Dr. Jim Frankish is Professor and Director of the new Centre for Population Health Promotion Research at UBC.

His current projects are the 2010 games & healthy communities, service utilization by the homeless with mental illness, poverty and nutrition education, health literacy and social enterprise in street youth, and health regions and non-medical determinants of health.

Other recent studies focused on measuring community capacity, indicators of healthy communities, and health promotion in primary care. he leads a CIHR/MSFHR research-training program focused on community partnership research. he has done research with colleagues from 34 disciplines & departments.