Health Economics
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Supervising program faculty members are listed here in alphabetical order by their primary specialty field affiliation. Please note that many program faculty members have expertise relevant to additional specialty fields and may supervise students in more than one field. Prospective students should review faculty members’ webpages and academic interests to select an appropriate potential supervisor.
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Paul Contoyannis
PhD
Associate Professor
Faculty
Research Interests: health dynamics; determinants of health and health inequalities; simulation based inference in microeconometric models; economic determinants of body weight; economic effects in adulthood of childhood abuse; intergenerational transmission of income and health inequality
Katherine Cuff
PhD
Professor
McMaster University Scholar
Faculty
Katherine Cuff is a full professor in the Economics Department at McMaster University where she has held a Tier II Canadian Research Chair in Public Economic Theory. She obtained her PhD from Queen’s University and her MA from York University. Her research in public economics includes work on optimal taxation, redistribution and fiscal federalism. She has also worked on issues in health care financing using economic experimental methods. She was one of the inaugural recipients of the McMaster University Scholar title. Katherine is currently the Managing Editor of the Canadian Journal of Economics and has also served as both an Editor of FinanzArchiv/Public Finance Analysis and an Associate Editor of Canadian Public Policy.
Research Interests: economic aspects of taxation and redistributive policies; health care financing; issues of federalism.
Katherine Cuff
PhD
Professor
McMaster University Scholar
Faculty
Michel Grignon
PhD
Professor
Department Chair of the Department of Health, Aging & Society
Faculty
Michel Grignon is a professor in the Department of Economics and the Department of Health, Aging and Society and the Graduate Chair of the Department of Health, Aging and Society. He is editor-in-chief of the journal Health Reform Observer – Observatoire des Réformes de Santé and is also Associate Scientist of Institut de Recherche et Documentation en Èconomie de la Santé in Paris, France. He was the Director of the Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis (CHEPA) from July 2011 to April 2017.
He was born in France and obtained his master’s equivalent at the National School for Statistics and Economics in Paris and his PhD at Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, also in Paris. Grignon has extensive experience at an international level in research projects and activities in the areas of health economics, health-related policies, health insurance and aging.
Working with colleagues at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, he is exploring how to assess health and provide healthcare among older people, comparing Canada’s aging population with countries like Japan, whose population is even older.
Research Interests: equity in health care utilization & financing; population aging; affordability & access to health and long-term care insurance and health care.
Michel Grignon
PhD
Professor
Department Chair of the Department of Health, Aging & Society
Faculty
Emmanuel Guindon
PhD
Associate Professor
Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis/Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Chair in Health Equity
Faculty
Emmanuel Guindon is the inaugural Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis (CHEPA)/Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Chair in Health Equity; an associate professor in the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact (HEI) and an associate member of the Department of Economics at McMaster University. Prior to joining McMaster University, Emmanuel was on Faculty at Université de Montréal and a staff economist at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.
Emmanuel is the recipient of a Rising Star Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Institute of Health Services and Policy Research, an Early Researcher Award from the Ontario Ministry of Research, Innovation and Science, and a Career development award in prevention from the Canadian Cancer Society. Emmanuel holds a PhD in Health Research Methodology from McMaster, an MA in economics from the University of Victoria and a BA in Economics from McGill University.
Research Interests: health equity; economics of health behaviours; health services research; empirical health economics and policy.
Emmanuel Guindon
PhD
Associate Professor
Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis/Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Chair in Health Equity
Faculty
Jeremiah Hurley
PhD
Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences
Professor
Faculty
Research Interests: health care financing, particularly public and private roles in health care financing; equity in health care; resource allocation and funding in the health sector; normative economic analysis in the health sector; experimental methods in health economics.
Jeremiah Hurley
PhD
Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences
Professor
Faculty
Arthur Sweetman
PhD
Professor
Ontario Research Chair in Health Human Resources
Director, Health Policy PhD program
Faculty
Research Interests: economic and empirical aspects of health human resources and industrial relations; quantitative program evaluation.
