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The Health Policy PhD program has many affiliated program faculty members who work with students in our program. Faculty members listed here are not primary supervisors in the program but work with students as instructors, committee members or in other roles. For more information about each faculty member, please see their individual webpages.
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Laura Anderson
PhD
Associate Professor
Faculty
Laura N. Anderson is an assistant professor in the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact (HEI) at McMaster University and an adjunct scientist in the division of Child Health Evaluative Sciences at the SickKids Research Institute. She holds a master’s degree in epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of Western Ontario and a PhD in Epidemiology from the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. Anderson’s primary area of research is population and public health, with a focus on chronic disease prevention and modifiable determinants of health in early life. The methods used in her research include life-course epidemiology, survey design, population health interventions and analysis of big data. She is an investigator on multiple CIHR-funded projects related to obesity prevention. Dr. Anderson contributes to teaching and graduate student supervision in the Masters of Public Health (MPH) and Health Research Methods (HRM) programs at McMaster.
Research Interests: population and public health; life course epidemiology; chronic disease prevention; obesity; nutrition; measurement; women’s and children’s health.
Andrea Baumann
BScN, MScN, PhD, FAAN, Distinguished University Professor
Associate Vice President (Global Health)
Centre Director of PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centre
Faculty
Andrea Baumann
BScN, MScN, PhD, FAAN, Distinguished University Professor
Associate Vice President (Global Health)
Centre Director of PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centre
Faculty
Melissa Brouwers
Professor (part-time)
Melissa Brouwers
Professor (part-time)
Heather Bullock
PhD, MSc
Assistant Professor (part-time)
Heather Bullock
PhD, MSc
Assistant Professor (part-time)
Fadi El-Jardali
MPH, PhD
Associate Professor (Part-time)
Director, Knowledge to Policy (K2P) Center
Research Interests: health policymaking; knowledge translation; governance; performance reporting for health systems and organizations; quality of care; accreditation; patient safety; human resources for health.
Fadi El-Jardali
MPH, PhD
Associate Professor (Part-time)
Director, Knowledge to Policy (K2P) Center
Amiram Gafni
DSc
Professor
Faculty
Research Interests: economic evaluation (development and empirical applications); modeling of consumers’ and providers’ behaviours (e.g., The physician-patient encounter); health policy analysis.
Kathy Georgiades
BA, MSc, PhD
Associate Professor
Faculty
Kathy Georgiades
BA, MSc, PhD
Associate Professor
Faculty
Anne Holbrook
MD, PharmD, MSc, FRCP(C)
Professor
Division Director, Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology
Anne Holbrook
MD, PharmD, MSc, FRCP(C)
Professor
Division Director, Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology
Michelle Howard
PhD
Associate Professor
Member, McMaster Education Research, Innovation & Theory (MERIT) Program
Michelle Howard
PhD
Associate Professor
Member, McMaster Education Research, Innovation & Theory (MERIT) Program
Melissa Kimber
RSW, MSW, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: epidemiology, secondary and tertiary prevention of child maltreatment; intimate partner violence; mental disorders among children and adolescents.
Boris Kralj
PhD
Adjuct-assistant professor
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.
Cristina Mattison
PhD
Assistant Professor (Part-time)
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research Interests: health systems and health policy; global health; sexual and reproductive health and rights; mixed methods.
Cristina Mattison
PhD
Assistant Professor (Part-time)
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Lawrence Mbuagbaw
MD, MPH, PhD
Associate Professor
Faculty
Research Interests: trial design; mHealth; infectious diseases; HIV; biostatistics; mother and child health; research synthesis; meta-epidemiology.
Lawrence Mbuagbaw
MD, MPH, PhD
Associate Professor
Faculty
Kaelan Moat
PhD
Assistant Professor
Managing Director, McMaster Health Forum
Faculty
Research Interests: Supporting the use of research evidence in health and social-system policy making.
