Teaching Assistant, School of Public Health, PUBH 850

Required Number of Hours: 10 hours per week
Duration of Employment: 2026 Fall Session
Course Name, Abbreviation and Number: PUBH 850 01-Social Justice in Public Health
Start and End Dates: September-DecemberDuties: In the appointment of Teaching Assistant, your general duties and responsibilities will be as follows:

• Assist with marking exams, assignments, helping with securing guest speakers, and hosting online office hours to provide clarification on assignments and course content.
• Hosting class-based online group activities.
• Support overall course delivery and student engagement.
• You will report directly to your supervisor Dr. Holly McKenzie.

Qualifications: (Skills and Abilities)

• PhD-level or Master’s level graduate student.
• Strong background knowledge of social justice and health equity and the theories that underpin the Core Competencies for Public Health in Canada 2.0 (2025) Category 9: Health Equity and Social Justice (i.e. intersectionality, anticolonialism, antiracism, Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer theorizing, queer theory, and Indigenous and decolonizing theories).
• Research experience on social justice and health equity related projects, and/or community-based experience in social justice and health equity related fields.
• Prior experience as a TA.

Applicants without a strong background in social justice and health equity public health practice or research will not be considered.

To Apply:

• Interested applicants must include the following in their application via email: Current curriculum vitae with relevant experience highlighted in email cover letter. Email holly.mckenzie@usask.ca no later than September 18, 2026.
• Inquiries for this position can be directed to Dr. Holly McKenzie.

Where a graduate student is appointed to this position, it will be in scope of PSAC.

Department: School of Public Health
Status: Casual
Employment Group: Graduate Students - PSAC
Rate of Pay: Current rates of pay
Posted Date: 9/10/2026
Closing Date: 9/17/2026
Number of Openings: 1
Work Location: On Campus

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