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The Qualitative Institute

September 17 - 19, 2025

Thomas Jefferson University, Center City Campus

A Skills Development Program

The Qualitative Institute (TQI) is a 3-day 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.  

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. 

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   

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

To learn about discounts for student learners and those who work for community organizations, please contact QualitativeInstitute@jefferson.edu.


Sponsored & Hosted by JCPH & the Asano-Gonnella Center for Research in Medical Education & Health Care, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University