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What I Have Lived For – With Thanks to Sir Bertrand Russell

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.

I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy - ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness--that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what--at last--I have found.

With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.

Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer. This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.

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Important News !!!

On September 1, 2007 the UBC Institute of Health Promotion Research (IHPR) was formally replaced by the new Centre for Population Health Promotion Research (CPHPR). The Centre is administratively affiliated with the Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP) within the College for Interdisciplinary Studies at UBC. The Centre remains located at 435-2206 East Mall, Vancouver BC V6T 1Z3, 604-822-2258, 604-822-9210, cphpr.info@ubc.ca.

Centre for Population Health Promotion Research^*

A UBC nexus for research, training & capacity-building

Room 435, Library Processing Centre, 2206 East Mall Vancouver BC V6T 1Z3
604-822-2258, 822-9210, ihpr.info@ubc.ca

New Website Under Construction (www.cphpr.ubc.ca)

Contact Information

Dr. Jim Frankish

Professor & Director, Centre for Population Health Promotion Research

College for Interdisciplinary Studies (HELP) &

Department of Healthcare and Epidemiology Medicine, University of British Columbia

Room 425, Library Processing Centre 2206 East Mall Vancouver BC V6T 1Z3

604‑822‑9205, 822‑9210, frankish@interchange.ubc.ca

Personal web ‑ www.jimfrankish.com

IHPR Web Site ‑ www.ihpr.ubc.ca

BC Homelessness & Health Research ‑ Network www.bchhrn.ihpr.ubc.ca

BC Homelessness Virtual Library www.hvl.ihpr.ubc.ca

Partners in Community Health Research Training Program ‑ www.pchr.net

Last Revised May 15^th 2008

Full CV

Newest Grant

Evergreen Boyz Research Project: Improving Young Men's Health Access

Special congratulations to Gen Creighton and Jenny Matthews who worked with our community partners at VCH to create the Evergreen Boys Research Project, and received the top score in the VCHRI competition. This is an intervention study that will examine strategies for increasing utilization and accessibility of Evergreen Youth Clinic (EYC) services among young men, 14-24 years. Currently, young men constitute only 6% of EYC clientele which reflects a larger theme of critically low health service usage by men in BC and nationwide. A number of factors contribute to this underutilization including ‘feminization’ of health services, societal pressures related to masculinity, and differing health seeking behaviours between men and women. Interventions will include: a Boyz Night series at EYC with male physician and male nurse, EYC staff training for work with young men, a promotional campaign and testing procedures, young men’s advisory meetings and research capacity building for EYC staff. Principal Investigator: Derek Roelofsen, Evergreen Community Health Centre, Mentor: Jim Frankish, UBC Centre for Population Health Promotion Research, Co-Investigators, Monica Stokl, Kristina Pikksalu, Paramita Banerjee, Gen Creighton, Jenny Matthews

Featured News Article

Home Cost Crunch: UBC's Role? - UBC: Fueling, or solving, the problem? As real estate inflation tears Vancouver's social fabric, what's a university to do?

By Jim Frankish, Published: April 22, 2008 in theTyee.ca

http://thetyee.ca/Views/2008/04/22/HomeCostCrunch/

This is a plea for all Canadians to stop and think about how we define "progress" in our cities and towns.

We are bombarded daily by the message that social well-being is best measured by economic growth and indicators such as housing starts. It is as if our only gauge of progress is more -- more housing at higher prices.

And yet, we continue to create housing that fewer people can afford. The trend should be alarming for all Canadians.

As a professor engaged in research and teaching on health inequities, I believe the University of British Columbia and its community provides a compelling case to study. The UBC Mission & Vision states that we will "promote the values of a civil and sustainable society", and acknowledge our obligations as citizens to "secure a sustainable and equitable future for all." The current situation in Vancouver suggests that the UBC community should greatly strengthen these commitments, particularly when it comes to engaging the poorest and most vulnerable.

Unreal estate

Canada Mortgage & Housing Corporation places the average resale price in 2007 for a Vancouver home at $464,500, after 10 straight years of price escalation.

Around UBC, a million dollars has become a low price for a home. The RealtyLink website on January 25th, 2008 in the UBC area showed 4 houses for sale at minimum cost of $929,000 and a maximum of $7.68 million. For 13 available townhouses, the minimum was $458,000 and the maximum was $2.38 million. The 57 listed apartments had a minimum price of $348,000 and a maximum of $1.87 million. For a typical mortgage (7 per cent interest, 5 per cent down, 5 year term, 25 year amortization), the minimum household income to purchase the average house ($3.9 million) was $1.1 million with monthly payments of $27,000. For the least expensive apartment, the minimum household income was just under $100,000, with monthly payments of $2,700. This is in a neighborhood where much of the land is leased, not owned.

In 2007, public data showed that UBC had roughly 11,748 employees. There were 12 employee groups, including union members, faculty and administrators, and some 43,000 students.

At the above prices (with two incomes per household), none of the almost 12,000 employees had a sufficient household income to purchase the average listed house ($3.9 million).

Only two per cent could qualify to buy the average townhouse ($1.2 million). Sadly, only 11 per cent could buy the average apartment ($724,000).

Finally, UBC had just over 5,000 people in six unionized groups. None of them could afford to buy any of the 74 properties above.

Slamming the gates

In sum, only 3.5 per cent of the almost 12,000 employees in Canada's third-largest university could afford to purchase property in the "neighborhood." Appropriate/affordable housing is even more problematic for the 43,000 UBC students who are generally younger and less affluent.

Magnify this problem across Canada where full-time post-secondary enrolment is expected to grow to 1.3 million in 2013.

Like many other universities, UBC can be very proud of several recent initiatives such as Community Service-Learning and the Community Health Initiative by University Students. To its credit, UBC has also built small amounts of non-market and rental housing. But as some of the foremost communities in Canadian society, our universities should be champions for change. They should be leading the charge for affordable housing for their staff and students, and for our most vulnerable citizens.

Given the obvious need and UBC's apparent resources, where is the housing for single parents, immigrants/refugees, the working poor, the homeless and low-income students in the new UBC community now taking form on and around campus?

Big long term costs

Our recent work (led by colleagues from SFU) shows that the cost of providing adequate housing and support to the absolute homeless in B.C. is $179 million. Provisions for adequate housing in the new UBC community (and elsewhere) would reduce costs for health care, corrections, and emergency shelters. There would be a net cost avoidance of $33 million per year to the province of B.C.

We in the richest neighborhoods across Canada should be doing the most, not the least in addressing inequities and improving the 'health' of our region. Why are our poorest citizens and increasing numbers of the middle class being priced out of home ownership in our towns and cities? Housing (like health services) is a "social" good that is too important to leave to the free market in Canada or elsewhere. Human well-being is not a commodity. Canadians must move toward a more sustainable model that adopts a "triple-bottom-line" mentality by giving equitable weight to our economic well-being, environmental preservation, and the promotion of social justice.

As a starting point, an immediate, cooperative and substantive investment in affordable and non-market housing for staff and students would go a long way toward meeting the vision statements of universities such as UBC. Second, we must lead and foster a comprehensive public conversation with all Canadians about the true determinants of health -- not just health care but housing, education, income, early child development, and social relations. At present, Canadian media give inordinate coverage to health care issues and largely ignore the 'non-medical' determinants of health. This coverage is at odds with our research which shows that Canadians see homelessness as an urgent social and health issue. They are eager and impatient to have their political, academic and community leaders address the health, social, legal and economic challenges associated with poverty in Canadian cities.

Walk the talk

Over the long term, universities across Canada could readily assume a place of greater regional and national leadership in "promoting the values of a civil and sustainable society." In part, this can be done by educating the next generation of decision leaders on the evidence regarding the real determinants of the health of this and future generations. Otherwise, we are all at risk of losing key opportunities and failing in our stated obligation to "secure a sustainable and equitable future for all."

The world is coming to Vancouver, and Canada, in 2010 and beyond. If we fail to change, the world will find communities that are increasingly unaffordable, inaccessible, and unfriendly.

If so, they surely won't see any real sign of "progress."

Dr. Jim Frankish is chair of the Impact on Communities Coalition, a senior scholar at the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, and professor & director at the Centre for Population Health Promotion Research, College for Interdisciplinary Studies, and Department of Healthcare & Epidemiology, UBC.

Featured Report

2007. Patterson, M., Somers, J., McIntosh, K., Shiell, A. & Frankish, J. Housing and Support for Adults with Severe Addictions and/or Mental Illness in BC, Centre for Applied Research in Mental Health and Addiction (CARMHA), SFU Vancouver.

index_files\HOUSING SAMI FINAL DOCUMENT OCT 31 2007.pdf

Featured Project

We are working to create a Population Health Implementation Centre in our Downtown Eastside. It will be home to social-enterprise activities, employment training of at-risk & street persons, community-service learning projects, mental health, addiction, legal & housing outreach services, food security/nutrition initiatives, literacy and health work, arts activities (e.g., community theatre), research, training and capacity-building around determinants of health, the conduct and evaluation of demonstration projects, and the creation and sharing of related resources that can be shared/adapted across Canada (and beyond). Notions of population health and determinants of health have gained prominence in federal, provincial & local health policy/practice. CIHR and other funders have identified population health interventions as a priority. There is a huge, obvious need to address determinants of health and related inequities in one of Canada’s poorest neighbourhoods – the Downtown Eastside. Sadly, these inequities regularly manifest in the form of mental illness and addictions. Auspicious circumstances exist in support of the creation of the above Centre. The WHO Commission provides a challenge to Canada to take strong action on determinants of health. (This would include the types of demonstration projects and ‘action’ envisaged by your Commission). In the 2010 Olympics, the world will see our health inequities in Vancouver. In a Mayor’s poll, Vancouverites rated "addressing homelessness" as the #1 expected legacy of 2010. Our Province is eager to address these concerns in lasting and innovative ways. To date, we have found a possible site for the Centre, done a building inspection, and had very positive conversations with the Sacred Heart parish about a low-cost, long-term lease of a vacant school property which they hold. The school site has additional vacant space that could be developed. We have also had positive conversations with provincial ministers regarding creation of a ‘Healthy Cities Investment’ that will provide an endowment to UBC from the $1B in annual property-transfer taxes. We have suggested 1% ($10M) per year for three years around the 2010 Games. We have strong indications of support from Stephen Owen and others at UBC, and will arrange with students from our Sauder Business School to create a full business plan for the Centre. Our collegial and collaborative relations with SFU mean that the Centre can easily involve faculty and students across universities. Our respective units and others, e.g. UBC’s Learning Exchange already have established footprints in the community. For example, we have street youth and UBC students (from 10 disciplines) teaching health literacy to other street-youth. We have applied to renew our successful, research-training program, "Partners in Community Health Research" (PCHR: pchr.net). We are applying for a Community-University Research Alliance (CURA) grant from SSHRC. Finally, we have developed connections with the Downtown Eastside Revitalization Taskforce of the Vancouver Board of Trade. These business connections will be a key to our development of social-enterprise activities, employment training of at-risk and street persons. Through VanCity and other business entities, social-enterprise activities are growing in Vancouver. The business community is also eager to support innovative 2010 legacy projects. In sum, the proposed Centre will impact health and quality-of-life in BC’s poorest community. Our work will improve the literacy, health literacy, and employability of persons in the DTES. Over times the Centre and its work will help to train the next generation of (mental) health and social science professionals. The Healthy-Cities Investment from the Province would represent a lasting legacy of that is consistent with the Vision for the 2010 Games. Most important, it will improve the living conditions, (mental) health and quality-of-life of our most needy citizens. The envisioned Centre could readily provide a long-term home for community development, demonstration projects and community-service learning and research.

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Recent Activities & Upcoming Activities

Courses

New Course! Fall 2008

Issues in Creating & Conducting Community Based Research (CBR)

In Population Health, Public Health & Health Promotion Initiatives

Instructor

Dr. Jim Frankish, Senior Scholar, Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research

Director, Centre for Population Health Promotion Research

Professor, School of Population & Public Health & College for Interdisciplinary Studies

Room 425, Library Processing Centre 2206 East Mall Vancouver BC V6T 1Z3

604‑822‑9205 frankish@interchange.ubc.ca

Purpose

CBR holds particular philosophical, ethical, practical, design and measurement issues that relate to the planning, design, implementation, evaluation and the dissemination of community based, health research. We will expose students to these issues as they relate to population health, public health, health promotion and health education initiatives.

Rationale

Many health professionals/researchers are increasingly engaged in research (and training) activities with diverse community partners. This work presents fundamental challenges regarding the creation and conduct of CBR. CBR often present unique and interesting philosophical, ethical, practical, design and measurement issues. These issues are further complicated in work with vulnerable or multicultural communities. Students, practitioners, policy makers and community representatives will have an organized opportunity to share experiences, lessons and perspectives on relevant issues. Emphasis will be placed on practical planning, design and measurement issues.

Learning Objectives

This course has the following four core learning objectives:

Ø to expose students to classic/contemporary evidence and thought regarding issues in CBR;

Ø to engage students, faculty, practitioners, policy makers, service providers and the community in a fruitful exchange of ideas;

Ø to build academic and community capacity for the ethical, efficient, and effective conduct of CBR;

Ø and to contribute to development of a cadre of competent researchers.

Intended Students

We intend this course for Masters or early PhD students in the School of Population & Public Health and graduate students from other health disciplines (with permission) including SFU health science students. Students may be drawn from the CIHR/MSFHR Research Training Program on Community Partnership Research, the Western Regional Training Centre on Health Services Research, or other local, CIHR research-training programs.

Availability of Alternative Courses at UBC

No similar courses are presently being offered in School of Population & Public Health or elsewhere at UBC. While the course may overlap with other population health courses the focus on CBR makes it unique.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for the course, however, Seminars in the Philosophy of Science and Research, HCEP 560, (or a similar course) will be highly recommended to take. Familiarity with basic issues and concepts in population health, public health, health promotion and health education will be useful.

Instruction Format

All students will participate with the instructors and guest mentors in the weekly, three-hour sessions. The instructor will also meet with each student to discuss their presentations and term papers. Selected classes will include special guest panelists from practice and policy communities from outside UBC. On these occasions the first hour of the class will be a public seminar. These public sessions will be followed by a 2-hour in-camera session with the students and the invited guests. Emphasis will be placed on problem based learning, active participation, and free expression of ideas.

Study Plan: The section below outlines the proposed focus for each class and the associated readings. Students and guest lecturers will have input into the content and format for each class.

