Full course description
September 16-18, 2026
In-Person Workshops
Overview:
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 Thomas Jefferson University, University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, Drexel University, and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
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
- Interview & Focus Group Workshops
- Coding & Analysis
- Research Dissemination
- Giving Back: Communicating Your Findings to the Community
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.
Pricing:
Rates for TQI
September 16, 17, 18, 2026
$900 General Rate
Special rates
Email Qualitative Institute@jefferson.edu for non-profit organization rates and registration codes for:
$700 Group Rate (3 or more individuals from the same organization)
$500 Learner Rate
Sponsored & Hosted by the College of Population Health & the Asano-Gonnella Center for Research in Medical Education & Health Care, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University
For questions:
Please email QualitativeInstitute@jefferson.edu