CPHR Program Objectives

CPHR’s objectives included: 

• Providing health research training on the following aspects of population health determinants, emphasizing research approaches that treat them as integrated rather than discrete factors: 
  
           a)  influences of change in economic globalization and governances;
           b)  community-level influences (e.g., sense of place, build environments, neighbourhoods);
           c)  influences of changing social roles (e.g., worker, parent, partner, caregiver); and
           d)  policy, community and family determinants of healthy early childhood development.

• Providing health research training that specifically incorporates theoretical knowledge from a number of disciplines in the social and health sciences; and that approaches the understanding of health determinants from multiple, hierarchically organized societal levels.

•  Providing health research training that is both policy and community relevant through a focus on building research skills and knowledge that leads to action.

• Providing health research training incorporates an appreciation of the intellectual, social and political art of research.

• Creating health research training opportunities primarily for graduate students (masters, doctoral and post-doctoral), and senior professionals fromCBOs and government policy departments. 

• Providing opportunities for interaction with and learning from provincially-based experts and mentors, in addition to nationally and internationally recognized experts in population health practice and research. 

• Developing, as a mid- to long-term objective, a Western Regional Network of Population Health Research Trainees, eventually linking graduate Trainees from other Western universities in the training initiatives described herein.

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