Research Interests: economic evaluation (development and empirical applications); modeling of consumers’ and providers’ behaviours (e.g., The physician-patient encounter); health policy analysis.

Research Interests: economic evaluation (development and empirical applications); modeling of consumers’ and providers’ behaviours (e.g., The physician-patient encounter); health policy analysis.

Research Interests: epidemiology, secondary and tertiary prevention of child maltreatment; intimate partner violence; mental disorders among children and adolescents.

Research Interests: epidemiology, secondary and tertiary prevention of child maltreatment; intimate partner violence; mental disorders among children and adolescents.

Boris Kralj, PhD, is an experienced economist and professor specializing in health economics and labor economics. With a diverse academic background and extensive professional experience, Dr. Kralj has made contributions to this field through his research, teaching, and consulting work. Dr. Kralj has held various academic positions, including Adjunct Assistant Professor and Lecturer at McMaster University’s Department of Economics. He has taught a range of courses on microeconomics, macroeconomics, labor economics, industrial organization, and health economics at McMaster University, the University of Toronto, and Ryerson University.
He has made contributions to academic literature, publishing research articles in respected journals such as Health Economics, the Canadian Medical Association Journal, Canadian Public Policy, and Health Policy. His publications cover a wide range of topics, including physician workforce planning, nurse employment patterns, gender earnings gaps in medicine, and healthcare payment models.

Boris Kralj, PhD, is an experienced economist and professor specializing in health economics and labor economics. With a diverse academic background and extensive professional experience, Dr. Kralj has made contributions to this field through his research, teaching, and consulting work. Dr. Kralj has held various academic positions, including Adjunct Assistant Professor and Lecturer at McMaster University’s Department of Economics. He has taught a range of courses on microeconomics, macroeconomics, labor economics, industrial organization, and health economics at McMaster University, the University of Toronto, and Ryerson University.
He has made contributions to academic literature, publishing research articles in respected journals such as Health Economics, the Canadian Medical Association Journal, Canadian Public Policy, and Health Policy. His publications cover a wide range of topics, including physician workforce planning, nurse employment patterns, gender earnings gaps in medicine, and healthcare payment models.

Research Interests: trial design; mHealth; infectious diseases; HIV; biostatistics; mother and child health; research synthesis; meta-epidemiology.

Research Interests: trial design; mHealth; infectious diseases; HIV; biostatistics; mother and child health; research synthesis; meta-epidemiology.

Research Interests: Supporting the use of research evidence in health and social-system policy making.

Research Interests: Supporting the use of research evidence in health and social-system policy making.

Research Interests: guideline development; systematic reviews; health related quality of life; knowledge translation.

Research Interests: guideline development; systematic reviews; health related quality of life; knowledge translation.

Dr. Smaill is actively involved in clinical trials in HIV management, the development of vaccines for tuberculosis and management of infections in pregnancy. Her interest in HIV infection includes multicentre trials to evaluate efficacy and side-effects of different antiretroviral regimens and work on gender differences in the management of HIV infection. Dr. Smaill is also working with Dr. Xing on an adenovirus-based vaccine for tuberculosis and has completed a successful Phase 1 clinical trial in healthy volunteers, demonstrating the safety and immunogenicity of novel TB vaccine.

Dr. Smaill has an ongoing commitment to complete and update several Cochrane Systematic Reviews related to the management of infections in pregnancy, with a focus on treatment of asymptomatic bacteriuria and antibiotic prophylaxis for cesarean sections.

Clinical Focus

Dr. Smaill is a medical microbiologist for the Hamilton Regional Laboratory Medicine Program,and consultant in infectious diseases and infection control and the research lead of the HIV clinic at Hamilton Health Sciences.

Academic Interests

Dr. Smaill is a professor of Pathology and Molecular Medicine. She currently teaches in McMaster’s MD Undergraduate Program, the MD Postgraduate Program and in the Medical Sciences Graduate Program.

Research Interests: HIV infection; infections in immunocompromised hosts; diagnostic medical microbiology; infection control; infections in pregnancy; clinical epidemiology; tuberculosis; vaccines.

Dr. Smaill is actively involved in clinical trials in HIV management, the development of vaccines for tuberculosis and management of infections in pregnancy. Her interest in HIV infection includes multicentre trials to evaluate efficacy and side-effects of different antiretroviral regimens and work on gender differences in the management of HIV infection. Dr. Smaill is also working with Dr. Xing on an adenovirus-based vaccine for tuberculosis and has completed a successful Phase 1 clinical trial in healthy volunteers, demonstrating the safety and immunogenicity of novel TB vaccine.

Dr. Smaill has an ongoing commitment to complete and update several Cochrane Systematic Reviews related to the management of infections in pregnancy, with a focus on treatment of asymptomatic bacteriuria and antibiotic prophylaxis for cesarean sections.

Clinical Focus

Dr. Smaill is a medical microbiologist for the Hamilton Regional Laboratory Medicine Program,and consultant in infectious diseases and infection control and the research lead of the HIV clinic at Hamilton Health Sciences.

Academic Interests

Dr. Smaill is a professor of Pathology and Molecular Medicine. She currently teaches in McMaster’s MD Undergraduate Program, the MD Postgraduate Program and in the Medical Sciences Graduate Program.

Research Interests: HIV infection; infections in immunocompromised hosts; diagnostic medical microbiology; infection control; infections in pregnancy; clinical epidemiology; tuberculosis; vaccines.