James Frankish PhD, MA, BA

Adjunct Professor

University of British Columbia

Dr. Jim Frankish is Senior Scholar of the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research. His recent work includes studies work on measuring community capacity and healthy communities, and development of criteria for health promotion in primary care. His current projects are social-science grants on poverty and nutrition, literacy and health, and the causes/solutions to homelessness. He also has five health grants on health promotion in primary care, the BC Homelessness & Health Research Network, community partnership research, measurement of health literacy, and health literacy in schools. He is the past Chair of the UBC Behavioural Research Ethics Board and has 16 current graduate students and post-docs. He teaches an innovative, undergraduate course on the meaning, measurement and determinants of health, is designing a 'Health 101' course for Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, and is the principal investigator on a 6-year, CIHR/MSFHR research-training program focussed on community health promotion.