Evaluation of Students:

Presentation of a course topic 20%

Participation in, and report on a community-service learning activity 25%

Completion of a term paper 45%

Participation in class seminars 10%

Course Duration

Wednesdays from 2 pm - 5 pm. From September 3 2008 to November 26, 2008; in Room 424 of the Library Processing Building (2206 East Mall). The first hours of 4-6 of the 13 sessions will be a joint class-public seminar. Guest presenters will be drawn from relevant community‑based research projects and organizations.

Class Schedule

1. September 3 Course Overview & Introduction
2. September 10 History & Background on CBR
3. September 17 Models, Frameworks & Perspectives on Community Based Research
4. September 24 Ethical Issues in Community Based Research
5. October 1 Participatory & Action Research in Community Based Research
6. October 8 Research Design Issues in Community Based Research
7. October 15 Planning Issues in Community Based Research
8. October 22 Implementation Issues in Community Based Research
9. October 29 Evaluation Issues I in Community Based Research
10. November 5 Evaluation Issues II in Community Based Research
11. November 12 Community Based Health Research with Special Populations
12. November 19 Communicating the Results of Community-Based Research
13. November 26 Syntheses & Strategic Directions (Papers Due)

Readings of Interest

Public health and primary care: partners in population health by Alison Hill, Siân Griffiths, Stephen Gillam. Oxford, UK ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Social determinants of health. Edited by Michael Marmot and Richard G. Wilkinson. Oxford University Press, 2006.

Social determinants of health: Canadian perspectives. Editor: Dennis Raphael. Canadian Scholar’s Press, 2004.

Community based participatory research for health. Edited by Meredith Minkler, Nina Wallerstein; San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, 2003.

Community organizing and community building for health. Edited by Meredith Minkler. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2005.

Ethical issues in community-based research with children and youth. Edited by Bonnie Leadbeater. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006.

Methods in community-based participatory research for health. Barbara A. Israel, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2005.

Community-Based Health Research: Issues and Methods by Daniel S. Blumenthal (Editor), Springer Publishing 2003.

Population Health: Concepts and Methods by T. Kue Young. Oxford University Press; 2^nd Ed 2004.

Participatory Action Research (Paperback) by Sage Publications (Editor) 2007

Participatory Community Research: Theories and Methods in Action by Jason, American Psychological Association; 2004

Participatory Action Research Approaches and Methods: Connecting People, Participation and Place by Sara Kindon, Routledge; 2008.

Recent Courses

Health Promotion Theory & Practice – Winter 2008: Mondays, 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm, January 9 - April 2, LPC 424, 2206 East Mall. 604-822-9205 or frankish@interchange.ubc.ca This course combines Health Care & Epidemiology 545 & 546 (Social Science Concepts in Health Promotion). It draws upon theories and concepts from social/behavioral sciences as applied to health promotion and population-health research. The objective is to increase awareness of, and skills in applying, selected social-science concepts in analysis of health promotion problems, assessment of needs in specific populations, and planning of programs. The course is open to Doctoral and advanced Masters-level students in health-related disciplines. Preference is given to students Health Care & Epidemiology.

Student Directed Seminar - Perspectives on Health – Local to Global

Coordinators: Nadia Formigoni and Melanie Byland, Faculty Sponsor: Dr. James Frankish, melanie.byland@gmail.com, nadiafor@interchange.ubc.ca

This course is an interdisciplinary health seminar focusing on local, provincial, national and global health issues. Guest lecturers will address topics such as drug addictions, urban & rural health, Canadian health care policy and socio-economic factors in international health. Along with the in-class course content, a community service learning (CSL) component is included in this course. Prerequisites 3^rd or 4^th year standing and a 200-word statement of interest.

Course Dates: Tuesdays & Thursdays, 4 – 5:30 pm, January 2008.

Overview of Course

Jan 08 Introduction

Jan 10 Drug Addictions

Jan 15 Homelessness

Jan 17 Health Psychology

Jan 22 Human Early Learning Partnership

Jan 24 Discussion of Community Health Issues & Introduction to Provincial Health

Jan 29 Social Geographies of Health (Healthy Communities: Act Now)

Jan 31 Urban Health

Feb 05 Rural Health

Feb 07 Topics in Youth Health

Feb 12 Preparation for Community-Service Learning

Feb 14 Preparation and Planning for CSL

Feb 19 Reading Week – CSL Projects

Feb 21 Reading Week

Feb 26 Debriefing of CSL

Feb 28 Discussion of Provincial Health & Introduction to National Health

Mar 04 Overview of Health Economics

Mar 06 CSL Presentations

Mar 11 Canadian Health Care Policy

Mar 13 Population health in industrialized societies

Mar 18 Discussion of National Health Issues & Introduction to Global Health

Mar 20 Global problems in health

Mar 25 Socio-economic factors in international health

Mar 27 Global threats to human health

Apr 01 Cultural Differences in Health

Apr 03 Discussion of Global Health Issues & Introduction to Connecting Themes

Apr 08 Synthesis of Course Material

Apr 10 Synthesis of Course Material

Upcoming Course – IHHS 200 – Determinants of Health, September 2008. Note my class section will be limited to 1^st and 2^nd year students.

Note: IHHS 200 Materials are at the very end of this website. IHHS 200 will be taught by other instructors in Fall 2007. Jim will teach in September 2008

Papers

Fielden S. Rusch M. Masinda M. Sands J. Frankish J. Evoy B. Key considerations for logic model development in research partnerships: a Canadian case study. Evaluation & Program Planning. 30(2):115-24, 2007 May.

Community-academic partnership research is a fairly new genre of community-based participatory research. It has arisen in part, from recognition of the potential role of alliances in the development and translation of applied knowledge and the elimination of health disparities. This paper reports on the learning process of academic and community members who worked together in developing a logic model for a research program focusing on partnerships with vulnerable populations. The Partners in Community Health Research is a 6-year training program that seeks to combine research, training, and practice through the work of its "learning clusters". As these types of partnerships proliferate, the articulation and exploration of clear models will assist in their implementation. The authors, coming from both academia and community agencies, present a logic model meant to facilitate program management. Key considerations in the model's development are discussed in the context of an ongoing research partnership; namely, the complexity of the research partnership, power and accountability, alignment with health promotion policy and the iterative nature of program design. Recommendations challenge academics, policy-makers, service providers, and community members to reflect on the elements needed to support and manage research partnerships and the tools necessary to ensure continued collaboration. logicmodelsandpartners.pdf

Fielden, S. Sheckter, L. Chapman, G., Alimenti, A., Forbes, J., Sheps, S., Cadell, S., Frankish, J. Growing up: perspectives of children, families and service providers regarding the needs of older children with perinatally-acquired HIV. AIDS Care. 18(8):1050-3, 2006 Nov.

Children with perinatally-acquired HIV are living into adolescence and adulthood. As this is a relatively new phenomenon, there is a paucity of research highlighting the complex issues that arise for these children. This qualitative case-study examines the needs of a select group of older children (9-16 years old) with perinatally-acquired HIV in the province of British Columbia, Canada through focus groups and interviews conducted with ten HIV-infected children, 11 family members and 11 service providers. The needs of this population are diverse, reflecting its heterogeneity. However, participants consistently highlighted issues of stigma, sexual health and mental health as major areas of current and future concern. Continued support, education and future planning in these areas are necessary for older HIV-infected children as they transition out of childhood. growingupAIDS.pdf

Frankish C.J., Moulton G.E., Quantz D., Carson A.J., Casebeer A.L., Eyles J.D., Labonte R., Evoy B.E. Addressing the non-medical determinants of health: A survey of Canada’s health regions. Can J Public Health 2007; 98(1):41-47.

healthregionsandnmdh.pdf

Background: The Canadian health system is undergoing reform. Over the past decade, a prominent trend has been creation of health regions. This structural shift is concurrent with a greater emphasis on population health and the broad determinants of health. In parallel, there is a movement toward more intersectoral collaboration (i.e., collaboration between diverse segments of the health system, and between the health system and other sectors of society). The purpose of this exploratory study is to determine the self-reported level of internal action (within regional health authorities) and intersectoral collaboration around 10 determinants of health by regional health authorities across Canada. Methods: From September 2003 to February 2004, we undertook a survey of regional health authorities in Canadian provinces (N=69). Using SPSS 12.0, we generated frequencies for the self-reported level of internal and intersectoral action for each determinant. Other analyses were done to compare rural/suburban and urban regions, and to compare Western, Central and Eastern Canada. Results: Of the 10 determinants of health surveyed, child development and personal health practices were self-reported by the majority of health regions to receive greatest attention, both internally and through intersectoral activities. Culture, gender and employment/working conditions received least attention in most regions. Conclusion: The exploratory survey results give us the first Canadian snapshot of health regions’ activities in relation to the broad range of non-medical determinants of health. They provide a starting data set for baselining future progress, and for beginning deeper analyses of specific areas of action and intersectoral collaboration.

See Report Card on the 2010 Olympic Games Olympic report.lnk

New Grants Received

Hospitals and Homelessness: The Experiences of Homeless and Under-Housed Persons, Service Providers & Health Professionals & The Emergency, Inpatient & Outpatient Profiles of Homeless and Under-Housed Persons

This new project was submitted to the Homelessness Knowledge Development Program (HRSDC) on behalf of the BC Homelessness and Health Research Network. It represents a partnership between the Lookout Emergency Aid Society, Providence Healthcare & St. Paul’s Hospital, the Salvation Army - Vancouver, the Triage Emergency Services & Care Society Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver Coastal Health and the Centre for Population Health Promotion Research at UBC. Our specific objectives are to address these research and clinical gaps by doing the following: 1) gathering new knowledge regarding the history and experiences of contact (emergency, hospital admissions, discharge) with St. Paul’s Hospital and Vancouver General Hospital in homeless shelter users and other street-involved persons; 2) gathering new knowledge regarding shelter and service providers’ experience(s) of sending clients to either hospital and receiving patients back from either hospital; 3) gathering new knowledge regarding health professionals’ experiences of receiving and discharging patients who are homeless or marginally housed persons; and 4) comparing patients (emergency, medical, psychiatric, surgical) of no fixed address with shelter users via medical chart reviews.

Public Outreach Grant - Media as an Ally in Addressing Homelessness

A 2007 Mayor’s poll ranked the City’s top priority as homelessness (25%). The most expected legacy of the 2010 Olympics was reduced homelessness Our project will to reach out to the community (providers, NGOs, media) and build their capacity to directly engage Canadians in a public conversation regarding potential policy and program solutions that will erase homelessness and improve the quality of life, social functioning and health of persons who are marginalized. Our objectives are to conduct a participatory, community-outreach project that: a) gathers information on service providers’ experiences and capacity regarding use of media and media advocacy (MA), b) conducts a needs assessment regarding providers’ use(s) of media, c) to co-host a community forum, student seminar, pre-conference, MA training workshop, and a conference session on homelessness, and d) tracks the impact(s) of the workshop on participants and their resulting MA activities. Our work has 4 Components that will occur before, during and after the International Conference on Urban Health (Vancouver, 10/08). Component I will occur prior to the Conference and will involve interviews of providers, NGOs and media representatives. The interviews will a) explore participants’ experiences in dealing with media around homelessness and b) serve as a pre-Media Advocacy Workshop (MAW) ‘needs assessment’ that will help us to focus the MAW, and maximize the payoff of the project. Component II will comprise the actual MAW that will occur immediately before the above Conference. It will also include a parallel student seminar and community forum. In Component III, a subset of project participants will take part in one-half day panel and small group presentations as part of the actual international Conference. Finally, Component IV will occur in the 6-8 months following the MAW and will entail working with the participants to track their work with local media and its impacts.

9 Year Old, Tenzin

Tibetan Orphan Adopted by Our Centre

Upcoming Presentations

2008. Frankish, J. Media Advocacy for Homelessness Workshop, International Conference on Urban Health, Vancouver, October.

2008. Frankish, J. Developing Media Advocacy Skills for Communities, International Conference on Urban Health, Vancouver, October.

2008. Frankish, J. Media Advocacy for Homelessness Workshop, International Conference on Urban Health, Vancouver, October.

2008. Frankish, J. CPHI Panel on Mental Health/Homelessness, International Conference on Urban Health, Vancouver, October.

2008. Frankish, J. Urban-Rural Homelessness, Health & Quality of Life, International Conference on Urban Health, Vancouver, October.

2008. Frankish, J. Health Regions’ Role(s) in Addressing Non-Medical Determinants of Health, International Conference on Urban Health, Vancouver, October.

Recent Grants Received

Health & Place

In collaboration with Dr. Jeff Masuda, we received a Research Capacity Development Grant from the BC Environmental & Occupational Health Research Network (BCEOHRN). The grant will be used in support of a conference and program of research on urban health.

International Collaboration" Grant from CIHR. The title is "Development of a partnership research team to study health literacy in secondary school students in Canada and other countries." The team includes colleagues from SFU and UVIC. We will bring in Dr. Don Nutbeam (V-P, U of Sydney, Australia) and Dr. Lloyd Kolbe (Founding Director, Division of Adolescent & School Health at CDC). This collaboration will provide a foundation for growing the international aspects of our research on health literacy.

Understanding Societal Attitudes To Homelessness

Previous research by our team has examined media portrayals of the causes and solutions to homelessness. The project will yield a comprehensive report on measures of homelessness and social attitudes towards homelessness (how are they formed; how does information about homelessness affect attitudes?). We will also create a searchable, web-compatible inventory of all available papers scales, inventories, questionnaires and survey tools with a) measures of homelessness, and b) societal attitudes toward homelessness.

Navigating Health & Social Services -Experiences/Needs of Persons At-Risk for Homelessness
This project will examine the experiences and felt needs of immigrants/refugees (partnership with MOSAIC) and street youth (partnership with GVRD and UBC) as they relate to housing (and associated issues. The project will yield new findings on the experiences and felt needs of immigrants/refugees and street youth as they relate to housing, and the views of service providers who help these populations. A training workshop will be held with relevant service providers to build their skills in dealing with clients who are at-risk for homelessness.

Project Health Literacy in High-Risk Youth: CPHPR is doing a project on “Health Literacy in High-Risk Youth”. The work will take place on Vancouver’s North Shore in partnership with Vancouver Coastal Health and community/government partners. We will interview stakeholders; do a scan of services, programs and policies related to health education and high-risk youth; and do focus groups with youth that will identify health-related concerns and interests, and help-seeking behaviours. Our work will contribute to development of measures and interventions around health literacy with high-risk youth. It will form the foundation for a larger, collaborative project on health literacy/health education interventions in high-risk youth.

