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Call for Applications: Alex Trebek Postdoctoral Fellowship on AI and Healthcare, University of Ottawa
August 31, 2020
Type: Postdoctoral Fellowship
Start date: Flexible (but ideally September 1, 2020)
Duration: One-year fellowship (with possibility of renewal)
Salary range: $45,000, plus benefits
Reports to: Dr. Colleen M. Flood, University Research Chair in Health Law and Policy (in collaboration with Dr. Kelly Bronson and Dr. Florian Martin-Bariteau)
Fellowship Description
We are seeking a skilled and enthusiastic Postdoctoral Fellow to pursue an innovative research program focused on the legal and ethical aspects of Artificial Intelligence (AI) applied to the health and health care sector.
The successful candidate will be supervised throughout the postdoctoral fellowship by leading health law, ethics, and law and technology scholars from the University of Ottawa together with an advisory committee of national and international scholars, as part of the new Alex Trebek Forum for Dialogue’s Project on AI for Healthy Humans and Environments.
Applicants are encouraged to propose creative ideas for a postdoctoral fellowship, emphasising how they plan to contribute to new knowledge within the domain of the application of AI to health and health care. We are particularly interested in proposals focused on regulation of medical devices and innovative approaches to regulation thereof to ensure the support of innovation whilst protecting patients and providers from a safety, quality, privacy and other human rights perspectives.
It is expected that this work will result in a series of joint publications by the end of the fellowship. Research outputs (e.g. policy recommendations and framework proposals) will be disseminated through a series of publications, white papers and other knowledge mobilization activities. The postdoctoral fellowship will focus on research dissemination and knowledge translation both within and outside the academy, and with public and private sector actors
The successful candidate will be registered as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Ottawa and will enjoy all associated privileges. This individual will have a strong background in law and, in addition, it would be helpful but not necessary to have training in ethics and/or policy.
The Alex Trebek Postdoctoral Fellowship on AI and Healthcare will support an innovative research program focused on the legal and ethical aspects of Artificial Intelligence (AI) applied to the health and health care sector.