Arthur Sweetman
PhD
Professor
Ontario Research Chair in Health Human Resources
Director, Health Policy PhD program
Faculty
Jean-Éric Tarride
PhD
Professor
Director, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis; McMaster Chair in Health Technology Management; Director, Programs for Assessment of Technology in Health (PATH)
Faculty
Research Interests: health technology assessment and management; methods for the economic evaluation of health technologies and programs.
Jean-Éric Tarride
PhD
Professor
Director, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis; McMaster Chair in Health Technology Management; Director, Programs for Assessment of Technology in Health (PATH)
Faculty
Paul Contoyannis
PhD
Associate Professor
Faculty
Research Interests: health dynamics; determinants of health and health inequalities; simulation based inference in microeconometric models; economic determinants of body weight; economic effects in adulthood of childhood abuse; intergenerational transmission of income and health inequality
Paul Contoyannis
PhD
Associate Professor
Faculty
Research Interests: health dynamics; determinants of health and health inequalities; simulation based inference in microeconometric models; economic determinants of body weight; economic effects in adulthood of childhood abuse; intergenerational transmission of income and health inequality
Katherine Cuff
PhD
Professor
McMaster University Scholar
Faculty
Katherine Cuff is a full professor in the Economics Department at McMaster University where she has held a Tier II Canadian Research Chair in Public Economic Theory. She obtained her PhD from Queen’s University and her MA from York University. Her research in public economics includes work on optimal taxation, redistribution and fiscal federalism. She has also worked on issues in health care financing using economic experimental methods. She was one of the inaugural recipients of the McMaster University Scholar title. Katherine is currently the Managing Editor of the Canadian Journal of Economics and has also served as both an Editor of FinanzArchiv/Public Finance Analysis and an Associate Editor of Canadian Public Policy.
Research Interests: economic aspects of taxation and redistributive policies; health care financing; issues of federalism.
Katherine Cuff
PhD
Professor
McMaster University Scholar
Faculty
Katherine Cuff is a full professor in the Economics Department at McMaster University where she has held a Tier II Canadian Research Chair in Public Economic Theory. She obtained her PhD from Queen’s University and her MA from York University. Her research in public economics includes work on optimal taxation, redistribution and fiscal federalism. She has also worked on issues in health care financing using economic experimental methods. She was one of the inaugural recipients of the McMaster University Scholar title. Katherine is currently the Managing Editor of the Canadian Journal of Economics and has also served as both an Editor of FinanzArchiv/Public Finance Analysis and an Associate Editor of Canadian Public Policy.
Research Interests: economic aspects of taxation and redistributive policies; health care financing; issues of federalism.
Michel Grignon
PhD
Professor
Department Chair of the Department of Health, Aging & Society
Faculty
Michel Grignon is a professor in the Department of Economics and the Department of Health, Aging and Society and the Graduate Chair of the Department of Health, Aging and Society. He is editor-in-chief of the journal Health Reform Observer – Observatoire des Réformes de Santé and is also Associate Scientist of Institut de Recherche et Documentation en Èconomie de la Santé in Paris, France. He was the Director of the Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis (CHEPA) from July 2011 to April 2017.
He was born in France and obtained his master’s equivalent at the National School for Statistics and Economics in Paris and his PhD at Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, also in Paris. Grignon has extensive experience at an international level in research projects and activities in the areas of health economics, health-related policies, health insurance and aging.
Working with colleagues at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, he is exploring how to assess health and provide healthcare among older people, comparing Canada’s aging population with countries like Japan, whose population is even older.
Research Interests: equity in health care utilization & financing; population aging; affordability & access to health and long-term care insurance and health care.
Michel Grignon
PhD
Professor
Department Chair of the Department of Health, Aging & Society
Faculty
Michel Grignon is a professor in the Department of Economics and the Department of Health, Aging and Society and the Graduate Chair of the Department of Health, Aging and Society. He is editor-in-chief of the journal Health Reform Observer – Observatoire des Réformes de Santé and is also Associate Scientist of Institut de Recherche et Documentation en Èconomie de la Santé in Paris, France. He was the Director of the Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis (CHEPA) from July 2011 to April 2017.