Our Grant to the Canadian Population Health Initiative (CPHI) Population Health Program and Policy Intervention Research has been approved. IHPR has worked with the Impact on Communities Coalition. IOCC has been engaged with the Vancouver Organizing Committee (VANOC) for the 2010 Olympics. They played a key role in the Bid in that secured the inclusion of concrete ‘bid guarantees’ and the creation of an Inner-City Inclusivity Statement (ICIS). VANOC and IOCC are now faced with the operationalization of this policy document. Our work will be a health-policy analysis of decisions and actions of key policy actors as they relate to implementation of the ICIS. We will examine individual, interpersonal, organizational and structural factors that influence these decisions and nature /degree of implementation and impact(s) of the ICIS. We will draw on "theories of change", diffusion of innovations theory, and Sabatier & Jenkins-Smith's Advocacy Coalitions Framework. The work builds on our study on measurement of healthy communities. We have a chance to get in on the ground-floor of a unique (mega-event), health-related policy intervention to examine the role(s) and capacities of key actors to implement the already articulated ICIS in a meaningful way, i.e., one that will maximize the health and quality-of-life of the community.

Collaborative Grant: Our colleagues at Dalhousie University (Lois Jackson, Jean Hughes, Lynne Langille, Renee Lyons) have received a CIHR grant. We will work with them on a research synthesis titled, “A scoping review and research synthesis of community-level interventions that modify social environments and influence health”.

Student Grant: Congratulations to Sarah Fielden on getting a CIHR grant for her dissertation work. The other co-investigators are Miranda Compton, Bob Hogg, and Evan Wood. The grant title is “Development of a pilot intervention for older children and youth with perinatally-acquired HIV.”

Our Partners in Community Health Research training-program has been renewed for the remaining 3 years of the grant. We received a very positive review from CIHR. We express our thanks to our staff, mentors, and learners for their invaluable contributions.

See List of Relevant Grant Deadlines at End of Website

See List of Relevant Conferences at End of Website

all presentations from the recent international health promotion conference are posted at the end of this site.

Presentations from our Summer Institute on Literacy & Health Research are on the National Literacy and Health Research Website www.nlhp.cpha.ca/clhrp/index_e.htm. The report on the Institute will be posted soon and presentations from the Provincial Workshop will be posted on the Literacy & Health website of the Centre for Community Health Promotion Research site (UVic).

New Roles

Director, Centre for Population Health Promotion Research, 2007-Present

Chair, Impact (of Olympics) on Communities Coalition (IOCC), 2008

Member, Planning Committee, International Conference on Urban Health, Vancouver, 2008

Member, Planning Committee, International Health Promotion Conference, Vancouver

Member, Tenure & Promotion Committee, UBC College for Interdisciplinary Studies

Member, National Advisory Committee, National Collaborating Centre on Social Determinants.

Member, National Advisory Committee on Homelessness & Health Research (Canada)

Member, Psychosocial-Behavioural Research Grant Committee, CIHR

Member, VANOC Advisory Committee, Olympic Games Global Impact

Professor, Department of Health Care & Epidemiology, 2007 - Present

Professor, College for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2007

Previous Courses

Inter-Professional Health & Human Services 200 (IHHS 200): IHHS is an interdisciplinary course on the meaning, measurement and determinants of health. IHHS 200 is open to every student at UBC (with permission). The class regularly has students from several faculties and across years 1 to 5. Students can do Community Service Learning as part of IHHS 200.

Issues in Creation & Conduct of Community‑Based Research (HCEP 581)

This course will expose students to philosophical, ethical, practical, design and measurement issues as they relate to community‑based, health research (CBR). It will run Mondays 4 pm - 7 pm, September 12 2005 to December 8, 2005. The first hours of 4-6 of the 13 sessions will be a joint class-public seminar. Topics will include history and background, models, frameworks and perspectives on CBR, ethical issues, participatory and action research, research design, planning, implementation and evaluation issues, CBR with special populations and communicating the results of community-based research.

Upcoming Grant Proposals

Lay Health Ambassadors Project - Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Operating Grant. We propose to create a new project on Street Youth & Homeless. Target groups will include First Nations youth, youth who have dropped out, or are at-risk, & those who are street involved. The project will them to access, understand, appraise, & communicate information to make more informed decisions regarding their health. In turn, this would lead to positive changes in health behaviors, health status, use of health services, & quality of life. Selected youth will be trained to serve as "Lay Health Ambassadors". They will take part in a health education 'training program'. The training will be done by our community partners, our graduate students, & medical, dental & allied-health students. It will 'train' the target, vulnerable youth to provide health-literacy-education to their street-involved & at-risk peers. The "Lay Health Ambassadors" will then (with proper support) provide health-literacy education to their peers. Their peers would benefit from receiving education in areas such as sexual health, nutrition, mental health, addictions, hygiene, violence/safety, & harm reduction. This education would increase the skills & awareness of street & at-risk youth to access, understand, appraise, communicate & apply health-related information to make better, more informed decisions about their health & quality-of-life. We will evaluate the planning, implementation, process, outputs & impacts of the program in terms of changes in knowledge, awareness, attitudes, help-seeking behaviours, use of services, etc. We hope to get private sector support, & potential support from places likes the Four-Pillars Funds, HRSDC, Western Economic Development & Legacies Now (Vancouver 2010) for the job-training aspects of the work.

Cohort Study of the Impact of Supportive Housing, CIHR, September 07. This study will examine social networks & qualitative evidence of the impacts (and pathways) of stable housing on the quality of life among marginalized persons (i.e., persons with mental illness). Particular focus will be given to work & education-related relationships.

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Biographical Information

Jim Frankish is Director of the Centre Population Health Promotion Research. He is a Professor in the College for Interdisciplinary Studies, and the Department of Healthcare & Epidemiology (Medicine). He is trained as a clinical psychologist. He has a held a BCHRF Research Scholar Award and awards from the Health Way Foundation in Western Australia and the Association of Pacific Rim Universities. He presently holds a Senior Scholar Award from the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research.

His work focuses on health disparities in vulnerable populations, improving quality of life and contributing toward a civil society. He has done research on making our health-system more health-promoting and promoting more effective citizen participation in decision making. Jim has expertise in community participation in health decision-making, participatory research, development and success of community coalitions, measures of health, well-being and quality-of-life and health impact assessment, health literacy and the dissemination/diffusion of health promotion knowledge. In environmental health promotion, he has done work on principles of sustainability; community participation in wastewater management and fostering lay participation in environmental modeling. Current and recent projects are described below.

Past Activities & Positions

Associate Director, Institute of Health Promotion Research

Associate Professor, College for Interdisciplinary, UBC

Book Review Editor for Patient Education and Counselling Journal, 1999-2005

Chair, CIHR Grant Review Committee - Rural & Remote Health, 2004

Chair, CIHR Grant Review Committee - Aboriginal & Rural Health, 2005 (declined)

Chair, Behavioural Research Ethics Board, UBC, 2003-2005

Chair, CIHR Review Committee, Competition - Advancing Theories & Models, 2004

Chair, Review Committee, Reducing Health Disparities CIHR (Declined), 2005

Chair, UBC, Research Ethics - Policy & Procedures Board, 2005

Co-Chair, Research Committee, BC Public Health Association, 2006

Director, CIHR-MSFHR,Training-Program on Community Research, 2002-2008

Founder, BC Homelessness & Health Research Network, 2003

Founding Member, Canadian Consortium for Health Promotion Research, 1998

Member, Canadian Council on Learning’s “Health & Learning” Node, 2006

Member, Board of Directors, Impact on Communities Coalition, 2010 Olympics, 2003-2006

Member, VANOC Advisory Committee, Olympic Games Global Impact, 2006

Member, Advisory Committee, Health Inequalities, Government of Australia, 2003-2006

Member, Trainee Awards Committee, Michael Smith Foundation, 2002-2006

Member, Team Grants Awards Committee, Vancouver Coastal Health, 2006

Member, UBC Vice-President’s Advisory Committee on Health Research, 2006

Member, Population Health Investigator Committee, Alberta Heritage Foundation, 2002-2006

Member, Board of Directors, Lookout Emergency Homeless Shelters, Vancouver, 2003-2006

Member, Interprofessional Education Committee, College Health Disciplines UBC, 2002-2006

Member, UBC–CIHR Capacity Development Grant Review Committee, 2005-2006

Past Member, Health Policy & Systems Management Committee, CIHR, 2001-2003

Past Member, Member, BC Health Care Review Board (Guardianship Legislation), 2000-2002

Past Member, Premier's Advisory Committee on Provincial Health Goals, 2001-2003

Awards

2007: Who’s Who in Collegiate Faculty, 6th Ed 2008-2009. Montclair Publishing, New York, NY.

2003: President’s Award, Public Health Association of BC

2002 - Present: Senior Scholar, Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research

2000: First UBC Fellow, Association of Pacific Rim Universities

1998, Visiting Scholar Healthway Foundation, West Australia

1995‑1999, BCHRF Health Research Scholar

1990, APA, Outstanding Health Psychology Student

1991, Outstanding Executive Award, Vancouver Crisis Centre

1967, McDonald’s Employee of the Month

Current, Recent & Pending Projects

Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research - Senior Scholar Award: This five-year award provides support for Dr. Frankish’s overall program of research. The program of research is intended to make a contribution on conceptual, methodological and applied levels. On a conceptual/theoretical level, the research creates new knowledge on key issues including health promotion in primary care, the involvement of marginalized populations in the health decisions, and the role of health regions (and their community partners) in addressing the non-medical determinants of health. On a methodologic level, the research will yield concrete guidelines, and sets of indicators/measures for appraising key phenomena of interest (i.e., community health). The conduct of the research will offer important experience in the validation and refinement of broad measures of health, and related direct experience in working with policy makers, practitioners and community groups. Finally, the program of research has the potential to influence policy makers, researchers and key stakeholder groups across Canada. The knowledge and tools generated by the research will have utility for policymaking, resource-allocations, and the identification of health priorities, evidence-based decision making and accountability. They could also be used to train graduate students and health practitioners in important aspects of health promotion and population health.

Training-Related Research & Activities

Research Training Program in Community Partnership Research: Our six-year, CIHR/MSFHR-funded, training program is designed to attract mentors and learners with an interest in community-partnership research. Drs. Best and Frankish are the program’s co-directors. The four target learner groups are graduate students from multiple disciplines and programs, transdisciplinary postdoctoral fellows, community program managers, learners, and policy makers. The program has four objectives: - to provide research training in an integrated, transdisciplinary community-partnership approach that links research to policy and practice; to develop capacity of community-based practitioners and university researchers to engage in community partnership research that contributes to sustained partnerships; to educate researchers, policy makers, community members to create evidence for best practices; and to develop and disseminate curriculum materials. The program has 3 clusters: community health services, workplace health promotion, and vulnerable populations. The current team includes Rootman, Sheps, Yassi, Lau, Balka, Poole, Odegard, Walsh, Canam, Wagman, Thorne, Wister, Bruce, Kidd, Kopec, Joy, McCarney, Poureslami.

"Health 101": We continue to work to create ‘Health 101’ as a unique community-based course. It is being created in partnership with Vancouver's Downtown Eastside community, Health Canada and Simon Fraser University. The objectives are to reduce obstacles to university education for under-served populations (i.e., persons living in poverty, new Canadians, First Nations); to bring low-income people into close connection with UBC and SFU; to expose members of Vancouver's DTES to evidence and thought regarding the meaning, measurement and determinants of health and quality-of-life; and to build community capacity and social cohesion and social capital in the DTES. In addition to the above activities, we are engaged in directed studies and teaching related to the measurement of homelessness, the development of a health education intervention with users of a needle exchange, and the creation of health-literacy-related resources and interventions for pregnant women and recent mothers who are poor and at-risk for substance abuse.

Note: We presently teach IHHS 200 a course on the meaning, measurement and determinants of health. We also teach two graduate courses on issues in community-partnership research, and models of health promotion (and behaviour change).

Homelessness & Poverty-Related Research

We are engaged in research related to the eradication of homelessness and improving health /quality-of-life of the homeless and those at-risk. BC Homelessness & Health Research Network Project: CIHR and HRSDC fund this work. The focus is development of a research agenda for homelessness in Canada. To date, we have created the BC Homelessness & Health Research Network (BCHHRN) and a Virtual Digital Library on Homelessness research in Greater Vancouver. We are also working with several community organizations and government to improve and evaluate current administrative databases. Other planned foci and activities include: research on the health status and needs of the homeless, creation of a BC Centre for Homelessness & Health Research, and securing sustained funding for homelessness research and training in BC.

Synthesis Paper on Supportive Housing for Persons with Serious Mental Illness (BC-MoH): This work involves the creation of a major synthesis paper for the BC Ministry of Health. The focus is an analysis of the relative benefits of supportive housing for persons with serious mental illness.

Understanding Societal Attitudes Towards Homelessness (HRSDC): The eradication of homelessness will depend on political will backed up by strong societal support. This public will can only derive the public better understanding homelessness and homeless persons. In parallel, policy makers, service providers and health professionals need to understand and appreciate the level, nature and patterns of homelessness in their jurisdictions. Several jurisdictions have conducted homelessness counts. In parallel, many people are interested in measuring other aspects of homelessness and related health, social and economic issues. The proposed project will build on our analyses of media coverage and the media's portrayal of the causes and solutions to homelessness. The project will entail a systematic review of the published and grey literature on societal attitudes and beliefs toward, and knowledge of the homeless and homelessness.

Navigating Health & Social Services - The Experiences & Needs of Persons At-Risk for Homelessness (HRSDC): Recent studies suggest that a growing number of Canadians may be at-risk for homelessness. The evidence reveals that groups such as immigrants and refugees, and street youth may be particularly vulnerable. The proposed project will involve a partnership between MOSAIC, the GVRD and the IHPR at UBC. The project will examine a) the experiences and felt needs of immigrants/refugees (drawn from MOSAIC) and street youth (drawn from GVRD and UBC) as they relate to housing (and related issues). This will be done through focus groups. Second, we will explore the views of MOSAIC staff and GVRD-based outreach workers (through interviews) as they relate to their perceptions of the experiences and needs of the above clients.

2005

Service Access & Utilization for Homeless Persons with Mental Illness (HRSDC): This is a partnership between IHPR, Lookout Emergency Society, Nanaimo Affordable Housing Society, CoolAid Victoria, Surrey Family & Community Social Services, Triage Emergency Services, Covenant House, Shelter Net BC and CMHA. Phase I is an environmental scan of supportive housing and shelters. Phase II, is a needs assessment with residents and staff, and service providers. Finally, we use the BC Linked Health Database to describe the use of health services by persons with mental illness who use the relevant facilities.

