Dr. Jim Frankish is the director for the Centre for Population Health Promotion Research. He is also a professor for CFIS & School of Population & Public Health. Additionally, Dr. Frankish is a member of the PHIRNET research-training program, board member for Lookout Homeless Society and member of the National Collaborating Centre on Determinants of Health. His research interests include: Olympics & inner city communities, service use by homeless with mental illness, poverty & nutrition and health literacy in street youth.

Publications

• Building capacity for community-based participatory research for health disparities in Canada: The case of “Partnerships in Community Health Research”

  • 2011 Health Promotion Practice
  • Masuda J. , Creighton G. , Nixon S. , Frankish J.

• Urban-rural migration and health and quality of life in homeless people

  • 2011
  • Gray D. , Chau S. , Heurta T. , Frankish J.

• Developing and evaluating a relevant and feasible instrument for measuring health literacy of Canadian high school students

  • 2010 Health Promotion International
  • Wu A. , Begoray D. , MacDonald M. , Wharf Higgins J. , Frankish J. , Kwan B.