He was born in France and obtained his master’s equivalent at the National School for Statistics and Economics in Paris and his PhD at Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, also in Paris. Grignon has extensive experience at an international level in research projects and activities in the areas of health economics, health-related policies, health insurance and aging.
Working with colleagues at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, he is exploring how to assess health and provide healthcare among older people, comparing Canada’s aging population with countries like Japan, whose population is even older.
Research Interests: equity in health care utilization & financing; population aging; affordability & access to health and long-term care insurance and health care.
Emmanuel Guindon
PhD
Associate Professor
Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis/Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Chair in Health Equity
Faculty
Emmanuel Guindon is the inaugural Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis (CHEPA)/Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Chair in Health Equity; an associate professor in the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact (HEI) and an associate member of the Department of Economics at McMaster University. Prior to joining McMaster University, Emmanuel was on Faculty at Université de Montréal and a staff economist at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.
Emmanuel is the recipient of a Rising Star Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Institute of Health Services and Policy Research, an Early Researcher Award from the Ontario Ministry of Research, Innovation and Science, and a Career development award in prevention from the Canadian Cancer Society. Emmanuel holds a PhD in Health Research Methodology from McMaster, an MA in economics from the University of Victoria and a BA in Economics from McGill University.
Research Interests: health equity; economics of health behaviours; health services research; empirical health economics and policy.
Emmanuel Guindon
PhD
Associate Professor
Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis/Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Chair in Health Equity
Faculty
Emmanuel Guindon is the inaugural Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis (CHEPA)/Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Chair in Health Equity; an associate professor in the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact (HEI) and an associate member of the Department of Economics at McMaster University. Prior to joining McMaster University, Emmanuel was on Faculty at Université de Montréal and a staff economist at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.
Emmanuel is the recipient of a Rising Star Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Institute of Health Services and Policy Research, an Early Researcher Award from the Ontario Ministry of Research, Innovation and Science, and a Career development award in prevention from the Canadian Cancer Society. Emmanuel holds a PhD in Health Research Methodology from McMaster, an MA in economics from the University of Victoria and a BA in Economics from McGill University.
Research Interests: health equity; economics of health behaviours; health services research; empirical health economics and policy.
Jeremiah Hurley
PhD
Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences
Professor
Faculty
Research Interests: health care financing, particularly public and private roles in health care financing; equity in health care; resource allocation and funding in the health sector; normative economic analysis in the health sector; experimental methods in health economics.
Jeremiah Hurley
PhD
Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences
Professor
Faculty
Research Interests: health care financing, particularly public and private roles in health care financing; equity in health care; resource allocation and funding in the health sector; normative economic analysis in the health sector; experimental methods in health economics.
Arthur Sweetman
PhD
Professor
Ontario Research Chair in Health Human Resources
Director, Health Policy PhD program
Faculty
Research Interests: economic and empirical aspects of health human resources and industrial relations; quantitative program evaluation.
Arthur Sweetman
PhD
Professor
Ontario Research Chair in Health Human Resources
Director, Health Policy PhD program
Faculty
Research Interests: economic and empirical aspects of health human resources and industrial relations; quantitative program evaluation.
Jean-Éric Tarride
PhD
Professor
Director, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis; McMaster Chair in Health Technology Management; Director, Programs for Assessment of Technology in Health (PATH)
Faculty
Research Interests: health technology assessment and management; methods for the economic evaluation of health technologies and programs.
Jean-Éric Tarride
PhD
Professor
Director, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis; McMaster Chair in Health Technology Management; Director, Programs for Assessment of Technology in Health (PATH)
Faculty
Research Interests: health technology assessment and management; methods for the economic evaluation of health technologies and programs.
Political Studies
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Supervising program faculty members are listed here in alphabetical order by their primary specialty field affiliation. Please note that many program faculty members have expertise relevant to additional specialty fields and may supervise students in more than one field. Prospective students should review faculty members’ webpages and academic interests to select an appropriate potential supervisor.
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Julia Abelson
PhD
Professor
Faculty
Julia Abelson is a professor in the Department of Health Evidence and Impact and an associate member of the Department of Political Science. She was director of the Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis (CHEPA) from 2006-2011. She was also the director of McMaster’s Health Policy PhD program from 2017-2022. Julia Abelson is a past recipient of a Canadian Institutes of Health Research New Investigator award and an Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Career Scientist award.