Social Construction of Homelessness-Whose Fault? What Solutions? (SSHRC): We need to understand knowledge, attitudes and values of individuals engaged with homelessness. We will gather data on 'public perceptions' of homelessness. We will share these perspectives with stakeholders. We will use 4 questions: 1) what people believe to be causes of homelessness, 2) who is 'responsible' for homelessness, 3) who is 'responsible' for fixing homelessness, 4) what 'solutions' are seen as appropriate, and how does exposure to homelessness shift perspectives of stakeholders and public. Methods include a literature review, document analysis and review of news media. We will interview providers, professionals, decision makers, and homeless persons (and those at‑risk). Interviews will be taped and willing homeless will be photographed. Tapes/photos will be shown to health students. Photos/life stories will be shown in a community forum and photo exhibit. Photos will be sold with 50% of the profits going to homeless and 50% to Lookout Shelter.

Evaluation of the "Cooking Fun for Families" Program (SSHRC): The Cooking Fun for Families program, an active-learning-oriented, school-based nutrition education and health promotion program, was developed with inner-city parents, children, teachers, school administration and community centre staff as a program to help meet the families multifaceted needs in relation to food, nutrition and well-being. The purpose of our research is to conduct both a systematic process and impact evaluation of the program in ten inner-city schools in the Vancouver area. The overall research question addresses program effectiveness: what can be accomplished by the program, given the circumstances of the target population and of the amount of program support available to the implementing schools, and how do program outcomes at various levels (personal, family, school and community) correlate with implementation and personal/demographic variables at each study site and across sites. Ryna Levy Milne is the PI.

Educating Health Professionals for Social Responsibility (UBC-TLEF): Our team will survey students' attitudes/behaviours regarding social responsibility. This is key to shifting societal attitudes and actions toward the homeless.

Inner-City Inclusivity, Olympics & Health (CIHI-CPHI): Our grant to the Canadian Population Health Initiative (CPHI) Population Health Program has been approved. IHPR has worked with the Impact on Communities Coalition. IOCC has been engaged with the Vancouver Organizing Committee (VANOC) for the 2010 Olympics. They played a key role in the Bid in that secured the inclusion of concrete 'bid guarantees' and the creation of an Inner-City Inclusivity Statement (ICIS). VANOC and IOCC are now faced with the operationalization of this policy document. Our work will be a health-policy analysis of decisions and actions of key policy actors as they relate to implementation of the ICIS. We will examine individual, interpersonal, organizational and structural factors that influence these decisions and nature/degree of implementation and impact(s) of the ICIS. We will draw on "theories of change", diffusion of innovations theory, and Sabatier and Jenkins-Smith's Advocacy Coalitions Framework. The work builds on our study on measurement of healthy communities. We have a chance to get in on the ground-floor of a unique (mega-event), health-related policy intervention to examine the role(s) and capacities of key actors to implement the already articulated ICIS in a meaningful way, i.e., one that will maximize health and quality-of-life of the community.

Health Literacy, & Literacy & Health Research

We are involved in research/training activities related to health literacy – a person’s ability to access, understand, appraise and communicate information to improve their health and quality of life. We are examining relations between other forms of literacy and health. We are exploring activities such as a Canadian survey of health literacy. We are working with the Canadian Council on Learning to create a Health & Learning node in BC.

Measurement of Health Literacy (CIHR): We have a grant to develop a measure of health literacy in health promotion. We have measured health literacy in seniors and have submitted a proposal to do similar research with seniors for diverse socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds.

Literacy & Health (SSHRC): We are involved in a grant from to develop a national program of research on literacy and health. Irving Rootman is the Principal Investigator. The research involves development of a conceptual framework, a literature review and environmental scan, interviews of key informants and the hosting of planning workshops. It is related to our work on health literacy.

Health Literacy in Canadian School Children (CIHR): One of our new grants (CIHR) is a partnership with colleagues from UVic and community groups. Our focus is the measurement of ‘health literacy’ in Canadian school children and the eventual development of interventions to improve health literacy, related decision-making and health behaviours. Deborah Begoray is the PI.

Measuring Health Literacy in Senior Immigrant Populations in the Greater Vancouver Area (CIHR): Canada continues to become increasingly diverse in terms of its ethnic, racial and cultural make up. New immigrants lack formal and informal supports to help them and their families use services effectively, and this utilization is linked to linguistic, religious and cultural isolation. We know little about the factors that affect access to health care among newcomer communities such as cultural beliefs, traditional practices, literacy, and health literacy. We will conduct a large-scale qualitative study to investigate the underlying factors (i.e. literacy, language, culture, religion, and socio-economic background) that affect health literacy level among diverse groups in Latino, Chinese and South-Asian communities in Greater Vancouver Area and find the relationship between these factors.

Research on Health-System Reform & Marginalized Groups

Health Promotion in Primary Care Project (Health Canada, CIHR): This project was a 2-year grant from CIHR. Its purpose was to create a set of national guidelines for health promotion in primary care settings. We have conducted an extensive literature review, consultation with expert and focus groups across Canada, and a national survey of community health centres. Participants were asked their perceptions of the importance of a set of characteristics related to the values, processes, structures and outcomes of health promotion in primary care. The project yielded a consensus set of characteristics of health promotion on primary care in Canada. The next step will be the development and testing of measurable indicators of each characteristic. The aim is to produce a set of learning resources that will assist people in planning, implementing and evaluating health promotion initiatives in primary care settings. Two papers have been published.

Health Regions & Non-Medical Determinants of Health (CIHR): This project involves a descriptive study whose purpose is to generate a national picture of actions taken to date by health regions on nonmedical determinants of health (NMDH) and to focus specifically on those actions involving intersectoral collaboration. The project will develop (and validate) a brief screening survey instrument that will focus on indications of action and influencing factors related to health region actions on NMDH. Second, we will use the above survey to stratify regions according to their self-reported action on specific NMDH. Third, we will then conduct interviews of regional representatives and analyze specific health region documents. Through this process, we will identify and analyze self-identified exemplar initiatives associated with regional actions on NMDH. Finally, we will interview collaborators (i.e., NGOs, private sector, non-health ministries) working with health regions on exemplar initiatives. Data collected from each method will be triangulated and synthesized for use in a conceptual framework that will emerge from our work.

Children Living with HIV/Aids (CIHR): This work is the PhD of Ms. S. Fielden. The work will create and test a new psychosocial intervention to aid the children in coping with chronic illness. The co-investigators are Drs. Bob Hogg and Evan Wood. The community partner is Aids Vancouver. The aim of the project is to conduct a rigorous theoretical and empirical review that will form the foundation for an eventual intervention. The project will engage children and youth, and community partners in the development and pilot testing of the potential intervention for the children, youth and their families.

Prevention of Hepatitis C: In the past three years, we have been involved in a number of projects related to the prevention of Hepatitis C. First, we wrote a report on Hepatitis C programs in Canada. Next, we examined international lessons in Hepatitis C prevention. Lastly, we produced a legacy report on “The First 5 Years of Health Canada's Hepatitis C Program (1999-2004). The team included Terri Buller-Taylor, Glen Moulton, Treena Chomik, Dawne Milligan, Brenda Kwan, Julieta Flores, and Darryl Quantz,

Adolescents’ Concepts of Depression & Related Help-Seeking: An operating grant from the Lions-Gate Healthcare Foundation funds this project. The co-investigators are Drs. Jane Garland and Kim Schonert-Reichl. The project director is Czesia Fuks Geddes. The community partners are several local school districts. The project has collected information on boys and girls from Grades 8 and 10. It will provide important new knowledge regarding youth-related concepts of mental illness (i.e., depression) and their related perceptions of how they might seek help for related concerns.

Mid-Life Health Interventions for Healthy Aging (SSHRC): This project is funded by a Community Alliance for Health Research grant (CIHR). Dr. Allan Best leads it. The project is designed to develop and test systems of evidence-based decision-making for regional health services. Three BC regional health districts, and three universities are partners in creating common information systems and mutual learning opportunities within and across communities. The focus is on midlife: how do lifestyles, patterns of care (self, informal, formal), quality of life (including physical, mental, and social health, and functional capacity), and health status change over time with aging, and what are the implications for integrated health promotion, self-help, care and cost-containment?

Federal Capacity for Population Health (Health Canada): This project examined perspectives of key informants on the role of the federal health sector in addressing determinants of health. It also looked at informants' views of how intersectoral collaboration is occurring between the health sector and other sectors of government and society. More specifically, respondents were asked about key aspects of a potential 'national strategy and the related roles/responsibilities of Health Canada and other key stakeholders. Perceived barriers or opportunities were identified and information on relevant international models is included. The objective was to provide an initial analysis of expert opinion about the roles of the health sector and federal health department in addressing the determinants of health.

Research Related to Measuring the Health of Communities

Development of a Report Card on Impacts of the 2010 Games on Our Health & Quality of Life (VANOC): All of Vancouver wants the best Olympics. The Impacts of the Olympics on Community Coalition (IOCC) is working with IHPR and the community to create a 'Report Card' for tracking and evaluating the impacts of the Games on determinants of health and quality of life. The Card will examine the physical environment, jobs and the economy, accountability and transparency and people including issues such as housing, transportation, safety and civil rights. It will draw on close partnerships and support from government and the Olympic community. Our hope is to provide important information to the public, community leaders, media and government on the positive and negative impacts of the Games on our health and quality of life. Our aim is to move beyond simply reducing the potential harm(s) of the Games to maximizing their potential for creating a healthier community for us all. Dr. VanWynsberghe is the PI.

Measuring Community Capacity (Health Canada): The Health Policy Research Program of Health Canada issued a request for a synthesis/analysis of evidence on the operationalization and measurement of community capacity. Our project will deliver the requested analyses and synthesis by examining the following: available knowledge on theoretical frameworks, statistical analyses and the evidence base on measuring community capacity and health; gaps in the literature, best practices, measurement or assessment methods, models of engagement and evaluations of relevant community-based programs.

Measures of Community Health (CIHI-CPHI): We wrote a report that led to inclusion of measures of community health in the national, Canadian Community Health Survey. In turn, this led our grant from the Canadian Institute for Health Information. Our work examined use of indicators of the health of communities across Canada. The project yielded a searchable database of indicators and a set of learning resources that will assist people in planning, implementing and evaluating community health initiatives.

Quest - Georgia Basins Future Project (SSHRC): The GBFP project was funded by SSHRC and several other partners. It examined the 'preferred future' for the greater Vancouver regions as it relates to ecosystem health and sustainability. Quest is a computer simulation software that can be used to engage various audiences in the appraisal of 'scenarios. We were involved in the 'community engagement' portion of the project that examines strategies to engage various communities in decision-making around ecosystem health. One interest is the question of behaviour change and environmental stewardship. One paper is published.

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Titles of Funded Research Projects (As Principal Investigator, Co-Investigator or Collaborator)

Alberta Heritage Foundation

Participatory Research in Health Promotion

B.C. Children's Hospital Telethon

Paediatric Antibiotic Resistance

BC Environmental & Occupational Health Research Network (BCEOHRN)

Research Capacity Development Grant

B.C. Health Research Foundation

2nd National Conference on Health Promotion Research

Case Study of B.C. Health Goals

Community Participation in Health Decisions

Community Health & Septic Field Failure

Creative Therapy with the Disabled

Health Promotion & Pharmacists

Planning For Health In Delta

West End Youth Project

B.C. Heart & Stroke Foundation

B.C. Stroke Needs Assessment

B.C. Medical Services Foundation

Barriers to Smoking Bylaws

Paediatric Antibiotic Resistance

B.C. Ministry of Health

2nd National Conference on Health Promotion Research

Evaluation of the B.C. Heart Health Project

Development of Provincial Tobacco Policy

Review of Retail Tobacco Warning Signs

Evaluation of Sir Ringe Needle Safety Program

Review of Smoking Cessation Programs

Canadian Council on Learning

Assessing Video Health Literacy in Ethnic Communities

Canadian Fitness & Lifestyle Research Institute

Active Living & Mental Health

Worksite Smoking Cessation

Canadian Mental Health Association ‑ B.C.

Evaluation of Mental Health Education Resources

Canadian Population Health Initiative CIHI

Measures of Community Health

Olympics & Inner-City Commitments

Canadian Institutes for Health Research

Community Partnership Research Training Program

Development of Measures of Health Literacy for School Populations

Environmental health in Cuba

Health Literacy

Health Promotion in Primary Care

Health Regions & Nonmedical Determinants of Health

Homelessness & Health Research Development Grant

Homelessness & Mental Health

International Collaboration for Health Literacy

Mid‑Life Health Interventions

Oral Health Disparities

Research Training Program

Work‑Related Arthritis (withdrew)

Socioeconomic Disparities in Oral Health

Drug Industry

Health Promotion & Pharmacists

Hampton/HSS Fund‑UBC

Community Asset Mapping

Principles of Stewardship & Health Promotion

Psychology & Heart Disease

Stress & Coping: in Students Mothers

Health Canada (includes NHRDP)

2nd National Conference on Health Promotion Research

Adolescent Depression

Air Quality in Canadian Schools

B.C. Consortium for Health Promotion Research

Canadian Conference on Diffusion & Dissemination Research

Canadian Experience Intersectoral Action & NMDH

Evaluation of B.C. Heart Health Project

Federal Capacity for Population Health

Health Impact Assessment as a Tool for Public Policy

Health Promotion in Primary Care

Health Promotion Workshop

Hepatitis C in Canada

Hepatitis Legacy Report

Indicators of Community Health

Injury Prevention in First Nations

International Lessons in Hepatitis C Prevention

Issues in Population Health

Lay Report ‑Injury in First Nations

Lay Report -Injury in First Nations

Linking Health Research & Policy

Making Research Results Meaningful

Measurement of Community Capacity

Measuring Community Health

Mental Health as a Determinant of Health

Mental Health System as a Determinant of Health

National Conference on Population Health

National Study of Health Goals

Participatory Research in Health Promotion

Partners in Health Promotion Workshop

Secondary Analysis of Hepatitis C in Canada

Summer Institute on Health Promotion Planning

Workbook for Participatory Health Promotion

Working Forum - Health Promotion

Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada

Canadian Conference Dissemination Research

Human Resources (and Skills) Development Canada

Homelessness in the GVRD

Homelessness Digital Library

Homelessness & Mental Health

Measuring Homelessness

Navigating the Health System by Homeless Persons

Attitudes toward Homelessness

Effects of Hospitals Discharge on Homeless Persons

Insurance Corporation of B.C.

Adolescent Risk Behaviours

Lion’s Gate Research Foundation

Adolescents’ Concepts of Depression

Medical Research Council

National Conference Shared Responsibility for Health Impact Assessment

Canadian Conference on Dissemination Research

Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research

Senior Scholar Award

Research Training Grant

Infrastructure for Reducing Health Disparities

Municipality of Delta, B.C.

