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The Qualitative Institute
A Skills Development Program
September 16, 17, 18 & 19, 2026
The Qualitative Institute (TQI) is a professional development program designed to enhance skills that are useful in qualitative and mixed methods research. TQI is useful to researchers, clinicians, and scholars working in public health, healthcare, social work, government, non-profit organizations, and policy who are new to or would like to hone and expand their qualitative research skills.
TQI is offered in-person on the campus of Thomas Jefferson University and consists of interactive learning with several workshop sessions that allow learners to practice new skills as they acquire them. It is taught by experts from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Drexel University, Temple University, University of Pennsylvania and Thomas Jefferson University.
Registration to open soon!
New Coding Session Offered!
The September 19th session is an optional half-day program that will focus on qualitative data coding using hands-on software learning. You will have the option to register separately for this session or register for all four days.
Stay tuned for details.
Questions? Contact QualitativeInstitute@jefferson.edu
Learning Agenda
- Philosophical Foundations of Qualitative Inquiry
- Conventional & Alternative Data Collection Approaches
- PhotoVoice
- Photo Elicitation
- Nominal Group Technique
- Tag-a-long Interviews
- Freelisting
- Delphi Approach
- Concept Mapping
- Other elicitation techniques
- Ethnography & Observation
- Social Media: A Data Gold Mine
- Arts Informed Research
- Developing Interview & Focus Group Guides
- Community Engaged & Participatory Research
- Mixed Methods Research
- Constructivist Big Qualitative Analysis
- Interview & Focus Group Workshops
- Coding & Analysis
- Research Dissemination
- Giving Back: Communicating Your Findings to the Community
- Qualitative Research and AI
Meet The Qualitative Institute Director
Dr. Rosemary (Rosie) Frasso is program director for the Master of Public Health Program and is the Victor Heiser MD, Professor of Population Health at JCPH. She is also Director of Mixed Methods Research, at the Asano-Gonnella Center for Research in Medical Education and Health Care. Her research focuses on the integration of qualitative and quantitative methods in projects designed to improve population health, healthcare quality, access to health services for vulnerable populations and evaluation of educational endeavors in medicine, social work, nursing, allied health, and public health settings. Her expertise in qualitative methods focuses on traditional and alternative data sources and data collection approaches, including, but not limited to, arts informed research, walking interviews, photo-elicitation interviews, freelisting and consensus-deriving group approaches.
Dr. Frasso earned a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania's School of Social Policy & Practice, as well as two master's degrees from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Fall 2025 Presenters
| Amy Castro, PhD, MPH | Amy Leader, DrPH, MPH |
| Justin Clapp, PhD, MPH | Patrick Moeller, MPH |
| Amy Cunningham, PhD, MPH | Megan Reed, PhD, MPH |
| Candice Dias, PhD | Samuel Rosenblatt, MD, MSeD |
| Melissa Dichter, PhD, MSW | Lara Varpio, PhD |
| Katie DiSantis, PhD, MPH | Kofoworola Williams, PhD, MPH |
| Tamar Klaiman, PhD, MPH |
Fall 2025 Workshop Facilitators
| Nina Diamond, MPH | Julianna Lenior, MPH |
| Alexzandra Gentsch, MSW | Karla Martin Gonzalez, MPP |
| Katie Kellom, BA | Harriet Okatch, PhD, MPH |
2025 Rates
$900 General Rate
$700 Group Rate (3 or more individuals from the same organization)
$500 Learner Rate
Sponsored & Hosted by JCPH & the Asano-Gonnella Center for Research in Medical Education & Health Care, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University
Questions? Contact QualitativeInstitute@Jefferson.edu