Provincial Lead Medical Officer of Health, Promoting Health

Description:
 

The PLMOH, Promoting Health mobilizes partnerships and delivers evidence-informed programs and services that promote health and prevent disease and injury in the places where people live, learn, work, play and heal. Promoting Health work has broad applicability across different geographies, age groups, and settings, while being specifically tailored to meet the unique needs of populations and communities, particularly those facing health inequities. Major accountabilities span Medical Expertise, Strategic Leadership and Program Support, Collaborative Communication, Operational Excellence as well as Scholarly and Academic Activities to achieve the following mandates: Reducing chronic disease and harms associated with risk factors such as physical inactivity and ultraviolet radiation exposure. Preventing the use of commercial tobacco and vaping products, reducing harms of cannabis and tobacco, in alignment with Alberta’s Tobacco Smoking and Vaping Reduction Act. Providing leadership in addressing leading causes of injury through partnerships, coordinated efforts, and applied injury prevention strategies. Promoting health and preventing disease across the lifespan in the priority areas of sexual and reproductive health, parental, child, and youth health. Supporting oral health prevention services and delivering dental treatment for populations that are underserved. This role supports the Promoting Health team in gathering prevention data to support community-driven priority setting and develops evidence-based tools and resources, including strategy kits, implementation guides, and evaluation tools. This role promotes health by building capacity and strengthening collaborations across the Healthier Together initiative through a broad network of partnerships, capacity building, and locally led interventions within communities, schools, workplaces and health services.

• Location Details: Eligible to work remotely within Alberta
• Start Date: Negotiable

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