Diagnosis of Community Resources

National Cancer Institute of Canada

Canadian Conference on Dissemination Research

Ontario Ministry of Health

National Conference on Population Health

Provincial Health Services Authority

Homelessness & Housing Bibliography

Homelessness & Housing

Rick Hansen Institute

Needs Assessment Study of Canadians with Spinal Cord Injury

Royal Society of Canada

Participatory Research in Health Promotion

Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council

Canadian Conference on Dissemination Research

Impact of 2010 Olympics

Literacy & Health

Participatory Research in Health Promotion

Schools & Community Nutrition

Schools, Poverty & Nutrition

Social Construction of Homelessness

Media Advocacy & Homelessness

UBC-TLEF

Educating Health Professionals for Social Responsibility

Vancouver Coastal Health

Evaluation of Population Health

Health Literacy & High-Risk Youth

Evaluation of Breakfast & Community Health Program for Homeless Persons

Factors Influencing Men’s Use of a Community Health Centre

Vancouver Foundation

Paediatric Antibiotic Resistance

Urban-Rural Migration & Health Services & Status in Homeless Persons

Youth Health Education Project

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Teaching Activities

Undergraduates: I have taught Psychology as a sessional instructor. These courses typically involve large (> 100) or medium-sized classes (20-40) students. I have taught abnormal (300) and health psychology (314). I consistently received above-average evaluations.

Graduate-Level Teaching: Second, I have taught a doctoral-level course (HCEP 545) in the Faculty of Medicine for several years. This course examines the role of sociobehavioural theories and models in health promotion. He has also taught other graduate courses in Health Care and Epidemiology. In the context of the Partners in Community Health Research Training Program, he has taught courses on transdisciplinary research and ethical issues in community research. A new course will focus on overall issues in the planning, implementation and evaluation of community research.

Interdisciplinary Teaching: In 2000, we conceived and designed a unique, undergraduate course on the meaning, measurement and determinants of health. This course (IHHS 200) is co-taught with Dr. Aleck Ostry and is open to every student at UBC. He is writing an undergraduate text on the meaning, measurement and determinants of health. Next, he is designing a Health 101 course that will complement UBC's Downtown Presence Initiative and build on the highly successful Humanities 101 presently offered to community participants from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, Canada's poorest community.

Tutoring, Directed Studies & Episodic Teaching & Mentoring: Dr. Frankish is involved in three other forms of teaching. He has tutored medical and dental students through the Doctor, Patient and Society program. He has also contributed to a health promotion module in close consultation with colleagues in Health Care & Epidemiology (HCEP). Second, he has taught several graduate students from Nursing, HCEP and Community Medicine through directed studies and clerkship-related courses. For example he has given lectures on population health to community medicine residents. Finally, he has helped to design and run workshops on topics such as participatory research and program evaluation, and weeklong Summer Institutes on health promotion planning and evaluation that have drawn local, national and international participants.

Supervising & Advising Students: At IHPR, I have been directly involved in the supervision of many doctoral and masters students (20 interdisciplinary 49 departmental students). He has served on the committees of graduate students from Audiology, Adult Education, Commerce, Counselling Psychology, Health Care and Epidemiology, Human Kinetics, Nutrition, Pharmacy, Resource Management, Regional Planning and the Individual Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies Program. He has also supervised students from Deakin University (Australia) and University of Limburg (Holland). His students have gone on to academic and governmental positions. Several are actively involved as health professionals and decision makers. Overall, I have done research with colleagues from more than 35 departments or disciplines. My students have gone on to academic or government positions or are health professionals and decision makers. The above does not include advising of current/potential students. I see 6-10 students/month. IHPR is home to interdisciplinary and departmental students. More than 60 students have undertaken thesis-related work with IHPR. Our Training Program attracts students from many disciplines and has allowed us to create community learners.

Ad-Hoc Mentoring & Advising: The above activities do not include regular mentoring and advising of current and potential graduate students. Dr. Frankish sees 8-10 students per month, who are interested in health promotion or a related discipline. IHPR is a major home to interdisciplinary and departmental graduate students. To date, more than 50 students have undertaken thesis-related work in association with IHPR.

Courses Taught at UBC

Ethical Issues in Community-Based Research: Graduate course on key ethical issues & strategies

Issues in Transdisciplinary Community-Base Research: Graduate course on issues and models in undertaking transdisciplinary

Issues in Community-Based Research: Graduate course on key issues in the planning, implementation and evaluation of community research.

Health Care & Epidemiology: Doctoral course on theories and models of behaviour change and health promotion.

Interdisciplinary Health & Human Services (IHHS 200): Innovative, undergraduate course on the meaning, measurement and determinants of health.

Resource Management & Environmental Studies (RMES500D): Supervised directed studies on behaviour change as it relates to environmental sustainability

Doctor, Patient & Society (DPAS): Tutoring medical and dental students in topical health issues.

Health Psychology (PSYC 314): Course on health psychology and behavioural medicine.

Abnormal Psychology (PSYC 300): Course on adult and child psychopathology and mental disorders.

Nursing Directed Studies (Nursing 590): Supervised directed studies on health promotion and sexual and reproductive health of South Asian women.

Graduate Students (* = Current Student)

Bustamante A. ‑ PhD Poli Science, HIV & community development in Latin America

Carson, A. PhD, Audiology ‑ Experiences of elderly women with hearing loss

Chomik, T. IISGP, Health goals development in B.C.

Davidson, A. PhD, Health Care & Epidemiology ‑ Health care reform in BC

Dewhirst, T. PhD. IISGP, Tobacco advertising and health

Dorion, Lori Masters Adult Education ‑ Training in health promotion programs

Dyck, L. Masters Human Kinetics ‑ Exercise in low‑income single mothers

Edinburgh, M. PhD. RMES, Ecological perspective in food product development

Evoy, B. PhD, Interdisciplinary: IISGP, Decision making and targeted health services *

Fielden, S. PhD IISGP, HIV & Aids in children and youth *

Folz, H. M.A. Planning, Environmental health and health promotion

Fuks Geddes C. ‑ PhD IISGP, Adolescent depression and help‑seeking

Gerbrandt (Flores) J. MSc Nutrition, Food security in persons with disabled *

Judd, J. PhD Community Health Deakin University, Role of health promotion managers

Kelly, S. PhD IISGP, Self‑rated health

Kotb, M. Post‑Doctoral Fellow, PCHR

Kwan, B. M.Sc., Health Care & Epidemiology ‑ Public participants in the VRHB

Lavack, A. PhD, Commerce ‑ Fear appeals in social marketing

Macnaughton, E. PhD IISGP, Mental health promotion *

Maggi, S. PhD, HCEP, Development of adolescent health behaviours

Maskill, J. MHA, Homelessness & health services *

McNamara, D. M.A., Counselling Psychology ‑ Experiences of mental health consumers

Miller, C. ‑PhD HCEP, Reducing needle sharing in IV drug users

Miller, J. MSc, HCEP, Tobacco bylaws in the GVRD

Milligan, D. PhD, IISGP, School, community and nutrition in the DTES *

Mills, S. PhD, IISGP, Living well with chronic illness

Moulton, G. MA. Education, Accessibility and community health centres

Newman, A. MHA, Health promotion and planning

Niks, M. Post ‑Doctoral Fellow, PCHR *

Nixon, Sean, MSC HCEP, Health education in street youth *

Olsen L. ‑ PhD IISGP, Injury prevention in the home

Paluck, E. PhD, IISGP ‑ Pharmacist‑Client Communications

Phipps R., MSc. Leadership, Royal Roads University ‑ Health promotion funding

Reid, C. M.Sc. Human Kinetics ‑ Health and wellness services for single moms

Richardson, C. PhD IISGP. Analysis of measures of mental health in the NPHS

Rivtovski, S. PhD Nutrition, Community nutrition *

Salomon K. ‑ MSc, HCEP, Social capital in resource communities

Savelson A. ‑ M.A. RMES, Health promotion and environmental stewardship

Steeves (Mozel) M, M.Sc., Health Care & Epidemiology‑ Continuity of care and ADHD

Stevens, S. MA, Planning, Mapping community assets for health

White, J. Ed.D. Program planning in mental health

Williams, P. PhD, IISGP, Infant iron status & sociocultural issues

Willis, S. PhD, IISGP Weight‑training and bone density

Wong, D. M.Ed. Adult Education ‑ Health promotion and adult education

NOTE: In addition to formal graduate students, I also directly or indirectly supervised the following 51 'learners' in our CIHR-MSFHR-funded, research-training program (PCHR). We created the concept of 'community learner' i.e., a mid-career person, who takes part in our training program. We thereby aim to build the 'receptor capacity' of our government and community partners to receive and use research skills and findings in their work.

PCHR Graduate Students & PDFs (N = 40)

R. Anderson, Y. Araki, M. Broughton, G. Creighton, J. Dixon, J. Egan, J. Ellison, B. Evoy, S. Fielden, R., Fujii. L. Hamilton, G. Hammond, N. Kahnamoui, J. Maskill, J. Masuda, J. Matthews, J., Krajnak, B., Kung, R. Kling, S. Koehn, M. Kotb, E. Macnaughton, C. Miller, G. Miller, R. Milord, A. Newton, M. Niks, S. Nixon, N. Panina-Beard Natasha, C. Richardson, M. Rusch, G. Sivia, D. Smutylo, J. Terpstra, K. Thomas, D. Van Sant, S. Van Wiltenburg Shannon, R. Vukovic, K. Zhao.

Community Learners (N = 25)

M. Broughton, E. Calder, A. Crabtree, B. Crocker, A. Dauphinee, J. Douglas, B. Evoy, B. Fair, N. Hariri, D. Harrison, L. Kingsbury, V. Long, D. Kirpalani, R. Klein, T. Lu, E. Macnaughton, M. Masinda, A. Miller, J. Morrison, D. Ross, J. Sands, S. Scharf , C. Sidebottom, J. Solarazano, J. Thompson, K. Zhao.

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Publication Record

Peer-Reviewed Articles

2008. Frankish J. Working with Marginalized Groups in Urban Settings. Invited Chapter in Vollman A. (Ed.) Canadian Community as Partner, 2^nd Edition, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

2007. Fielden S, Rusch M, Masinda M, Sands J, Frankish J. & Evoy B. Key Considerations for Logic Model Development in Research Partnerships: A Canadian Case Study, Evaluation & Program Planning. Evaluation & Program Planning. 30(2):115-24.

2007. Frankish J, Moulton G, Quantz D, Carson A, Casebeer A, Eyles J, Labonte R, Evoy B. Addressing the non-medical determinants of health: A survey of Canada’s health regions. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 98(1):41-47.

2006. Moulton G, Frankish J, Rootman I, Cole C, Gray, D. Building on a Foundation: Strategies, Processes and Outcomes of Health Promotion in Primary Health Care Settings, 7 (3), 269-277.

2006. Miller C, Spittal P, Frankish J, Li K, Schechter T, Wood E. Binge Drug Use Independently Predicts HIV Seroconversion Among Injection Drug Users: Implications for Public Health Strategies. Substance Use and Misuse, 41:199–210.

2006. Frankish J, Moulton G, Rootman I, Cole C, Gray D. Setting a Foundation ‑ Values & Structures as a Foundation for Health Promotion in Primary Health Care. Primary Health Care Research & Development, 7 (2), 172-182.

2006. Fielden S, Sheckter L, Chapman G, Alimenti A., Forbes J, Sheps S, Cadell S, Frankish J. Growing up: Perspectives of children, families and service providers regarding the needs of older children with perinatally-acquired HIV. AIDS Care, 18(8), 1050-1053.

2006. Broughton M, Janssen P, Hertzman C, Innis, S. & Frankish, J. Predictors and Outcomes of Correlates of Food Insecurity Among Inner-City Families with Preschool Children in Vancouver. Canadian Journal of Public Health. 97(3):214-218.

2005. Savelson A, VanWynsberghe R, Frankish J, Folz H. Application of a health promotion model to community-based, environmental health planning, Local Environment, 10(6).

2005. Miller C, Spittal P, Frankish J, Li K, Schechter M, Wood E. HIV and hepatitis C outbreaks among high-risk youth in Vancouver demands a public health response. Canadian Journal of Public Health. 96(2):107-8.

2005. Frankish J, Hwang, S, Quantz D. Synthesis Paper: Lessons in the prevention and treatment of homelessness in Canada. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 96; S23-S30.

2004. Rootman I, Gordon-El-Bihbety D, Frankish J, Hemming H, Kaszap M, Langille L, Quantz D, Ronson B. Toward an Agenda for Literacy and Health Research in Canada. Literacies (2), 2 November.

2004. Miller C, Wood E, Spittal P, Li K, Frankish J, Braitstein P, Montaner J, Schechter M. The future face of coinfection: prevalence and incidence of HIV and Hep C coinfection in young injection drug users. Journal of Aids. 36(2) 743-749.

2003. Williamson D, Milligan D, Kwan B, Frankish J, Ratner P. Implementation of Provincial - Territorial Health Goals in Canada. Health Policy. 64, (2), 173‑191.

2003. Shakeshaft A. & Frankish J. Using patient‑driven computers to provide cost‑effective prevention in primary care: a conceptual framework. Health Promotion International. 18: 67‑77.

2003. Paluck E, Green L, Frankish J, Fielding D. Haverkamp B. Assessment of communication barriers in community pharmacies. Evaluation & the Health Professions. 26(4):380‑403.

2003. Miller C, Spittal P, Li K, Laliberte N, Frankish J, Shoveller J, Schechter M. Foster Care, Sexual Abuse, and Being Female Predict Younger Age at First Injection. Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases, March/April, Vol.14, Supplement A.

2003. Miller C, Li K, Laliberte N., Spittal P., Frankish J., Shoveller J. & Schechter M. Higher Prevalence & Incidence of HIV/Hep C and Risk Factors Among Young Aboriginal Injection Drug Users. Can J of Infectious Diseases, March, 14, Supp A.

2003. Frankish J, Quantz D, Stevenson S, Clemmer, S. Development of a homelessness research agenda: Lessons from BC. Proceedings International Conference on Inner City Health, Toronto, October in Journal of Urban Health, 2002, 79(4), S153.

2002. Frankish J, Larsen C, Ratner P, Wharf Higgins J, Kwan, B. Social and political factors influencing the functioning of regional health boards in British Columbia (Canada). Health Policy, 61(2):125-51.

2002. Frankish J, Kwan B, Larsen C, Ratner P, Wharf Higgins J. Challenges of citizen participation in regional health authorities. Social Science & Medicine, 54(10):1471‑80.

