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UBC community partnerships aim to benefit local health projects

September 15, 2014

What: Discussion on ways to improve your community health project
Who: Interior Health’s Betty Brown, UBC  Professors Joan Bottorff and Keith Culver
When: Wednesday, September 17, noon to 1 p.m.
Where: ARTS 112, Arts Building, UBC’s Okanagan campus, Kelowna

Do you wonder how to engage with UBC Okanagan to help your community health project be successful?

UBC students and faculty members can help identify and evaluate solutions for community partners to implement, measure, and learn about cultural change and how to reduce interventions for chronic disease in a discussion session at UBC this Wednesday.

Community groups are invited to join this knowledge-sharing event that includes a panel discussion with Betty Brown, Interior Health’s Community Health Facilitator; Joan Bottorff, director of UBC Okanagan’s Institute for Healthy Living and Chronic Disease Prevention; and Keith Culver, director of the Okanagan Sustainability Institute at UBC.

This Community and University Partnerships for Health Series event is free and open to the public. It takes place Wednesday, September 17, from noon to 1 p.m. in ARTS 112, Arts Building, UBC’s Okanagan campus. Pay parking is available on campus.

To attend in person, via webinar, or teleconference please register at http://partnerubc.eventbrite.ca

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