Population Health Intervention Research Centre

Our mission is to provide the evidence that policy makers need to put more resources into prevention.

The Centre is one of seven research centres established in 2004 by the CIHR’s Institute of Population and Public Health under its Centres for Research Development program. It provides a home for our applied and methodological research and also our research training activities. The Centre is also the Calgary hub of the CIHR funded International Collaboration on Complex Interventions.

Research in the Centre is aimed primarily at improving the effectiveness of interventions designed to improve population health. We are exploring issues associated with community-based interventions under four themes: theory, methods, ethics, and economics.

News & Events

Melanie Rock's paper comparing perceptions of Kraft Dinner in food-secure and food-insecure Canadian households was selected as a highlight in Research with Impact, the CIHR's annual report for 2008/9. This project would not have been possible without support from Dr Louise Potvin, who supervised Dr Rock's CHSRF/CIHR postdoctoral fellowship. Dr Rock, a CIHR New Investigator and AHFMR Population Health Investigator, co-authored this paper with Krista Rondeau, MPH, RD and with Dr Lynn McIntyre, who holds a CIHR Chair in Gender and Health.

The screenshot from the report is posted at www.melanierock.net

Cherie Nicholson, MSc student in Community Health Sciences, is the successful recipient of a Population and Public Health Studentship in Population Health Intervention Research awarded by this Centre.

Congratulations to post-doc, Stephanie Dixon, for her successful PhD defense: Analysis of multivariate failure-time data in the presence of competing risks

We are pleased to announce that Gavin McCormack is the recipient of the Bisby CIHR Fellowship award. He was a top candidate in the October 2008 CIHR Fellowship competition.

Click here for a pdf version of the Canadian Population Health Initiative recently released report "Mentally Healthy Communities: A Collection of Papers", which includes a chapter written by Penny Hawe.

The Pan American Health Organization Guide to Economic Evaluation in Health Promotion, co-authored by Alan Shiell, is available online.

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