2001. Paluck E, Williamson D, Milligan D, Frankish J. The Use of Population Health and Health Promotion Research by Regional Health Authorities in Canada. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 92(1):19‑23.

2001. Paluck E, Katzenstein D, Frankish J, Herbert C, Milner R, Speert D, Chambers K. Prescribing practices and attitudes toward giving children antibiotics. Canadian Family Physician. 47:521‑527.

2001. Judd J, Frankish J, Moulton G. Setting standards in the evaluation of community‑based health promotion programmes—a unifying approach. Health Promotion International, 16(4):367‑80.

2000. Ottoson J, MacDonald G, Pommier J, Frankish J, Dorion L. Excavating Landscape in Health Education & Health Promotion Training International J of Health Promotion & Education Special issue on training in health promotion. 7(1):10‑4, 62.

2000. Frankish J, Zamluk R, Drake R, Leonard R. Community participation and water management: lessons from a community-driven, waste management planning process. Proceedings of Watershed 2000.

1999. Frankish J, Veenstra G, Moulton G. Population Health in Canada. Canadian Journal of Public Health, Special Supplement on National Conference on Shared Responsibility for Health & Social Impact Assessments. Vancouver, S71‑75.

1999. Frankish J, Veenstra G, Gray D. Editors' introduction. Shared Responsibility for Population Health CJPH. 90, 1:S5-6.

1999. Chomik T, Frankish J. Factors that facilitated and challenged the development of health goals and targets: the BC experience. Canadian Journal of Public Health 90 Suppl 1:S39-42,

1998. McIntosh J, Frankish J, Drake R, Norris B. Community knowledge and behaviours regarding septic systems and the environment: results of a Baynes Sound Environmental Survey. Environmental Health Review, Spring, 11‑16.

1998. Linden W, Frankish J. Expectancy and type of activity: effects on pre-stress cardiovascular adaptation. Biological Psychology, 27, (3), 227-235.

1998. Frankish J. Principles of Authorship in Health Promotion Research. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 89(2), 81-85.

1998. Frankish J, Milligan D, Reid C. A review of relationships between active living & determinants of health. Social Science & Medicine, 47(3):287-301.

1998. Frankish J, Green L. A Contextual Approach to Health Promotion: Linking Time, Space & Person in Health Promotion. Proceedings of Vitality throughout Adult Lifecycle: Interventions to Promote Health, U of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.

1997. Ratner P, Frankish J, Green L, Chomik T, Larsen C. Setting the stage for health impact assessment, Journal of Public Health Policy, 18(1), 67-79.

1997. Green L, Frankish J. Implementing nutritional science for population health: Decentralized & centralized planning for health promotion/disease prevention. in Garza C, Haas J, Habicht J, Pelletier D. eds., Beyond Nutritional Recommendations: Implementing Science for Healthier Populations, Ithaca, NY: Cornell U & National Academy of Science, 230‑245.

1997. Frankish J. Psychologists and mental health: A recommended approach (1-3). In D. Nicholls (Ed.), Psychologically Speaking. Sept.

1997. Frankish J, Johnson J, Ratner P, Lovato C. Relationship of Organizational Characteristics of Canadian Workplaces to Anti-smoking Initiatives, Preventive Medicine, 26, (2), 248-256.

1997. Clarke V, Frankish J, Green L. Understanding suicide among indigenous adolescents: a review using PRECEDE model. Injury Prevention.3(2):126-34.

1996. Johnson J, Green L, Frankish J, Maclean D, Stachenko S. A dissemination research agenda to strengthen health promotion and disease prevention. Canadian Journal of Public Health (47), Supplement 2, S5-S10.

1996. Frankish J, Linden W. Spouse-pair risk factors-cardiovascular reactivity. J of Psychosomatic Research, 40(1), 37-51.

1996. Frankish J, Green L, Maclean D, Stachenko S. (Editors). Proceedings of the National Conference on Dissemination Research, Vancouver, March, 1995. Canadian Journal of Public Health, (47), Supplement 2.

1996. Bass M, Frankish J. Dissemination research in primary care: Impacting the real world of the practitioner. Can Journal of Public Health. 87(SUPPL. 2)(pp S71-S74).

1995. Green L. & Frankish J. Finding the right mix of personal, organizational, community and centralized control in planning, implementing and sustaining health promotion. State of Art & Recommendations for the Future. Seattle, Henry J. Kaiser Foundation.

1995. Green L, Frankish J, Blair L. Implementing science for population health: organizational, community & centralized planning for health promotion & disease prevention. Squibb/Johnson Research Symposium, Washington, D.C., June.

1995. Frankish J. Role of information in health promotion: program & policy implications. Recovery, 12, 10-14.

1994. Green L, Frankish J. Theories and principles of health promotion applied to asthma prevention, Chest, 106, (4, Supplement S), S219-S230.

1994. Green L, Frankish J. Organizational and community change as the social scientific basis for disease prevention and health promotion policy, Advances in Medical Sociology, Volume 4, pgs. 209‑233.

1994. Frankish J. Media advocacy and health promotion, Recovery, 10, 15-20.

1994. Frankish J. Crisis centres & role in treatment: health promotion versus suicide prevention. Death Studies, 18(4),327‑340.

1993. Green L. & Frankish J. Health and social policy: individuals and communities versus central (national, state, provincial, corporate) policies in health promotion. Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, Washington, March.

1993. Green L, Frankish J, Higgins J. Scientific bases for heart health policy, Canadian J Cardiology, 9, Supp D, 50D-51D.

1992. Frankish J, McLean P. The development, treatment and prevention of social inadequacy or avoidance with particular reference to adolescent depression and suicide. Canada's Mental Health. 40, 2; 30.

1991. Turner R, Frankish J, Phillips N. Physical disability and health services utilization. in G. Albrecht & J. Levy, (Eds.), Advances in Medical Sociology: a Research Annual, Volume 2, ppg 269-299, JAI, Greenwich, CT. [I wrote the original draft of the paper.]

1991. Frankish J, Linden W. Is response adaptation a threat to the high-low reactor distinction among female college students? Health Psychology.10(3):224-227.

1985. Linden W, Frankish J, McEachern H. The effect of noise interference, type of cognitive stressor, and order of task presentation on cardiovascular activity. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 3, 67‑74.

1982. Lawson D, Frankish J. Anticipated versus unanticipated fitness assessment and dropout following exercise prescription. Journal of Behavioral Assessment, 4, (4), 287-297.

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

2008. Frankish J, Lovato C, Poureslami, I. Models, Theories and Principles of Health Promotion in Multicultural Populations in R. Huff & M. Kline, Editors, Promoting Health in Multicultural Populations, Second Edition, Sage.

2007. Fuks Geddes C, Fielden S, Frankish J, Determinants of adolescent health in Adolescent Health, Edited by L. Foster & R. Tonkin, University of Victoria Press, Victoria.

2006. Rootman I, Kaszap M, Frankish, J. Health literacy – an emerging concept. Pederson A., O'Neill M., Rootman I. & Dupere, S. (Eds.). Health Promotion in Canada: Provincial, National and International Perspectives, Second Edition, W. B. Saunders Company, Toronto.

2006. Frankish J, Hills M. La promotion de la sante en Colombie Britannique: une contradiction ambulante. In O'Neill M., & Dupere, S., Pederson A. & Rootman I. (Eds.). Promotion de la Sante au Canada, Les Presses de L’Universite Laval, Quebec.]

2006. Rootman I, Kaszap M, Frankish J. La Litteratie en sante: un concept en emergence. In O'Neill M., & Dupere, S., Pederson A. & Rootman I. (Eds.). Promotion de la Sante au Canada, Les Presses de L’Universite Laval, Quebec City.

2006. Frankish J, Hills M. Health promotion in BC. In. Pederson A., O'Neill M., Rootman I. & Dupere, S. (Eds.). Health Promotion in Canada: Provincial, National and International Perspectives, Second Edition, W. B. Saunders Company, Toronto.

2001. Frankish J, Ratner P, Green L, Chomik T, Larsen C. Health impact assessment as a strategy for health promotion. Book Chapter in WHO Monograph on Effectiveness of Health Promotion, I. Rootman. Editor, (2), 405-437.

2000. Green L, Frankish J. Health promotion, health education and disease prevention. In. (Eds). C. Koop, C. Pearson & R. Schwarz, in Global Health in the 21st Century. Viking, New York.

1999. Frankish J, Lovato C, Shannon W. (1999). Models, Theories and Principles of Health Promotion in Multicultural Populations in R. Huff & M. Kline, Editors, Promoting Health in Multicultural Populations, Sage.

1999. Frankish J, Herbert C, Milsum J, Peters H. Measurements of Positive Health and Well-being. In G. Hyner et al. Handbook of Health Assessment Tools. Society of Prospective Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA.

1997. Green L. & Frankish J. Implementing nutritional science for population health: Decentralized and centralized planning for health promotion and disease prevention. Chapter 14 in Garza, C. (ed.), Beyond Nutritional Recommendations: Implementing Science for Healthier Populations, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University & National Academy of Science, 230-245.

1996. Frankish J, Green L, Ratner P, Chomik T, Olsen L, Larsen C. Health Impact Assessment as a Tool for Healthy Public Policy, WHO Series on Evaluating Health Promotion, Copenhagen.

1994. Frankish J. Crisis centres and their role in treatment: Suicide prevention versus health promotion. In Leenaars, A & Maltsberger, J. (Ed) Treatment of suicidal people. Philadelphia, PA, US: Taylor & Francis.

1994. Frankish J, Hills M. Health promotion in British Columbia. In. Pederson A., O'Neill M. & Rootman I. (Eds). Health Promotion in Canada: Provincial, National and International Perspectives, W. B. Saunders Company, Toronto.

1991. Turner R., Frankish J, Phillips N. Physical disability and health services utilization. in G. Albrecht & J. Levy, (Eds.), Advances in Medical Sociology: a Research Annual, Volume 2, ppg 269-299, JAI Press, Greenwich, CT.

Peer-Reviewed Technical & Government Reports

2007. Patterson, M. Frankish, J., McIntosh, K. & Shiell, A. Housing & Support for Adults with Severe Addictions and/or Mental Illness in British Columbia, March. Prepared for the BC Ministry of Health by The Centre for Applied Research in Mental Health and Addiction (CARMHA), March, Vancouver.

2004. Moulton G, Flores J, Frankish J, Quantz D, Kwan B. A Legacy-Health Canada's Hepatitis C Prevention, Support and Research Program (1999-2004), Health Canada, Hepatitis Program, March, Vancouver.

2003. Kwan B, Frankish J, Quantz D, Flores J. A Synthesis Paper on the Conceptualization and Measurement of Community Capacity. Report to Health Policy Research Program, Health Canada, October.

2003. Miller C, Li K, Frankish J, Braitstein P, Spittal P, Wood E, Laliberté N, Montaner J, Schechter M. Cause for alarm: high incidence of HIV and Hepatitis C co‑infection among Vancouver's addicted youth. Monograph Number 13, May, The Evidence Speaks Monograph Series, Vancouver. Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences.

2003. Frankish J, Quantz D, Stevenson S, Clemmer S. Homelessness Research in the GVRD: HRDC, Ottawa, June.

2002. Frankish J, Kwan B, Flores J. Assessing Health of Communities: Indicator Projects. Health Canada, Ottawa. June.

2001. Frankish J, Milligan D, Kwan B, Moulton G. Examination of international lessons in Hepatitis C prevention. Synthesis Paper for National Think Tank, May.

2000. Frankish J, Bishop A, Fuks Geddes C, Calisal A, Campeau Y, von Hausen E. A Review of Mental Health Education and Mental Health Promotion Resources. Canadian Mental Health Association, April.

2000. Buller-Taylor T, Moulton G, Frankish J, Chomik T. Hepatitis C Programs in Canada. Health Canada, Oct.

2000.Frankish J, Zamluk J, Drake R, Rae R. Community Participation & Liquid Waste Management: Lessons from a Participatory Planning Process. Vancouver Report to Community Action & Recycling Society, Courtenay.

1999. Frankish J, Kwan B. Community Participation in Health System Decision Making: Survey I-III of Health Authorities in BC. Reports to BC Health Research Foundation & Health Association of BC.

1999. Frankish J. Background Paper on Community Health Indicators for the Canadian Community Health Survey. Report for the Policy Development & Coordination Division, Health Canada.

1999. Frankish J, Bishop A, Mozel (Steeves) M. The role of the mental health system as a determinant of health in persons with mental illness. Report to the Mental Health Services Division, Health Canada.

1999. McGowan P, Frankish J, Green L, Dewar A. National Needs Assessment and Environmental Scan - Persons with Spinal Cord Injuries. Conducted for the Rick Hansen Institute, UBC.

1999. Frankish J, Williamson D, Paluck E, Milligan D. Linking health policy & research: Analysis of use of population health/health promotion research by regional health authorities. National Health Research Development Program, Health Canada.

1998. Green L, Frankish J. (Eds). Smoking Cessation: Program Effectiveness. BC Ministry of Health. July. (228 pg)

1998. Frankish J, Shannon W, Milligan D, Buller-Taylor T, Vossen I. Needs Assessment of Stroke Survivors, Caregivers and Service Providers in British Columbia. Conducted for the BC Heart & Stroke Foundation.

1998. Frankish J, Kwan B. Community Participation in Health System Decision Making: Survey II of Health Authorities in BC. Report to BC Health Research Foundation and Health Association of BC.

1997. Simard L, O'Neill M, Frankish J, George A, Daniel M, Doyle-Waters M. Guide de Reflexion Sur la Recherche Participative En Promotion De La Sante. Fevrier.

1997. Frankish J, George A, Daniel M, Doyle-Water M, Walker M. Participatory Research in Health Promotion in Canada: A Community Guidebook, Royal Society of Canada, Ottawa.

1997. Frankish J, Green L. Review of Literature on Health Promotion Resource Centres, Ontario Government.

1997. Frankish J, Green L, Ratner P, Olsen L, Larsen C. Health Impact Assessment as a Tool for Effective Health Policies and Program, Report to Health Canada, Ottawa.

1996. Frankish J, Green L, Ratner P, Chomik T, Olsen L, Larsen C. Health Impact Assessment as a Tool for Healthy Public Policy, WHO Series on Evaluating Health Promotion.

1996. Frankish J, Larsen C. Community Participation in Health System Decision Making: Survey I of Health Authorities in BC. Report to BC Health Research Foundation and Health Association of BC.

1996. Frankish J, Green L, Ratner P, Chomik T, Olsen L, Larsen C. Regional health objectives: application of the Precede Model. Report for the Corporation of Delta, BC.

