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
