PCHR Mission Statement
PCHR offers training opportunities in transdisciplinary, community-based health research. Our mission is to develop creative ways for academic and community learners to effectively integrate research with policy and practice. Our priorities include:
- improving health systems, by developing
- innovative management strategies
- powerful preventive-care interventions
- enhanced health-care services
- enabling evidence-based decisions
- promoting a greater focus on determinants of health and reducing health disparities
- creating healthy workplaces
PCHR's most unique and innovative feature is the creation of community-based learning environments. This approach means shared learning across diverse university and community target groups through problem-based teamwork on actual community research priorities.
The three target learner groups are graduate students from multiple disciplines and programs, transdisciplinary postdoctoral fellows, and community program managers/learners/policy makers.
PCHR is designed to increase collaboration between community health workers/professionals and university researchers. Our goal is to foster interdisciplinary community health research and evidence-based health policies and practices.
PCHR is aimed at:
* fostering research targeted at urgent local community health needs;
* strengthening the linkage between research and policy/practice; and
* promoting interdisciplinary health research.
To view a complete copy of the 2007 PCHR Annual Report submitted to CIHR December 1, 2007, please click here. To view Appendix I, please click here. To view Appendix II, please click here. To view Appendix III, please click here. To view Appendix IV, please click here.