Kaelan Moat
PhD
Assistant Professor
Managing Director, McMaster Health Forum
Faculty
Daria O’Reilly
PhD
Associate Professor (Part-time)
Faculty
Holger Schünemann
MD, MSc, PhD, FRCPC
Professor, Clinical Epidemiology and Medicine
Co-Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases, Research Methods and Recommendations; Director, Cochrane Canada and McMaster GRADE Centre
Research Interests: guideline development; systematic reviews; health related quality of life; knowledge translation.
Holger Schünemann
MD, MSc, PhD, FRCPC
Professor, Clinical Epidemiology and Medicine
Co-Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases, Research Methods and Recommendations; Director, Cochrane Canada and McMaster GRADE Centre
Fiona Smaill
MBChB, FRCPC
Professor
Co-director, Special Immunology Services/HIV Clinic
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.
Fiona Smaill
MBChB, FRCPC
Professor
Co-director, Special Immunology Services/HIV Clinic
Olive Wahoush
RN, RSCN, MSc, PhD
Associate Director
Newcomer Health, Community, and International Outreach
Olive Wahoush
RN, RSCN, MSc, PhD
Associate Director
Newcomer Health, Community, and International Outreach
Laura Anderson
PhD
Associate Professor
Faculty
Laura N. Anderson is an assistant professor in the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact (HEI) at McMaster University and an adjunct scientist in the division of Child Health Evaluative Sciences at the SickKids Research Institute. She holds a master’s degree in epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of Western Ontario and a PhD in Epidemiology from the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. Anderson’s primary area of research is population and public health, with a focus on chronic disease prevention and modifiable determinants of health in early life. The methods used in her research include life-course epidemiology, survey design, population health interventions and analysis of big data. She is an investigator on multiple CIHR-funded projects related to obesity prevention. Dr. Anderson contributes to teaching and graduate student supervision in the Masters of Public Health (MPH) and Health Research Methods (HRM) programs at McMaster.
Research Interests: population and public health; life course epidemiology; chronic disease prevention; obesity; nutrition; measurement; women’s and children’s health.
Laura Anderson
PhD
Associate Professor
Faculty
Laura N. Anderson is an assistant professor in the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact (HEI) at McMaster University and an adjunct scientist in the division of Child Health Evaluative Sciences at the SickKids Research Institute. She holds a master’s degree in epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of Western Ontario and a PhD in Epidemiology from the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. Anderson’s primary area of research is population and public health, with a focus on chronic disease prevention and modifiable determinants of health in early life. The methods used in her research include life-course epidemiology, survey design, population health interventions and analysis of big data. She is an investigator on multiple CIHR-funded projects related to obesity prevention. Dr. Anderson contributes to teaching and graduate student supervision in the Masters of Public Health (MPH) and Health Research Methods (HRM) programs at McMaster.
Research Interests: population and public health; life course epidemiology; chronic disease prevention; obesity; nutrition; measurement; women’s and children’s health.
Andrea Baumann
BScN, MScN, PhD, FAAN, Distinguished University Professor
Associate Vice President (Global Health)
Centre Director of PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centre
Faculty
Andrea Baumann
BScN, MScN, PhD, FAAN, Distinguished University Professor
Associate Vice President (Global Health)
Centre Director of PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centre
Faculty
Melissa Brouwers
Professor (part-time)
Melissa Brouwers
Professor (part-time)
Heather Bullock
PhD, MSc
Assistant Professor (part-time)
Heather Bullock
PhD, MSc
Assistant Professor (part-time)
Fadi El-Jardali
MPH, PhD
Associate Professor (Part-time)
Director, Knowledge to Policy (K2P) Center
Research Interests: health policymaking; knowledge translation; governance; performance reporting for health systems and organizations; quality of care; accreditation; patient safety; human resources for health.
Fadi El-Jardali
MPH, PhD
Associate Professor (Part-time)
Director, Knowledge to Policy (K2P) Center
Research Interests: health policymaking; knowledge translation; governance; performance reporting for health systems and organizations; quality of care; accreditation; patient safety; human resources for health.
