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Meet the Mentors

Please visit our new 'Meet the Mentors' section of the website, featuring videos of our mentors filmed at our 2011 Summer Institute!


University of Toronto offering graduate-level course:
“Tobacco and Health: From Cells to Society”

“Tobacco and Health: From Cells to Society” has been offered as an elective at the University of Toronto since 2003. This 13-week course provides students with a comprehensive overview of tobacco and tobacco-related issues from a public health perspective. The course focuses on patterns, determinants and health effects of tobacco use, the causes, impacts and interventions regarding nicotine addiction, and the prevention of tobacco use. There are no prerequisites.





PHIRNET Webinar

Objectives of the PHIRNET Webinars:

To offer an online academic environment through a structuredprogram of learning through knowledge sharing / exchange / translation in PHIR to:

  1. Strengthen existing training capacity in PHIR through the development and sharing of resources and expertise in the four PHIRNET theme areas: Methods, Economic evaluation, Ethics and research governance, and Interventions addressing social health inequities

  2. Create a cohesive identity among PHIR researchers and trainees, linking the network with high-profile training events and links with international collaborators;

  3. Enable PHIR learning and resources in both official languages –as much as possible, and disseminate these resources;

  4. Propose a proactive and stimulating interaction of knowledge/learning in PHIR with/for the trainees and experts;

  5. Provide an update on the development of competencies in PHIR, including: 

    • Systematic and critical enquiry (research design and methods)

    • Situational analysis (designing research to local context and needs)

    • Project management (budgeting, task coordination, etc)

    • Professional practice (integrity, ethics, standards of behaviour) 

    • Reflective practice (what makes research an intellectual exercise and not simply a technical one)

    • Interpersonal skills (working in teams, motivations others).

PHIRNET Webinar Guides:

If you are interested in joining the webinars please contact Rod Knight, PHIRNET UBC Executive Secretariat Coordinator (phirnet.info@ubc.ca)

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