This course offers Health Studies students a basic understanding of the principles of qualitative health research - which are critical to contextualizing the health practices, experiences, and outcomes amongst diverse populations. Qualitative research methods will examine research design, data collection, and interpretation in using various methodological approaches such as interviews, focus groups, observation, and case studies. The course highlights prevention research related to key populations at risk of HIV infection and transmission. The course focuses on challenges and issues, with the goal of stimulating critical thinking and engagement with topics. Some material will be presented by Guest Lecturers who are experts in the areas, allowing students to learn from and interact with these experts and to hear about their current research as well as their career paths. It is expected that at the end of this course students will have an advanced appreciation of the history and future and underlying values and ethics of effective HIV prevention research, including future possibilities and challenges. One ancillary aim is to encourage students to compare and contrast HIV Prevention with prevention research in adjacent areas (e.g., HCV, HPV). Attention will be focused on examples of disparities that perpetuate and exacerbate current epidemiological challenges for underrepresented populations in Canada and globally.
This course offers Health Studies students a basic understanding of the principles of qualitative health research - which are critical to contextualizing the health practices, experiences, and outcomes amongst diverse populations. Qualitative research methods will examine research design, data collection, and interpretation in using various methodological approaches such as interviews, focus groups, observation, and case studies. The course highlights prevention research related to key populations at risk of HIV infection and transmission. The course focuses on challenges and issues, with the goal of stimulating critical thinking and engagement with topics. Some material will be presented by Guest Lecturers who are experts in the areas, allowing students to learn from and interact with these experts and to hear about their current research as well as their career paths. It is expected that at the end of this course students will have an advanced appreciation of the history and future and underlying values and ethics of effective HIV prevention research, including future possibilities and challenges. One ancillary aim is to encourage students to compare and contrast HIV Prevention with prevention research in adjacent areas (e.g., HCV, HPV). Attention will be focused on examples of disparities that perpetuate and exacerbate current epidemiological challenges for underrepresented populations in Canada and globally.
