Previous Placements
Previous Placements
The practicum gives students the opportunity to meet and work with public health practitioners.
The MPH program has great contacts with organizations that have previously, or are willing to, host UBC students for their practicums. A list of organizations who have hosted students in previous years can be found below.
Practica can take place around Canada, as well as overseas, with some past students having travelled to South Africa, the South Pacific and South America, while areas of focus for past practica have included hygiene promotion, HIV outcomes, public health surveillance in given provinces, health survey translation and cultural adaptation, and engagement with Hepatitis C care.
Previous Hosts
Arthritis Research Centre of Canada
BC Ambulance Service (BC Emergency Health Services)
BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS
BC Ministry of Health – Mental Health and Substance Use Branch
British Columbia Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC)
British Columbia Ministry of Agriculture and Lands (BCMAL)
Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation
Centre for Advancing Health Outcomes
Charite University Medical Centre, Campus Charite Mitte, Berlin, Germany
City of Vancouver, Department of Engineering, Active Transportation Branch
City of Windhoek, Division of Health Services, Winhoek, Namibia
Collaborating Centre for Prison Health and Education
Department of Nutrition, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Nutrition Research Institute
Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, UBC Hospital
First Nations Inuit Health & First Nations Health Society
Gender and Sexual Health Initiative, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS
Health Initiative for Men (HIM)
Human Early Learning Partnership, International Research and Initiatives Program
Michael Smith Foundation for Heath Research
Momentum Health Study, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS
National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health (NCCEH)
Oak Tree Clinic, BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre, Vancouver
Perinatal HIV Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Public Health Agency Canada (PHAC)
Sheway Program, Vancouver Coastal Health
SMART Fund, Vancouver Coastal Health
UBC Global Health Research Program
United National Children’s Fund (UNICEF), New York Headquarters
United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, Iran
United Way of the Lower Mainland
Urban Health Research Initiative (UHRI), BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS
Island Health – Residency Rural Rotation
Vancouver Native Health Society Medical Clinic
Vancouver Coastal Health Public Health Surveillance Unit
Windsor-Essex County Health Unit
BC Women’s Hospital, Reproductive Mental Health
World Health Organization (WHO) HQ – Geneva