1996. Frankish J, Milligan D, Reid C. Active Living, Mental Health and the Social Determinants of Health, A Report for the Canadian Fitness & Lifestyle Research Institute & Health Canada, Ottawa.

1995. Frankish J, Johnson J, Lovato C, Green L, Ratner P, Best A. Role of Information, Policy & Programs in Worksite Smoking Control, for the Canadian Fitness & Lifestyle Research Institute & Health Canada, Ottawa.

1995. Green L, George A, Daniel M, Frankish J, Herbert C, Bowie W, O'Neill M. Recherche Participative et Promotion de la Sante. La Societe Royale du Canada, Ottawa.

1995. Green L, George A, Daniel M, Frankish J, Herbert C, Bowie W, O'Neill M. Participatory Research in Health Promotion, Royal Society of Canada, Ottawa.

1995. Frankish J, A Lay Guide to Injury Prevention in First Nations Communities, Medical Services Branch, Health Canada

1995. Frankish J, Green L, Best A, Shannon W, Pollay R, Gorn G, Peters L, Dovell R, Basco D. Development of a Provincial Tobacco Reduction Strategy for the BC Ministry of Health.

1994. Frankish J, Green L, Macleod-Williams H, Wharf-Higgins J. Community Partnerships in BC Heart Health Project, 4 vols.

1994. Frankish J, Green L, Best A, Shannon W, Pollay R., Gorn G, Peters L, Dovell R., Basco D. Retail Warning Signs: Their Role in a Comprehensive Tobacco Reduction Strategy, BC Ministry of Health.

1994. Frankish J, Green L, Olsen L, Cadman B, Milligan D, Sun C. Adolescent Risk-Taking: A Review and Critique of the Literature, Insurance Corporation of British Columbia. (427 pages) [I co-conceived and co-wrote the contract, supervised the project and co-wrote the paper.]

1994. Frankish J, Green L, Clarke V, Olsen L, Cadman B, Milligan D, Fang Q. Injury Prevention in First Nations Communities, Medical Services Branch, Health Canada.

1993. Green L. & Frankish J. Review of the BCHRF Role in Health Promotion Research, Submitted to BCHRF Task Force.

1993. Frankish J, Green L. Review of the British Columbia Health Research Foundation Review of Proposal for Worksite Health Promotion, Canadian Mental Health Association.

1993. Frankish J. Proposal for a National Child Injury Prevention Secretariat, Canadian Institute of Child Health, Ottawa.

1993. Frankish J. Review of Clinical Guidelines for Suicide Prevention, National Institute of Health, USA.

1993. Hershler C, Frankish J. Evaluation of Meeting the Challenge: The effect of dance and music therapy on mood and quality of life in a chronically-disabled population.

1993. Frankish J. Review of ParticipACTION Health Promotion Research Series, University of Toronto.

Other Work

2004. Fielden, S, Sheckter L, Alimenti A, Forbes J, Burdge D, Chapman G, Sheps S, Cadell S, Frankish J. “A participatory, interdisciplinary study examining the needs of older children with perinatally-acquired HIV in BC, Canada”. Ejournal of the International AIDS Society, XV International AIDS Conference, Bangkok, Thailand. MedGenMed, July 11; 6(3) .

2000. Frankish J, Jeffereys R. Suicide. Entry in Encyclopedia of Public Health, McMillan Press.

2000. Frankish J, Jeffereys R. Crisis Intervention. Entry in Encyclopedia of Public Health, McMillan Press.

1999. Frankish J, Veenstra G, Gray D. Editor. Shared Responsibility for Population Health. Special Supplement to Canadian Journal of Public Health. (20 peer-reviewed papers).

1997. Strang R, Bass F, Frankish J. Physician attitudes toward BCMA health promotion policies, BCMA Journal, 39(3), 148-151.

1997. Frankish J. Optimum Health Resources - Education Materials - Rainham, D. Patient Education & Counseling 32(3): 232.

1996. Green L, Stachenko S, Frankish J. Editors. Dissemination Research in Primary Care. Special Supplement to Canadian Journal of Public Health. (23 peer-reviewed papers).

1996. Frankish J. Health authorities: who is the maestro', what is the music? Public Health Association of BC Newsletter, Sept.

1993. Green L, Frankish J, Higgins J. A comparison of pre-defined categorical health projects & community-defined "Healthy Cities" projects: a tale of two cities, Research for Healthy Cities, Maastricht, Netherlands, March. Peer-Reviewed Abstract.

1992. Doctoral Dissertation: Frankish J. Warning your marriage may be hazardous to your health: Spouse pair risk factors and cardiovascular reactivity. Dissertation Abstracts International 52(10-B) 5532.

1987. Frankish J, Tiedemann G, Manly P, Reesor, K. A statistically significant dinner at the Hotelling Vancouver. Journal of Polymorphous Perversity, Brunner-Mazel, New York.

1987. Frankish J, Tiedemann G, Manly P, Reesor K. A statistically significant dinner at the Hotelling Vancouver. In Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality, Brunner-Mazel, NY.

1987. Frankish J, Hart S, Johnson G. The interrelations among student expectations, math anxiety, and performance in an undergraduate statistics course. UBC Research Report.

1986. Masters Thesis: Frankish, J., UBC 1986; Cardiovascular responses to a psychological stressor in high vs low - reactive women.

1986. Frankish J. & Linden W. (1986). Cardiovascular reactivity, self-reported arousal and responses to psychological stress. Psychophysiology, 23, (4), 436. Peer-Reviewed Abstract.

1985. Linden W, McEachern H, Frankish J. Cardiovascular pre-stress adaptation as a function of attention deployment and expectancy, Psychophysiology, 22, (5), 600. Peer-Reviewed Abstract.

1985. Frankish J, Linden W. Psychological stress and heart disease, Heart to Heart, BC Heart Foundation Journal, November.

1985. Frankish J, Linden W. Habituation of cardiovascular responses to an experimental stressor in high versus low reactive women, Psychophysiology, 22, (5), 590. Peer-Reviewed Abstract.

1985. Crockett D, Alden L, Frankish J. Relationships between social assertiveness and self-reported psychopathology. UBC.

Work Submitted (including publisher and date of submission)

2008. Olsen, L., Bottorff, J., Raina P. & Frankish, J. An Ethnography of Low-Income Mothers' Safeguarding Efforts, Submitted to Social Science & Medicine, January.

2008. Moulton G., Frankish, J., Carson A., Labonté R., Evoy B., Casebeer A., Eyles J., Gerbrandt J., Pryce C. & Tirone, S. Critical Factors Influencing Action on the Non-Medical Determinants of Health: A Canadian Perspective of Regional Health Authorities and their Partners. Submitted to Health Promotion International.

2008. Moulton G., Labonté R., Frankish J., Casebeer A., Eyles J., Carson, A., Evoy B., Gerbrandt, J., Pryce, C. & Tirone S. Addressing the Non-Medical Determinants of Health: A Canadian Perspective of Regional Health Authorities and their Partners - Setting Priorities, Developing Strategies, and Adopting Roles, Submitted to Health Services Research.

2007. Kwan, B., Flores, J. & Frankish J. Assessing the Health of Communities: The Breadth, Challenges and Impacts of Community Indicators Projects. April 2007, Submitted to Social & Medicine.

2007. Nixon S, Granger P, Frankish J. Youth Wellness Project. Submitted to BC Medical Association Newsletter, December.

2007. Frankish J, O'Shannacery K, Gray D, Quantz D. Self-Reported Quality of Life Among Users of Homeless Facilities in Vancouver, Canada. Submitted to CJPH, December.

2007. Poureslami I, Rootman I, Vamos S, Frankish J. Development of Measures of Health Literacy for Canadian Schools. Submitted to Journal of School Health, November.

Work in Progress (including degree of completion)

Frankish J. A review of interventions to reduce homelessness. (30%)

Frankish J. et al. Regional Health Authority Action on Non-Medical Determinants of Health. (40%)

Frankish J. Ethics, Research & Vulnerable Populations. Invited Submission to Special Issue on Ethics in Evaluation. In Evaluation and Program Planning. 20%

Frankish J. Homelessness in Canada. Invited Editorial for the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

Frankish J. Invited Chapter in Macrosocial determinants of health, Springer Media Publishing in 2007, S. Galea, Ed, 20%

Frankish, J., Reid, C., Gray, D., Moulton, G., Goldner, E., Kazanjian, A. & VanWynsberghe, R. Cost & Patterns of Use of Psychotropic Medications by Homeless Shelter Clients. 66%

Frankish, J., O'Shannacery, K., Gray, D., Quantz & Klaver, K. Self-Reported Health & Quality of Life Among User of Homeless Shelter Facilities in Vancouver, Canada. Submitted to CJPH.

Frankish, J., Reid, C., Gray, D., Moulton, G., Goldner, E., Kazanjian, A. & VanWynsberghe, R. The Use of Health Services by Homeless Shelter Clients. 60%

Frankish, J., Kwan, B., Rootman, I., Vamos, S., Begoray, D., Wharf Higgins, J. McDonald, M. & Poureslami, I. Seniors’ Health Literacy, 50%.

Frankish, J., Gray, D., Quantz & Klaver, K. The Social Construction of Homeless – Whose Fault, What Solutions? Prepared for Submission to Health Promotion International. 50%

Fry C. & Frankish J., Johal, G., Moulton, G., Fry, Gray D. Challenges in ‘Counting’ the Homeless and Related Societal Attitudes, For CJPH, 99%

Gray, D., Klaver K. & Frankish, 2007. Navigating Homelessness and Health and Social Services: Experiences of Marginalized Persons, Drawn from a recent report to HRSDC.

Kwan B, Frankish J. et al. Measuring & Operationalizing Community Capacity: Synthesis Paper. (50%).

Macnaughton E, Goldner E, Frankish, J. Psychoeducation in Early Psychosis: review of the literature. 50%

Martin, E., Moulton, G. & Frankish, J. Non-Medical Determinants of Health in Quebec. 30%

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Earlier Presentations ** = Keynote

Recent Presentations

* = Keynotes

2008. Poureslami, I, Frankish, J. What’s Culture got to do with it? Health literacy in ethnocultural communities in Greater Vancouver, BC. Canadian Public Health Association Conference, Halifax, June.

2008. Poureslami, I, Frankish, J. A Pilot-test of the Effectiveness of Spanish Health Skills Literacy and Health Knowledge Videos on Health Literacy and Related Outcomes. Canadian Public Health Association Conference, Halifax, June.

2008. Nixon, S., Granger, P. & Frankish, J. & Dixon, J. The Youth Wellness Project: Engaging Medical Students and Street Involved Youth in Health Literacy Education, 2008 Canadian Conference on Medical Education, Montreal, May.

2008. Frankish, J. The Role of Horizontal Collaboration in a Whole of Government Approach to Ending Homelessness. Presentation to HRSDC Senior Policy Group, Ottawa, May.

2008. Frankish, J. The Changing Face of Homelessness – Issues & Possibilities. Alberta Public Health Association, Calgary, May.

2008. Frankish, J. (Chair) International Symposium on School Health Literacy, Vancouver, March 13-14.

2008. Frankish, J. (Chair) International Symposium on School Health Literacy, Vancouver, March 13-14.

2008. Frankish J. Health promotion and healthy aging. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, February.

2008. Fielden S.. Chapman G., Frankish, J. Action-based knowledge: A Canadian case study of developing a Community-Academic health promotion partnership to serve the needs of adolescents living with HIV. XVII International AIDS Conference, August, Mexico City.

2008. Fielden S., Sargeant, S., Chapman, G., Grant, S. Frankish J. HYUCP Project - HIV Youth/Children Umbrella Program. 17th Canadian Conference on HIV/AIDS Research, April, Montreal.

2008. Fielden S., Sargeant, S., Chapman, G., Grant, S. Frankish J. Expert Perspectives on HYUCP Project - HIV Youth/Children Umbrella Program. 17th Annual Canadian Conference on HIV/AIDS Research, April, Montreal.

2008. Fielden S., Chapman G., Grant S., Sargeant S., Frankish J. Managing stigma in the context of programs and services targeting adolescents living with HIV in resource-rich countries: expert perspectives. XVII International AIDS Conference, August, Mexico City.

2008. Fielden S, Sheckter L, Forbes A, Alimenti, A, Burdge D, Chapman G, Sheps S, Cadell S, Frankish J. Core elements for successful prevention programming with adolescents living with HIV in resource-rich countries, 17^th Annual Canadian Conference on HIV/AIDS Research, Montreal, April.

2008. Fielden S, Sheckter L, Forbes A, Alimenti, A, Burdge D, Chapman G, Sheps S, Cadell S, Frankish J. The HYCUP Project: Development of a Community-Academic health promotion partnership serving adolescents living with perinatally-acquired HIV in BC, 17^th Annual Canadian Conference on HIV/AIDS Research, Montreal, April.

2008. Fielden S, Sheckter L, Forbes A, Alimenti, A, Burdge D, Chapman G, Sheps S, Cadell S, Frankish J. Core elements for successful prevention programming with adolescents living with HIV in resource-rich countries: expert perspectives, 17th Annual Canadian Conference on HIV/AIDS Research, Montreal, April.

2007. Winstanley V, Jackson L, Frankish J, Hughes J, Langille L, Lyons R. Moving to Opportunity - Realist Review of Evaluations of Health Effects of Moving from a High Poverty to a Low Poverty Neighbourhood. International Union of Health Promotion & Education, World Conference, Vancouver, June.

2007. Quantz D, Bruce T, Frankish J, Moulton G, Scarr J. Implementation of a Population Health Strategy in Vancouver. International Union of Health Promotion & Education, World Conference, Vancouver, June.

2007. Poureslami I, Rootman I, Wharf Higgins J, Begoray D, MacDonald M, Frankish J. Development of Measures of Health Literacy for Canadian Schools. International Union of Health Promotion & Education, World Conference, Vancouver, June.

2007. Poureslami I, Rootman I, Begoray D, Frankish J, Wharf Higgins J, MacDonald M. Development of Measures of Health Literacy for Canadian Schools. Information Technology Communications in Health Conference, February, Victoria, BC.

2007. Olsen, L., Bottorff, J., Raina, P. & Frankish, J. Injury prevention in low-income families. Canadian Public Health Association, Ottawa, October.

2007. Frankish, J. Invited Professor, CIHR Institute of Population & Public Health, National Summer School, Banff, June.

2007. Frankish J. Workshop presentation on Research Ethics. Partners in Community Health Research, Vancouver, January.

2007. Frankish J. The Role of Social Determinants of Health, Presentation to the Senate of Canada, Sub-Committee on the Social Determinants of Health, Ottawa, December. *

2007. Frankish J. The Role & Capacity of Health Regions in Addressing the Non-Medical Determinants of Health. Invited Keynote Presentation, University of Calgary, April.

