Course Description: This course draws upon theories, concepts and models from social and behavioural sciences as they apply to community-based, (participatory) health promotion, public health, population-health research.  The objective is to increase awareness of and skills in planning, implementing and evaluating population health, health promotion or public health research from a community-based, participatory approach (CBPR). The course is open to Doctoral and advanced Masters-level students in health-related disciplines.  Preference is given to students in SPPH.

Instructor: Dr. Jim Frankish

This course is offered in a Distributed Learning format.  The Course consists of weekly teleconferences and three, full-day face-to-face sessions (9am – 5pm) on Saturday September 17, Saturday October 22 and Sunday November 20 at UBC.

For more information, please contact Dr. Frankish at: 604-822-9205 or frankish@interchange.ubc.ca.