Abelson obtained her M.Sc. in Health Policy and Management from the Harvard School of Public Health and her doctorate in social and policy sciences at the University of Bath, U.K. Her research interests include public engagement in health system governance; the analysis of the determinants of health policy decision-making; and the evaluation of innovations in the organization, funding and delivery of health services. Through her research, education and service activities, Abelson works closely with decision-makers in provincial, regional and local governments.
Research Interests: public engagement methods and evaluation; values in health policy analysis; politics of health policy.
Katherine Boothe
PhD
Associate Professor
Member, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis
Faculty
Katherine Boothe is an associate professor in McMaster’s Political Science department and a member of CHEPA. She holds a PhD and an MA from the University of British Columbia and a BA (Hons.) from the University of Alberta. Her research focuses on comparative public policy in advanced industrial democracies, with a focus on health policy, particularly the development and reform of public pharmaceutical insurance programs.
Research Interests: Canadian and comparative politics; public policy in advanced industrial democracies; health and social policy; federalism.
Katherine Boothe
PhD
Associate Professor
Member, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis
Faculty
Andrew Costa
PhD
Associate Professor
Schlegel Research Chair in Clinical Epidemiology & Aging
Faculty
Andrew Costa is an associate professor and Schlegel Research Chair in Clinical Epidemiology & Aging in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics at McMaster University. He also serves as the research lead at the DeGroote School of Medicine, Waterloo Regional Campus. He is an interRAI Fellow where he is engaged in the Network of Excellence in Acute Care (iNEAC) and leads the Emergency Department Working Group. He has received CIHR awards for his research in health services and policy and is a member of the Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis (CHEPA).
Academic Interests
Dr. Costa’s research program promotes evidence-based care and policy in seniors and geriatric care. His program of research makes use of health information and technology to develop better models of care and decision support systems in home and community care, emergency departments and acute care. His current work is focused on the development and evaluation of models of care for avoidable emergency department use and care of the elderly in emergency departments. He is an interRAI Fellow where he is engaged in the Network of Excellence in Acute Care. Dr. Costa’s work makes use of large health care data repositories, multi-site prospective cohort studies and pragmatic trial methods. He also has an active interest in the development and use of funding and performance systems in health care reform.
Research Interests: Big Data and geriatric models of care; avoidable emergency department and acute care use among frail older adults.
Andrew Costa
PhD
Associate Professor
Schlegel Research Chair in Clinical Epidemiology & Aging
Faculty
John Lavis
MD, PhD
Professor
Director, McMaster Health Forum
Faculty
Research Interests: use of research evidence, citizen values and stakeholder insights in policy making; politics of health and social systems.
John Lavis
MD, PhD
Professor
Director, McMaster Health Forum
Faculty
Gillian Mulvale
PhD
Associate Professor, Health Policy and Management, DeGroote School of Business
Faculty
Research Interests: health policy, mental health, co-design and co-production of services for structurally vulnerable populations.
Gillian Mulvale
PhD
Associate Professor, Health Policy and Management, DeGroote School of Business
Faculty
Glen Randall
PhD
Co-Director, Masters in Health Management
Associate Professor
Faculty
Glen Randall specializes in health policy and strategic management. He has more than twenty years of experience working with leaders in government, regulatory agencies and health care organizations. He has been the Chief Executive Officer for one of Ontario’s health regulatory colleges and has served as a member of a number of Boards of Directors.
Research Interests: impact of health care restructuring on health professionals; privatization of health care services; business-government relations; governance and strategic management in the not-for-profit sector.
Glen Randall
PhD
Co-Director, Masters in Health Management
Associate Professor
Faculty
Lisa Schwartz
PhD
Professor
Arnold L. Johnson Chair in Health Care Ethics
Faculty
Research Interests: humanitarian health care ethics; global health ethics; the teaching of ethics in health care education; patient advocacy; research ethics; bioethics; privacy and confidentiality.