2007. Frankish J. Homelessness in Vancouver: Whose Fault, What Solutions? Rounds, UBC Department of Healthcare & Epidemiology, Vancouver, November.

2007. Frankish J. Complementing Interdisciplinarity – the Role of Community Research, College for Interdisciplinary Studies, Symposium on Advancing Interdisciplinarity, Vancouver, November.

2007. Frankish J. (Moderator) Social Exclusion & Social Support, Canadian Public Health Association Conference, September, Ottawa, Ontario.

2007. Frankish J, VanWynsberghe R. Community‑Based Coalitions & Mega‑Events: A Case Study of 2010 Olympics as a Healthy Communities Initiative. International Union of Health Promotion & Education, World Conference, Vancouver, June.

2007. Frankish J, The Changing Faces of Research Ethics in Work with Communities. Workshop. International Union of Health Promotion & Education, World Conference, Vancouver, June.

2007. Frankish J, Poureslami I, Lovato C. Models, Theories, and Principles of Health Promotion - Revisiting Their Use with Multicultural Populations. International Union of Health Promotion & Education, World Conference, Vancouver, June.

2007. Frankish J, Moulton, G, Gray D. The Portrayal of Homelessness in Canadian Media. International Union of Health Promotion & Education, World Conference, Vancouver, June.

2007. Frankish J, Moulton G, Quantz D, Labonte R, Carson A, Eyles J, Casebeer A, Evoy B. Addressing Non‑Medical Determinants of Health- A Survey of Canada s Health Regions. International Union of Health Promotion & Education, World Conference, Vancouver, June.

2007. Frankish J, Moulton G, Health Promotion in Primary Care ‑ Exploring the Foundations. International Union of Health Promotion & Education, World Conference, Vancouver, June.

2007. Frankish J, Chair, International Panel on Measuring Health Literacy in Health Promotion. International Union of Health Promotion & Education, World Conference, Vancouver, June. *

2007. Frankish J, Best A, Pedersen F, Bitz J. Partners in Community Health Research ‑ The Experiences of a Canadian Research‑Training Program. International Union of Health Promotion & Education, World Conference, Vancouver, June.

2007. Frankish J, Best A, Bitz J, & Pedersen F. Partners in Community Health Research ‑ A Framework for Research Training in Communities. International Union of Health Promotion & Education, World Conference, Vancouver, June.

2007. Frankish J. (Moderator) Social Exclusion & Social Support, Canadian Public Health Association Conference, September, Ottawa, Ontario.

2007. Frankish J. The Role of Social Determinants of Health, Presentation to the Senate of Canada, Sub-Committee on the Social Determinants of Health, Ottawa, December. *

2007. Frankish J. Homelessness in Vancouver: Whose Fault, What Solutions? Rounds, UBC Department of Healthcare & Epidemiology, Vancouver, November.

2007. Frankish J. Complementing Interdisciplinarity – the Role of Community Research, College for Interdisciplinary Studies, Symposium on Advancing Interdisciplinarity, Vancouver, November.

2007. Olsen, L., Bottorff, J., Raina, P. & Frankish, J. Injury prevention in low-income families. Canadian Public Health Association, Ottawa, October.

2007. Frankish J. The Role & Capacity of Health Regions in Addressing the Non-Medical Determinants of Health. Invited Keynote Presentation, University of Calgary, April.

2007. Frankish, J. Invited Professor, CIHR Institute of Population & Public Health, National Summer School, Banff, June.

2007. Frankish J. Health promotion and healthy aging. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, January.

2007. Poureslami I, Rootman I, Wharf Higgins J, Begoray D, MacDonald M, Frankish J. Development of Measures of Health Literacy for Canadian Schools. International Union of Health Promotion & Education, World Conference, Vancouver, June.

2007. Frankish J. Workshop presentation on Research Ethics. Partners in Community Health Research, Vancouver, January.

2007. Frankish J, Chair, International Panel on Measuring Health Literacy in Health Promotion. International Union of Health Promotion & Education, World Conference, Vancouver, June. *

2007. Frankish J, The Changing Faces of Research Ethics in Work with Communities. Workshop. International Union of Health Promotion & Education, World Conference, Vancouver, June.

2007. Frankish J, Moulton G, Health Promotion in Primary Care ‑ Exploring the Foundations. International Union of Health Promotion & Education, World Conference, Vancouver, June.

2007. Frankish J, Moulton G, Quantz D, Labonte R, Carson A, Eyles J, Casebeer A, Evoy B. Addressing Non‑Medical Determinants of Health- Survey of Canada s Health Regions. International Union of Health Promotion & Education, World Conference, Vancouver, June.

2007. Frankish J, Moulton, G, Gray D. The Portrayal of Homelessness in Canadian Media. International Union of Health Promotion & Education, World Conference, Vancouver, June.

2007. Frankish J, Poureslami I, Lovato C. Models, Theories, and Principles of Health Promotion - Revisiting Their Use With Multicultural Populations. International Union of Health Promotion & Education, World Conference, Vancouver, June.

2007. Frankish J, Best A, Pedersen F, Bitz J. Partners in Community Health Research ‑ The Experiences of a Canadian Research‑Training Program. International Union of Health Promotion & Education, World Conference, Vancouver, June.

2007. Frankish J, Best A, Bitz J, & Pedersen F. Partners in Community Health Research ‑ A Framework for Research Training in Communities. International Union of Health Promotion & Education, World Conference, Vancouver, June.

2007. Frankish J , VanWynsberghe R. Community‑Based Coalitions & Mega‑Events: A Case Study of the 2010 Olympics as a Healthy Communities Initiative. International Union of Health Promotion & Education, World Conference, Vancouver, June.

2007. Quantz D, Bruce T, Frankish J, Moulton G, Scarr J. International Union of Health Promotion & Education, World Conference, Vancouver, June. Implementation of a Population Health Strategy in Vancouver.

2007. Winstanley V, Jackson L, Frankish J, Hughes J, Langille L, Lyons R. Moving to Opportunity - Realist Review of Evaluations of Health Effects of Moving from a High Poverty to a Low Poverty Neighbourhood. International Union of Health Promotion & Education, World Conference, Vancouver, June.

2007. Poureslami I, Rootman I, Begoray D, Frankish J, Wharf Higgins J, MacDonald M. Development of Measures of Health Literacy for Canadian Schools. Information Technology Communications in Health Conference, February, Victoria, BC.

2006. Frankish, J. Ethics in Work with Vulnerable Populations. Western Regional Training Centre, Vancouver, November.*

2006. Frankish, J. Community Capacity & Population Health Promotion, Vancouver Coastal Health, November, Richmond.

2006. Frankish, J. Homelessness – A Case Example of the Role of Health Regions in Addressing Non-Medical Determinants of Health, Presentation to Vancouver Coastal Health, North Shore, December.

2006. Frankish J, Moulton G, Nilson R, Eyles J, Carson A, Tirone S, Quantz D, Evoy B, Labonte R, Casebeer A, Pryce, C. Addressing Nonmedical Determinants of Health-Survey of Canada's Health Regions. BCPHA November Vancouver. *

2006. Poureslami, I, Rootman I, Frankish J, Kwan B, Begoray D, Wharf Higgins J, MacDonald M. Development of Measures of Health Literacy for Canadian Schools, BC Public Health Association Conference, November Vancouver.

2006. Frankish J, Gray D, Moulton G. Homelessness & Health. BC Public Health Association, Nov Vancouver.*

2006. Frankish, J. (2006). Youth, homelessness and health in Canada. National Youth Homelessness Conference, St. John’s Newfoundland, September. *

2006. Kwan B, Rootman I, Frankish J, Begoray D, Kelly K, Zumbo B, Kazanjian A, Mullet J, Hayes M. Health literacy - what does it mean? How can it be measured? Canadian Public Health Association 97^th Annual Conference, May 28-31, Vancouver.

2006. Rootman I, Begoray D, Frankish J, Poureslami I. Development of Measures of Health Literacy for Canadian Schools. CPHA 97th Annual Conference, Vancouver, May.

2006. Frankish J, Rootman I, Kwan B, Begoray D, Hayes M, Kazanjian A, Kelly K, Mullet J, Zumbo B. Measuring Health Literacy in Seniors (Workshop Presentation) CPHA 97th Annual Conference, Vancouver, May.

2006. Frankish J. Homelessness - a public health epidemic. Rounds Presentation, Health Care & Epidemiology, Vancouver, Feb.

2006. Carson A., Frankish J, Moulton G. How well do Canada’s health authorities address non-medical health determinants? Presentation to Nordic Health Promotion Research Conference, Denmark, June.

2006. Fuks Geddes C, Schonert-Reichl K, Garland J, Frankish J. Adolescents' Self-Recognition of Depression-Relations to Screened Depression, Gender, and Grade. Society for Research on Adolescence, March 2006, San Francisco.

2006. Frankish J. Homelessness & health. Community Health Services Kwantlen College, Surrey, February.

2006. Frankish J. Measurement and evaluation of community development in health. Vancouver Coastal Health Authority Conference on Health Promotion, Prevention, and Population Health, Richmond, BC, February. *

2006. Frankish J. Performance and outcome measurements in population health. Vancouver Coastal Health Authority Conference on Health Promotion, Prevention, and Population Health, Richmond, BC, February.

2005. Frankish J. Empowerment evaluation as a method for community partnership research. National Summer School on Literacy & Health Research, Vancouver, July. *

2005. Frankish J. Developing proposals for funding of literacy and health research. National Summer School on Literacy & Health Research, Vancouver, July.

2005. Frankish J. Seniors & health literacy. Provincial (B.C.) Workshop on Literacy & Health Research & Practice. National Summer School on Literacy & Health Research, Vancouver, July.

2005. Frankish J. Health promotion & population health in Canada. Atlantic Network for Prevention Research, Halifax, October.

2005. Frankish J. Measurement of community health and indicators. Atlantic Network for Prevention Research, Halifax, Oct. *

2005. Frankish J. Public health nursing & population health. Keynote Vancouver Coastal Health, North Vancouver, June.

2005. Frankish J. Presentation to UBC Medical Residents on for nominal group, delphi processes & case studies, Jan.

2005. Frankish J. Presentation to UBC Bridge & SOEH on Knowledge Transfer in Health Research, Jan.

2005. Frankish J. Gray D. & Quantz D. Thoughts on homelessness. Canadian Conference on Homelessness, York U, May. *

2005. Frankish J. HIV, population health and the determinants of health, Presentation to HIV Course, Vancouver.

2005. Frankish J. Gray D, Quantz D. Knowledge translation for Diverse Populations. Canadian Conference on Homelessness, York University, May.

2005. Frankish J. Ethical issues in community-based research. National Council on Ethics in Human Research, March, Ottawa.

2004. Miller C, Spittal P, Li K, Frankish J, Schechter M, Wood E. Binge Drug Users Independently Predicts HIV Seroconversion Among Injection Drug Users, XV International AIDS Conference, Bangkok Thailand.

2004. Miller C, Spittal P, Frankish J, Li K, Schechter M, Wood E. Binge Drug Use Independently Predicts HIV Seroconversion in Injection Drug Users. 15th International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harm, Melbourne, April.

2004. Miller C, Spittal P, Frankish J, Li K, Schechter M, Wood E. Sex Differences in Early Initiation into IV Drug Use 15th International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harm, Melbourne, Australia, April.

2004. Miller C, Spittal P, Frankish J, Li K, Schechter M, Wood E. Binge Drug Use Independently Predicts HIV Seroconversion in Injection Drug Users. 13th Annual Canadian Conference on HIV/AIDS Research, Montreal, Quebec, May.

2004. Miller C, Spittal P, Frankish J, Li K, Schechter M, Wood E. (2004). Factors Associated with Early Initiation into IV Drug Use 13th Annual Canadian Conference on HIV/AIDS Research, Montreal, Quebec, May.

2004. Miller C, Spittal P, Li K, Frankish J, Schechter M, Wood E. Factors Associated with Early Initiation into Injection Drug Use Among Young Injection Drug Users, XV International AIDS Conference, Bangkok Thailand.

2004. Frankish J. Strategies for building a homelessness research agenda. Presentation to Human Resources Development Canada and the Regional Homelessness Steering Committee, December, Vancouver.

2004. Frankish J, Cole C, Best A, Bitz J, Kralj S. Using Clusters for Interprofessional Training in Community Health Research", Altogether Better Health Conference: Education and Collaborative Practice, May, Vancouver.

2004. Frankish J, Rootman I, Kwan B, Kazanjian A, Kelly K, Macnaughton E, Poureslami, I, Vukovic R, Zumbo B, Begoray D, Hayes M., Mullett J., Pre-Conference Workshop on Health Literacy, CPHA, Oct, Ottawa

2004. Quantz D, Frankish J, VanWynsberghe R, Cotie J, Flores J. Building Partnerships: Creation of a BC Homelessness & Health Research Network. Banff, AB10th Qualitative Health Research Conference April.

2004. Olsen L, Bottorff J, Raina P, Frankish. J. Understanding mothers' efforts to safeguard children in the home environment: an institutional ethnography. 7th World Conference on Injury Prevention, Austria.

2004.Gorman E, Melvin E, Fielden S, Sheckter L, Frankish J. Care, Treatment and Trends when Working with HIV/AIDS Affected Children, Youth and Families. HIV in Children Conference, Toronto, March.

2004. Fielden S, Frankish J. Reflections on Community-Based Participatory Strategies in Health Research Involving HIV Positive Children, Interdisciplinary Research Symposium, Vancouver February.

2004. Frankish J. Health communications and decision-making in research, National CIHR Summer School, Whistler, June.

2004. Frankish J, Rootman I, Kwan B. Roundtable on Measuring Health Literacy at Staying the Course, CPHA, October, Ottawa.

2004. Frankish J, Best A, Cole C, Bitz J. Cluster Based Learning in Community Health Research Training. All-Together Better Health II International Conference. Vancouver, BC. *

2004. Fielden S, Sheckter L, Brown T, Richardson J, Frankish, J. Designing research for and with HIV-affected communities. HIV in Children Conference, Toronto, March.

2004. Levy-Milne R., Chapman G, Milligan D, Ristovski-Slijepcevic S, Crocker B, Frankish J, Lovato C. Using food to build community: Benefits of "Cooking Fun for Families" programs. XIV Int’l Congress of Dietetics: May Chicago. 27-29.

2004. Fuks Geddes