Amiram Gafni
DSc
Professor
Faculty
Research Interests: economic evaluation (development and empirical applications); modeling of consumers’ and providers’ behaviours (e.g., The physician-patient encounter); health policy analysis.
Amiram Gafni
DSc
Professor
Faculty
Research Interests: economic evaluation (development and empirical applications); modeling of consumers’ and providers’ behaviours (e.g., The physician-patient encounter); health policy analysis.
Kathy Georgiades
BA, MSc, PhD
Associate Professor
Faculty
Kathy Georgiades
BA, MSc, PhD
Associate Professor
Faculty
Anne Holbrook
MD, PharmD, MSc, FRCP(C)
Professor
Division Director, Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology
Anne Holbrook
MD, PharmD, MSc, FRCP(C)
Professor
Division Director, Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology
Michelle Howard
PhD
Associate Professor
Member, McMaster Education Research, Innovation & Theory (MERIT) Program
Michelle Howard
PhD
Associate Professor
Member, McMaster Education Research, Innovation & Theory (MERIT) Program
Melissa Kimber
RSW, MSW, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: epidemiology, secondary and tertiary prevention of child maltreatment; intimate partner violence; mental disorders among children and adolescents.
Melissa Kimber
RSW, MSW, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: epidemiology, secondary and tertiary prevention of child maltreatment; intimate partner violence; mental disorders among children and adolescents.
Boris Kralj
PhD
Adjuct-assistant professor
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
Adjuct-assistant professor
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.
Cristina Mattison
PhD
Assistant Professor (Part-time)
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research Interests: health systems and health policy; global health; sexual and reproductive health and rights; mixed methods.
Cristina Mattison
PhD
Assistant Professor (Part-time)
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research Interests: health systems and health policy; global health; sexual and reproductive health and rights; mixed methods.
Lawrence Mbuagbaw
MD, MPH, PhD
Associate Professor
Faculty
Research Interests: trial design; mHealth; infectious diseases; HIV; biostatistics; mother and child health; research synthesis; meta-epidemiology.
Lawrence Mbuagbaw
MD, MPH, PhD
Associate Professor
Faculty
Research Interests: trial design; mHealth; infectious diseases; HIV; biostatistics; mother and child health; research synthesis; meta-epidemiology.
Kaelan Moat
PhD
Assistant Professor
Managing Director, McMaster Health Forum
Faculty
Research Interests: Supporting the use of research evidence in health and social-system policy making.
Kaelan Moat
PhD
Assistant Professor
Managing Director, McMaster Health Forum
Faculty
Research Interests: Supporting the use of research evidence in health and social-system policy making.
Daria O’Reilly
PhD
Associate Professor (Part-time)
Faculty
Daria O’Reilly
PhD
Associate Professor (Part-time)
Faculty
Holger Schünemann
MD, MSc, PhD, FRCPC
Professor, Clinical Epidemiology and Medicine
Co-Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases, Research Methods and Recommendations; Director, Cochrane Canada and McMaster GRADE Centre
Research Interests: guideline development; systematic reviews; health related quality of life; knowledge translation.
Holger Schünemann
MD, MSc, PhD, FRCPC
Professor, Clinical Epidemiology and Medicine
Co-Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases, Research Methods and Recommendations; Director, Cochrane Canada and McMaster GRADE Centre
Research Interests: guideline development; systematic reviews; health related quality of life; knowledge translation.
Fiona Smaill
MBChB, FRCPC
Professor
Co-director, Special Immunology Services/HIV Clinic
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.
Fiona Smaill
MBChB, FRCPC
Professor
Co-director, Special Immunology Services/HIV Clinic
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.
Olive Wahoush
RN, RSCN, MSc, PhD
Associate Director
Newcomer Health, Community, and International Outreach
Olive Wahoush
RN, RSCN, MSc, PhD
Associate Director
Newcomer Health, Community, and International Outreach