Lisa Schwartz
PhD
Professor
Arnold L. Johnson Chair in Health Care Ethics
Faculty
Michael Wilson
PhD
Associate Professor
Assistant Director, McMaster Health Forum
Faculty
Research Interests: knowledge translation; citizen engagement methods and evaluation; politics of health systems.
Michael Wilson
PhD
Associate Professor
Assistant Director, McMaster Health Forum
Faculty
Julia Abelson
PhD
Professor
Faculty
Julia Abelson is a professor in the Department of Health Evidence and Impact and an associate member of the Department of Political Science. She was director of the Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis (CHEPA) from 2006-2011. She was also the director of McMaster’s Health Policy PhD program from 2017-2022. Julia Abelson is a past recipient of a Canadian Institutes of Health Research New Investigator award and an Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Career Scientist award.
Abelson obtained her M.Sc. in Health Policy and Management from the Harvard School of Public Health and her doctorate in social and policy sciences at the University of Bath, U.K. Her research interests include public engagement in health system governance; the analysis of the determinants of health policy decision-making; and the evaluation of innovations in the organization, funding and delivery of health services. Through her research, education and service activities, Abelson works closely with decision-makers in provincial, regional and local governments.
Research Interests: public engagement methods and evaluation; values in health policy analysis; politics of health policy.
Julia Abelson
PhD
Professor
Faculty
Julia Abelson is a professor in the Department of Health Evidence and Impact and an associate member of the Department of Political Science. She was director of the Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis (CHEPA) from 2006-2011. She was also the director of McMaster’s Health Policy PhD program from 2017-2022. Julia Abelson is a past recipient of a Canadian Institutes of Health Research New Investigator award and an Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Career Scientist award.
Abelson obtained her M.Sc. in Health Policy and Management from the Harvard School of Public Health and her doctorate in social and policy sciences at the University of Bath, U.K. Her research interests include public engagement in health system governance; the analysis of the determinants of health policy decision-making; and the evaluation of innovations in the organization, funding and delivery of health services. Through her research, education and service activities, Abelson works closely with decision-makers in provincial, regional and local governments.
Research Interests: public engagement methods and evaluation; values in health policy analysis; politics of health policy.
Katherine Boothe
PhD
Associate Professor
Member, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis
Faculty
Katherine Boothe is an associate professor in McMaster’s Political Science department and a member of CHEPA. She holds a PhD and an MA from the University of British Columbia and a BA (Hons.) from the University of Alberta. Her research focuses on comparative public policy in advanced industrial democracies, with a focus on health policy, particularly the development and reform of public pharmaceutical insurance programs.
Research Interests: Canadian and comparative politics; public policy in advanced industrial democracies; health and social policy; federalism.
Katherine Boothe
PhD
Associate Professor
Member, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis
Faculty
Katherine Boothe is an associate professor in McMaster’s Political Science department and a member of CHEPA. She holds a PhD and an MA from the University of British Columbia and a BA (Hons.) from the University of Alberta. Her research focuses on comparative public policy in advanced industrial democracies, with a focus on health policy, particularly the development and reform of public pharmaceutical insurance programs.
Research Interests: Canadian and comparative politics; public policy in advanced industrial democracies; health and social policy; federalism.
Andrew Costa
PhD
Associate Professor
Schlegel Research Chair in Clinical Epidemiology & Aging
Faculty
Andrew Costa is an associate professor and Schlegel Research Chair in Clinical Epidemiology & Aging in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics at McMaster University. He also serves as the research lead at the DeGroote School of Medicine, Waterloo Regional Campus. He is an interRAI Fellow where he is engaged in the Network of Excellence in Acute Care (iNEAC) and leads the Emergency Department Working Group. He has received CIHR awards for his research in health services and policy and is a member of the Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis (CHEPA).
Academic Interests
Dr. Costa’s research program promotes evidence-based care and policy in seniors and geriatric care. His program of research makes use of health information and technology to develop better models of care and decision support systems in home and community care, emergency departments and acute care. His current work is focused on the development and evaluation of models of care for avoidable emergency department use and care of the elderly in emergency departments. He is an interRAI Fellow where he is engaged in the Network of Excellence in Acute Care. Dr. Costa’s work makes use of large health care data repositories, multi-site prospective cohort studies and pragmatic trial methods. He also has an active interest in the development and use of funding and performance systems in health care reform.
