Dr. Susan Cox


Associate Professor

School of Population and Public Health, W. Maurice Young Centre and Applied Ethics

Faculty of Medicine

Susan Cox is an Associate Professor in SPPH and Director of the PhD & MSc Programs. She is an interdisciplinary health researcher with expertise in medical sociology and qualitative methodology. Her current research focuses on the relationship between the arts and health, especially the use of arts-based methods in health research, and the experiences of human subjects participating in health research, including the implications for an evidence-based and participant-centred approach to ethical review.

First Nations land acknowledegement

The UBC Point Grey campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm.


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