Upstream Lab

05/08/2025

Check out our August newsletter ➡️ https://mailchi.mp/e2c2702379bc/august-2025-newsletter-14765283 In this issue:

Dr. Andrew Pinto looks ahead to Upstream Lab's 10th anniversary

Apply for job and research opportunities:

🔵 Project Manager II job opportunity (deadline TODAY at 11:59 pm EDT)

🔵 Become a Community Member Advisor for our research project to help prepare Canada for a future pandemic (PREPARED)

🔵 University of Toronto international students invited to participate in a research study on navigating the Canadian healthcare system

And more!

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17/07/2025

WE'RE HIRING an experienced and driven Project Manager II to lead the coordination, implementation, and operational oversight of the PREPARED initiative (Pandemic Preparedness Engaging Primary Care and Emergency Departments). Apply by August 5: https://gen-ezjf9k52wb5ac52e-prd.tam.ca1.inforcloudsuite.com/hcm/xmlhttp/shorturl.do?key=27R

This role will serve as a central hub between academic institutions, clinical sites, research teams, public health agencies, and industry partners across Canada.

The ideal candidate is a skilled communicator, highly organized, experienced in managing large, multi-stakeholder research or healthcare projects, and passionate about health innovation and systems change.

Unity Health Toronto

17/07/2025

Upstream Lab Speaker Series: Join us to hear Dr. Karen Nicolson from St Andrews School of Medicine, Scotland speak about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), the story so far: An exploration of ACE research from a primary care perspective, key findings and the next steps in the journey.

July 23, 2025
Noon EDT in Toronto / 5 p.m. BST in St Andrews
In-person in Toronto & livestream on Zoom

📨 Contact to register: upstreamlab.comms@unityhealth.to

University of St Andrews

02/07/2025

Featured in our July newsletter ➡️ https://mailchi.mp/37f0e997e456/july-2025-newsletter-14764749
🔵 Dr. Archna Gupta's invitation to complete Dr. Tara Kiran's survey
🔵 New application deadline for Postdoctoral Fellows and Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation Master's Students
🔵 Upcoming Upstream Lab Speaker Series event with Dr. Karen Nicolson on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
🔵 Media coverage of Dr. Gupta's paper on the first survey of family doctors in India
🔵 New publications from Upstream Lab staff, students, and patient partner
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02/07/2025

Thank you Electronic Recycling Association!

ERA Supports Health Innovation!

We’ve donated a refurbished laptop to Upstream Lab , a Toronto nonprofit advancing public health through research and social innovation. This device will support projects focused on health equity and community care.

Learn more: https://www.era.ca/transforming-healthcare-research-with-electronic-recycling/

20/06/2025

📣 Call for Postdoctoral Fellows: Are you a public health researcher with expertise and interest in the following areas?

🔵 Surveillance and Detection
🔵 Patient Care and Rapid Testing
🔵 Development of Treatments, Vaccines, and Diagnostics
🔵 Clinical Trials and Patient Linkage
🔵 Health System Efficiency

Upstream Lab at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto is recruiting 1-2 Postdoctoral Fellows to work on the PREPARED study: Pandemic Preparedness Engaging Primary Care and Emergency Departments.

NEW DEADLINE: July 4 at 5 pm ET

Learn more:https://upstreamlab.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Call-for-Postdoctoral-Researchers_AP-July-4-deadline.pdf

20/06/2025

Attention master's students from IHPME! Upstream Lab at St. Michael’s Hospital has two new paid research opportunities for master’s students enrolled in a program at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. NEW DEADLINE: July 4 at 5 pm ET. Learn more about these opportunities:

Evaluating the Implementation of Multi-Pathogen Point-of-Care Testing in Primary Care and Emergency Settings: The AIM-Viral Study:
https://upstreamlab.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/AIM-VIRAL-MSc-Project-description-Final-July-4-deadline.pdf

Developing Logistical Guidelines for Adaptive Platform Trials: Lessons Learnt from COVID-19 Adaptive Platform Trials:
https://upstreamlab.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Adaptive-Platform-Trials-MSc-Project-Final-July-4-deadline.pdf

16/06/2025

WE'RE HIRING: Research Coordinator II. Join Upstream Lab to play a key role in leading the day-to-day coordination and implementation of research projects that focus on:
- developing decision aids for families for those experiencing early phase psychosis
- understanding the key ingredients that make local projects that improve economic, food, and housing security successful

Closing date: June 23, 2025
Learn more & apply: https://gen-ezjf9k52wb5ac52e-prd.tam.ca1.inforcloudsuite.com/hcm/xmlhttp/shorturl.do?key=22P

13/06/2025

Are you someone with lived or living experience of cancer, or a caregiver to someone who has faced cancer? We invite you to join the BEACON Study (Building and Evolving an Approach to Cancer Prevention by Integrating One Health) as a Patient Partner. Learn more: https://upstreamlab.org/get-involved/

04/06/2025

In our June newsletter: Get to know Upstream Lab scientist Dr. Saadia Sediqzadah ... Watch Victoria Davis's research video about AI and social determinants of health ... Apply for new jobs and research opportunities ... and more: https://mailchi.mp/b7a82fc9dbeb/june-2025-newsletter-14764308

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09/05/2025

Congratulations to Upstream Lab scientist Dr. Saadia Sediqzadah, who has been awarded the 2025 Reasons for Hope grant.

Dr. Sediqzadah and her team have received $298,000 in funding for a 3-year research project to develop a patient decision aid to guide patients, family members and healthcare providers in the management of early phase psychosis. The target patient population is 14-35 year old people suffering from psychosis, which can include schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and substance-induced psychosis.

In addition to her role at Upstream Lab, Dr. Sediqzadah is a Psychiatrist at St. Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto and Assistant Professor with the Department of Psychiatry, U of T Medicine, University of Toronto.

The University of Toronto Department of Psychiatry’s Reasons for Hope Fund supports research studies that are designed to impact the trajectory and outcome of mental illness in adolescent and young adult populations, with a focus on prevention and early detection: https://reasonsforhope.ca

08/05/2025

Upstream Lab is pleased to announce a call for applications for Early Career Researchers and Postdoctoral Fellows to join our team. You will conduct research in critical areas such as surveillance, screening, rapid testing technologies, data sharing and collaboration, clinical trials, and health system efficiency.

This initiative addresses the objectives of the PREPARED study (Pandemic Preparedness Engaging Primary Care and Emergency Departments) and seeks to engage researchers in advancing knowledge and solutions to enhance pandemic readiness and tackle health inequities.

Subject to funding, we aim to recruit one or two Early Career Researchers and one or two Postdoctoral Fellows. Successful candidates will be expected to commence their roles in September 2025.

Learn more:https://upstreamlab.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Call-for-Early-Career-Researchers-and-Postdoctoral-Researchers.pdf

Closing date: June 23, 2025 at 5 PM EST