Research Interests: Big Data and geriatric models of care; avoidable emergency department and acute care use among frail older adults.
Andrew Costa
PhD
Associate Professor
Schlegel Research Chair in Clinical Epidemiology & Aging
Faculty
Andrew Costa is an associate professor and Schlegel Research Chair in Clinical Epidemiology & Aging in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics at McMaster University. He also serves as the research lead at the DeGroote School of Medicine, Waterloo Regional Campus. He is an interRAI Fellow where he is engaged in the Network of Excellence in Acute Care (iNEAC) and leads the Emergency Department Working Group. He has received CIHR awards for his research in health services and policy and is a member of the Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis (CHEPA).
Academic Interests
Dr. Costa’s research program promotes evidence-based care and policy in seniors and geriatric care. His program of research makes use of health information and technology to develop better models of care and decision support systems in home and community care, emergency departments and acute care. His current work is focused on the development and evaluation of models of care for avoidable emergency department use and care of the elderly in emergency departments. He is an interRAI Fellow where he is engaged in the Network of Excellence in Acute Care. Dr. Costa’s work makes use of large health care data repositories, multi-site prospective cohort studies and pragmatic trial methods. He also has an active interest in the development and use of funding and performance systems in health care reform.
Research Interests: Big Data and geriatric models of care; avoidable emergency department and acute care use among frail older adults.
John Lavis
MD, PhD
Professor
Director, McMaster Health Forum
Faculty
Research Interests: use of research evidence, citizen values and stakeholder insights in policy making; politics of health and social systems.
John Lavis
MD, PhD
Professor
Director, McMaster Health Forum
Faculty
Research Interests: use of research evidence, citizen values and stakeholder insights in policy making; politics of health and social systems.
Gillian Mulvale
PhD
Associate Professor, Health Policy and Management, DeGroote School of Business
Faculty
Research Interests: health policy, mental health, co-design and co-production of services for structurally vulnerable populations.
Gillian Mulvale
PhD
Associate Professor, Health Policy and Management, DeGroote School of Business
Faculty
Research Interests: health policy, mental health, co-design and co-production of services for structurally vulnerable populations.
Glen Randall
PhD
Co-Director, Masters in Health Management
Associate Professor
Faculty
Glen Randall specializes in health policy and strategic management. He has more than twenty years of experience working with leaders in government, regulatory agencies and health care organizations. He has been the Chief Executive Officer for one of Ontario’s health regulatory colleges and has served as a member of a number of Boards of Directors.
Research Interests: impact of health care restructuring on health professionals; privatization of health care services; business-government relations; governance and strategic management in the not-for-profit sector.
Glen Randall
PhD
Co-Director, Masters in Health Management
Associate Professor
Faculty
Glen Randall specializes in health policy and strategic management. He has more than twenty years of experience working with leaders in government, regulatory agencies and health care organizations. He has been the Chief Executive Officer for one of Ontario’s health regulatory colleges and has served as a member of a number of Boards of Directors.
Research Interests: impact of health care restructuring on health professionals; privatization of health care services; business-government relations; governance and strategic management in the not-for-profit sector.
Lisa Schwartz
PhD
Professor
Arnold L. Johnson Chair in Health Care Ethics
Faculty
Research Interests: humanitarian health care ethics; global health ethics; the teaching of ethics in health care education; patient advocacy; research ethics; bioethics; privacy and confidentiality.
Lisa Schwartz
PhD
Professor
Arnold L. Johnson Chair in Health Care Ethics
Faculty
Research Interests: humanitarian health care ethics; global health ethics; the teaching of ethics in health care education; patient advocacy; research ethics; bioethics; privacy and confidentiality.
Michael Wilson
PhD
Associate Professor
Assistant Director, McMaster Health Forum
Faculty
Research Interests: knowledge translation; citizen engagement methods and evaluation; politics of health systems.
Michael Wilson
PhD
Associate Professor
Assistant Director, McMaster Health Forum
Faculty
Research Interests: knowledge translation; citizen engagement methods and evaluation; politics of health systems.
