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Community and Population Health Research Training Program (CPHR) Summary
It is well known that the conditions influencing health status lie largely outside the health care system. Population health research seeks to better understand health determinants embedded in our social, economic, and political systems. Such research seeks new knowledge that will inform and influence communities and policy makers to act in ways that sustain the health of our social systems and our physical environments.
The Community and Population Health Research (CPHR) Training Program was an innovative post-graduate training initiative with an interdisciplinary approach to population health research. CPHR focused on creating new health knowledge and applying research findings through partnerships with community constituencies, community-based organizations, policy makers and government.
The CPHR Training Program was a Saskatchewan-based population health training initiative delivered by the Saskatchewan Population Health and Evaluation Research Unit (SPHERU) and supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the University of Regina and the University of Saskatchewan. Over 30 different researchers and scholars from 10 different disciplines, joined by 17 internationally renowned guest lecturers, mentored Strategic Training Fellows (STFs) in new ways of framing research questions, applying research methodologies and disseminating research knowledge to influence public policies. All STFs worked on a research project that fit within one of SPHERU’s research programs. SPHERU was also involved in applied research examining capacity-building approaches to community health programs.
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Strategic Training Fellows - Research Topics (PDF)
Visiting Scholar Presentation
