Brenda Poon
Academic Rank(s)
Assistant Professor (Partner) PhD
Phone
604–822–3560
brenda.poon@ubc.ca
Location
2206 East Mall Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3
Dr. Brenda Poon is a faculty member at the Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP) in UBC’s School of Population & Public Health (SPPH) and also Research Division Lead at the Wavefront Centre for Communication Accessibility.
She has applied mixed methods and participatory action research designs in community- based settings to study collective community action and systems to address health inequities and also differential service use for underserved populations from diverse ethnic, socioeconomic, and special needs backgrounds. She has led several multi-year research and evaluation investigations of community-based and population-level interventions involving extensive collaboration with the provincial government, regional health authorities, and community agencies.
Research Division Lead, Wavefront Centre for Communication Accessibility
Research areas: Inequities in service access and use; coordinated and integrated systems of services and support; social determinants of health; developmental trajectories of individuals with special health and developmental needs
Her research lab, the Community Research & Engagement Lab (CoRE-LAB), works closely with collaborators through participatory community-based knowledge-to-action research on community-level determinants of health and inequities and barriers to accessing services and supports. Her research lab has partnered extensively with the provincial government, regional health authorities, and diverse community and social service agencies to support provincial and community-based planning, implementation, and evaluation initiatives.