The Health Research & Methods Training Facility (HeRMeT) at Simon Fraser University’s Harbour Centre campus conducts and supports innovative health research. Through its central laboratory and infrastructure for field research, HeRMeT facilitates training and the on-going collaboration of researcher and trainees from a cross-section of disciplines. This collaboration, in turn, enables all partners to develop, apply, and evaluate novel processes and frameworks for health outcomes research and health care delivery analysis.

Central to HeRMeT’s mandate is the integration of community based research with health promotion in real-world settings. In particular, we support the investigation of applied research methodologies and their use in addressing public health issues. Our programs of research, including our new online digital archive (CHODARR), cross sectors and disciplines in health care and health education while increasing the ability of consumers to participate in and utilize the results of health research. HeRMeT has state-of-the-art equipment to permit collaboration among researchers and trainees, and has a large capacity for collection, storage, and analysis of data.