Practicum Case Studies

Christine Soon, BPHE/BSc, MPH (Candidate)

Practicum Site: Perinatal HIV Research Unit (PHRU), research division of the University of Witwatersrand, Soweto, South Africa. I traveled to Soweto, South Africa in May 2009 where I conducted research at the Kganya Motsha Adolescent Centre in Kliptown, Soweto. Soweto is a collection of townships southwest of Johannesburg with a population of approximately 3 million people.

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Giulia Muraca, B.Sc. (Hons.), M.P.H. (Candidate)

Formative Research into Water, Sanitation & Hygiene Practices in Oshitenda (July, 2009). I travelled to Oshitenda, an informal settlement on the outskirts of Windhoek, the capital of Namibia to obtain baseline information on existing water and sanitation-related hygiene practices in their cultural, social, economic, and physical context. This research was carried out in order to develop a successful hygiene promotion intervention for...

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Seminar: Improving the public health impact of Internet-delivered interventions..

Dr. Rik Crutzen presents on Friday, May 25th from 1-3pm at UBC.  Click here for more information. RSVP to Tyler Thompson at tthompson@cheos.ubc.ca.

MPH alumna Miranda Kelly to speak at the Institute for Aboriginal Health.

On Tuesday, June 5 Miranda presents work undertaken by the interim First Nations Health Authority.  Click here for more details.

The Data Effect, June 5, 2012.

Conference will further the discussion on broader access to data in BC for health research. Click here for more details.

CPHA Annual Conference held June 11-14th, 2012 in Edmonton

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