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities through the advancement of research, workforce development and innovative healing models that harmonize traditional knowledge and medical expertise.

Shkaabe Makwa is seeking a full-time, permanent Scientific Director to shape the Centre’s research portfolio and develop a transformational research agenda that supports Indigenous self-determination in health, and contributes to policy, practice, and systems change. Reporting to Senior Vice President, Research and Science and Senior Director, Shkaabe Makwa, the Scientific Director will support research teams working closely with Indigenous communities, organizations, service providers, leaders, people with lived/living experience and other partners to co-develop and implement culturally-groun...