Brenda Poon


Assistant Professor / Research Division Lead

Population & Public Health / Wavefront Centre for Communication Accessibility

Faculty of Medicine

Research Themes:  Language, Sustainability and Transnationalism

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 interests: 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

First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that UBC’s campuses are situated within the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.


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