Dr. Lianne Jeffs was appointed as Scientific Director Science of Care Institute in August 2022. Dr. Jeffs is a member of the senior leadership team at Sinai Health and have strategic and operational oversight of SCI. She continues to serve as Research and Innovation Lead at Sinai Health and is a Senior Clinician Scientist with the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute at Sinai Health. She also holds Associate Professor status with the Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto.
Dr. Jeffs leads a solution-focused research program that aims to address global challenges around safety and quality gaps in our health-care ecosystems by advancing and accelerating health services and policy research. Her research program includes the following four interconnected streams:
1) optimizing the use of data and collaboratives to drive person-centred learning ecosystems and system performance;
2) enhancing workforce resilience by organizational learning and leadership;
3) co-designing, implementing, and evaluating new models of evidence-informed fundamental, compassionate care; and
4) advancing and accelerating the science and practice of health services research and policy.
Dr. Jeffs currently holds three Canadian Institutes of Health Research grants including Exploring Evolving Models of Care During the COVID19 Pandemic (Models of Care study CIHR Operating Grant) that elucidates the erosion of fundamental, compassionate care and insights for building back resilience in our healthcare workforce, The Developing and Assessing Feasibility, Acceptability, Appropriateness, and Impact of the Enabling Sustainable and SafE health care through fundamental Nursing CarE in Canada: The ESSENCE CANADA study, which involves co-designing of an evidence-informed bundled compassionate care and hygiene nursing intervention. More recently, Dr. Jeffs was awarded a three-year Health Research Team Grant - Strengthening the Health Workforce for System Transformation for the study entitled Examining and Exploring the Implementation and Impact of a Leadership Intervention on Work Life and Fundamental Care Delivery (ILC Leadership Program). This third study is examining and exploring the implementation of a leadership intervention (offered in English and French) aimed at enhancing the resilience of our health-care workforce and embedding of fundamental, compassionate care within health-care organizations across Canada.
Dr. Jeffs serves on several international board and management committees including the International Learning Collaborative (Management Board, Strategy and Policy Forum, and Research Special Interest Group and SONSIEL (Treasurer, Member, Research Committee CHIRPS). She is also the current Chair of the Canadian Practice Based Research Network (CP-BRAIN).