Health Systems & Society
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Supervising program faculty members are listed here in alphabetical order by their primary specialty field affiliation. Please note that many program faculty members have expertise relevant to additional specialty fields and may supervise students in more than one field. Prospective students should review faculty members’ webpages and academic interests to select an appropriate potential supervisor.
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Ellen Amster
PhD
Associate Professor
Jason A. Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine; Scholar, McMaster Education Research, Innovation & Theory (MERIT) Program
Faculty
Ellen Amster is the Jason A. Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine at McMaster University and an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and the Department of History, specializing in global health and women’s health. She is also a member of CHEPA. A Fulbright scholar and a Chateaubriand scholar of the government of France, she holds a PhD and a Masters’ degree in history from the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in political science from the University of Chicago.
Before coming to McMaster, she was an Associate Professor in history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has research and field expertise as an Islamicist and an Arabist, and has served as an Arabic-English-French translator for ORBIS, an international ocular surgery non-governmental organization (NGO) during its mission in Morocco. She uses qualitative and mixed-methods to study the social aspects of health policy; barriers to care; the cultural experience of illness; and social attitudes to birth, midwifery, sexuality, violence against women and infant health in Morocco.
Ellen Amster
PhD
Associate Professor
Jason A. Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine; Scholar, McMaster Education Research, Innovation & Theory (MERIT) Program
Faculty
Laura Anderson
Associate Professor
Research activities include:
- Addressing child nutrition and development and education outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal cohort and randomized controlled trial,
- Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA): Building COVID-19 Platform for Research in Canada,
- Cardiovascular disease attributable to nutrition-related causes: Estimating future burden and evaluating nutrition policy options for maximizing population health benefit in Canada,
- Cigarette taxes, prices and tax evasion in Canada: implications for tobacco control,
- Clustering of obesity related characteristics and associations with body mass index, waist circumference, and body fatness
Nancy Doubleday
PhD, LLB
Hope Chair in Peace and Health
Professor
Research Interests: peace and health in complex ecological-social-cultural systems; international law and policy; the Arctic Region and globalization; adaptive co-management.
Nancy Doubleday
PhD, LLB
Hope Chair in Peace and Health
Professor
Jim Dunn
PhD
Department of Health, Aging & Society
Professor
Research Interests: socio-economic inequalities in health in urban areas; population health equity.
Jim Dunn
PhD
Department of Health, Aging & Society
Professor
Jenna Evans
PhD
Assistant Professor
Health Policy & Management, DeGroote School of Business
Faculty
Research Interests: policy implementation in organizations and in practice, particularly regarding integrated care delivery and quality improvement; qualitative methods; organizational behaviour.
Jenna Evans
PhD
Assistant Professor
Health Policy & Management, DeGroote School of Business
Faculty
Chelsea Gabel
PhD
Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Well-Being, Community Engagement and Innovation
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: partnering with Indigenous communities to explore and address health and well-being issues; examining the impact of digital technology in these communities.
Chelsea Gabel
PhD
Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Well-Being, Community Engagement and Innovation
Assistant Professor
Lawrence Grierson
PhD
Associate Professor
Assistant Dean, Health Sciences Education MSc Program; Scientist, McMaster Education Research, Innovation & Theory (MERIT) Program
Faculty
Lawrence Grierson
PhD
Associate Professor
Assistant Dean, Health Sciences Education MSc Program; Scientist, McMaster Education Research, Innovation & Theory (MERIT) Program
Faculty
Magdalena Janus
PhD
Professor
Faculty
Research Interests: population-level measurement of children’s developmental health at school entry: methodology, outcomes and correlates; individual, community and policy impact on children’s development; transition to school for children with special needs.
Lydia Kapiriri
PhD
Associate Professor
Faculty
Lydia Kapiriri is an associate professor in McMaster’s Department of Health, Aging and Society and a member of CHEPA. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Medicine and General Surgery and a diploma in Public Health from Makerere University, Uganda. She also has masters in Public Health from Royal Tropical Institute and Medicine, Public Health from Makerere University. She earned her PhD at the University of Bergen, Norway, Faculty of Medicine, Centre for International Health, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto.
