Population Health and Aging Rural Research Centre
PHARR Research Team
Faculty Researchers:
School of Nursing, Juanita-Dawne Bacsu
School of Nursing, Melba D’Souza
Faculty of Arts, Claudia Gonzalez
Faculty of Education & Social Work, Wendy Hulko
School of Nursing, Anila Virani
Faculty of Science, Mark Rakobowchuk
Our Mission
• To promote community-driven research informed by rural older adults, including people with dementia and care partners.
• To conduct population health research to improve rural aging at the individual, community, policy, and societal levels.
Our Vision
• To enhance the health equity (unfair, avoidable, and unjust differences in health outcomes) and aging in place for rural older adults.
Land acknowledgement
Thompson Rivers University campuses are on the traditional lands of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc (Kamloops campus) and the T’exelc (Williams Lake campus) within Secwépemc’ulucw, the traditional and unceded territory of the Secwépemc. Our region also extends into the territories of the St’át’imc, Nlaka’pamux, Nuxalk, Tŝilhqot’in and Dakelh peoples.