Transform healthcare data into practical strategies that improve patient care. As an Epidemiologist, you will help shape how a multi‑site academic health system understands risk, identifies meaningful patterns, and acts on substantiated insights. Here you’ll be a trusted partner collaborating with clinical leaders and frontline staff to shape infection control and antimicrobial stewardship strategies across diverse medical specialties. With our unique clinical landscapes, including a world-class acute care hospital and a leading rehabilitation hospital, you’ll have an opportunity to rapidly broaden your expertise across different patient populations and complex challenges. This isn’t just about enforcing protocols. It’s about creating the conditions for safer care through real-time outbreak investigations, custom tracking tools, and evidence-driven responses to emerging risks.
 

Is this you?
Are you naturally curious and analytical, energized by the challenge of understanding what's really driving infection control trends?  You’ll interpret surveillance data, review hand hygiene audits, and analyze outbreak investigations to uncover meaningful trends and connections. Your insights will help identify emerging infection risks and inform timely responses. By connecting data across audits and investigations, you’ll provide clarity where patterns are not immediately obvious.

Thriving in both autonomy and collaboration defines your working style. Working alongside infection prevention professionals, frontline staff, and leadership, you’ll align your epidemiological insights with operational needs and help align efforts to reduce infections. This is where your strong communication skills will be essential in building consensus around evidence-based prevention practices.

Comfortable with variety and shifting priorities, you might be building a new Microsoft Access database in the morning and respond to urgent outbreak questions by afternoon. This flexibility allows you to balance routine surveillance tasks with immediate infection prevention needs across both hospital sites. Your ability to pivot quickly while maintaining quality ensures that critical prevention work continues seamlessly, regardless of what each day brings.
 

About this team:
At Sinai Health, the Infection Prevention and Control team is integral to ensuring the safety of patients and staff across our hospitals. Our diverse, interdisciplinary team includes experts from fields such as infectious disease, nursing, public health, and laboratory sciences, all working together to implement practices that prevent infection transmission. We conduct surveillance, manage outbreaks, and provide expert consultation, while also contributing to education and quality improvement initiatives. Guided by Sinai Health’s values of service, humanity, inclusivity, and discovery, we work together to drive continuous improvements in infection prevention across all levels of care, ensuring our hospitals remain safe and responsive.

The Antimicrobial Stewardship team is an interdisciplinary group committed to optimizing patient care and combating antimicrobial resistance through evidence-based strategies. As a key component of the clinical quality structure at Sinai Health, our program works hospital-wide, collaborating closely with bedside clinicians to enhance antimicrobial therapy practices. We focus on sustainable, system-wide improvements by integrating behaviour change approaches and providing targeted interventions to support optimal prescribing. Our team is actively involved in collecting and analyzing antimicrobial usage (DOT, DDD), cost, and appropriateness data across units at both Mount Sinai Hospital and Hennick Bridgepoint Hospital. Through these efforts, we aim to drive measurable improvements in antimicrobial use and foster long-term partnerships to ensure continued success in stewardship initiatives.
 

In this role you will:

• Support quality improvement activities aimed at ensuring best practices in infection prevention are implemented and proactive strategies are followed to identify, prevent and control hospital-acquired infections
• Analyze quarterly hand hygiene audit results, and creates and produces reports for unit and profession based feedback
• Collect and analyze denominator data and other information needed for surveillance and program evaluation (e.g. Unit based infection control dashboard)
• Provide infection control information to patients and staff about routine surveillance activities and other infection prevention and control programs (e.g. Hand hygiene)
• Develop reports and improve reporting of infection control indicators to the hospital community
• Conduct epidemiological analysis of outbreak and surveillance systems
• Manage department intranet site: maintains, evaluates and improves the information on the site for hospital staff
• Participate in program evaluation research activities to advance the practice of infection prevention and control
• Keep current with infection prevention and control policies, procedures, protocols, literature and standards
• Perform other duties consistent with the job classification as required