Medical Health Officer | Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Date published: Oct 30, 2026, 13:13 PM

Location

Island Health – Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Description

Bring your public health expertise to work that improves lives and strengthens communities. Island Health is seeking a Medical Health Officer (MHO) to provide expert public health leadership for policies, programs and services that improve population health and reduce health inequities across Vancouver Island and associated islands.

Reporting to the Chief Medical Health Officer, you'll join a team working to improve the health and wellbeing of a diverse population of approximately 916,000 people. Your public health practice can focus on urban or rural and remote population health issues, alongside region-wide leadership in areas such as health assessment, communicable disease control, environmental health, public health policy, mental health promotion, substance use, Indigenous health and injury prevention.

You'll provide medical leadership for public health services and programs, population health assessment and community engagement within assigned geographic areas. You'll also be responsible for enforcing public health legislation in those areas and, from time to time, elsewhere within Island Health.

Based on the west coast of Canada, the successful candidate will have the opportunity to practice complex Public Health medicine in urban and rural centres.



Cultural Safety and Indigenous Health Island Health is committed to culturally safe care that respects the health and wellness beliefs, practices, customs and ceremonies of First Nations, Métis and Inuit Peoples.

The MHO recognizes the inherent rights and title of Indigenous Peoples to govern themselves and act as decision makers. Advancing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action with Indigenous communities is a key priority.

The successful candidate will have:

- a medical degree (MD) and Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in Public Health and Preventive Medicine (or eligibility)
- a medical licence from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia (or eligibility).

You'll also bring demonstrated leadership, solid interpersonal and communication skills, strategic thinking, an established record of evidence-informed practice, and a commitment to teamwork, client-focused services and continuous quality improvement.

We acknowledge and pay respect to the Traditional Custodians and Elders — past, present and emerging — of the lands and waters on which RACP members and staff live, learn and work. RACP acknowledges Māori as tangata whenua and Te Tiriti o Waitangi partners in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Find out more about our commitment to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and Māori health equity.

📌 Medical Health Officer | Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
🏢 Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
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