Her research is focused mainly on health systems and global health research, including priority setting in health care at the different levels of decision making (macro, meso and micro levels). She is also involved in research related to ethical issues in public health and global health, including international research ethics.
Research Interests: global health; HIV preventative behaviour; priority setting in health care.
Stacey Ritz
PhD
Assistant Dean, BHSc (Honours) Program
Associate Professor
Research Interests: complexities of addressing sex/gender in biomedical research; critical literacy and reflexibity in medical and health education.
Stacey Ritz
PhD
Assistant Dean, BHSc (Honours) Program
Associate Professor
Hsien Seow
PhD
Associate Professor
Site Director, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) Associate Member
Faculty
Hsien Seow, PhD (Johns Hopkins), BSc (Yale), is the Canada Research Chair in Palliative Care and Health System Innovation at McMaster University and Director of the ICES-McMaster site. Previously he held a CIHR New Investigator award and the Cancer Care Ontario Chair in Health Services Research.
Hsien Seow
PhD
Associate Professor
Site Director, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) Associate Member
Faculty
Meredith Vanstone
PhD
Associate Professor
Faculty
Meredith Vanstone is an associate professor in McMaster’s Department of Family Medicine and a member of the Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis (CHEPA). She holds a PhD in Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (health professional education) from Western University. Vanstone uses a variety of qualitative research methods to investigate socially and ethically complex areas of primary care. This means she examines how physicians and patients work together to make decisions about aspects of health care for which evidence doesn’t exist, is ambiguous, or is not the main decision determinant. Her policy work interfaces with health professional education through a number of projects examining how health professionals respond to explicit, implicit and structural policies that shape their professional lives. By focusing on policy and practice areas with an ethical or moral valence, her research aims to support ethical health professional practice through education and policy initiatives. Vanstone’s work is supported by funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Public Health Agency of Canada, the College of Family Physicians of Canada, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and the Greenwall Foundation. Vanstone supervises in the following graduate programs: Health Sciences Education (MSc), Health Research Methodology (Msc and PhD) and Health Policy (PhD).
Meredith Vanstone
PhD
Associate Professor
Faculty
Jennifer Walker
PhD
Associate Professor
Faculty
Jennifer Walker is a Haudenosaunee member of Six Nations of the Grand River with a Ph.D. in Community Health Sciences (Epidemiology) from the University of Calgary. Dr. Walker’s work focuses largely on Indigenous community-engaged health research using large health services databases through her work as a Core Scientist and Indigenous Health Lead at ICES in Ontario and through the Health Data Research Network Canada.
Dr. Walker has an active research community-engaged research program in aging and dementia. She is the co-lead of the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration and Aging’s (CCNA) Team 18 – Issues in Dementia Care for Indigenous Populations and the lead for the Indigenous Cognitive Health Program. She has also led the validation of the Canadian Indigenous Cognitive Assessment tool and the implementation of the tool in Anishinabek communities of Northern Ontario.
Research Interests: Indigenous health services; aging; health services research; knowledge translation; population and public health.
Marisa Young
PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: sociology of mental health; work-family interface; quantitative methods; sociology of work and occupations; social psychology; sociology of family; sociology of urban health.
Ellen Amster
PhD
Associate Professor
Jason A. Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine; Scholar, McMaster Education Research, Innovation & Theory (MERIT) Program
Faculty
Ellen Amster is the Jason A. Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine at McMaster University and an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and the Department of History, specializing in global health and women’s health. She is also a member of CHEPA. A Fulbright scholar and a Chateaubriand scholar of the government of France, she holds a PhD and a Masters’ degree in history from the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in political science from the University of Chicago.
Before coming to McMaster, she was an Associate Professor in history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has research and field expertise as an Islamicist and an Arabist, and has served as an Arabic-English-French translator for ORBIS, an international ocular surgery non-governmental organization (NGO) during its mission in Morocco. She uses qualitative and mixed-methods to study the social aspects of health policy; barriers to care; the cultural experience of illness; and social attitudes to birth, midwifery, sexuality, violence against women and infant health in Morocco.
Ellen Amster
PhD
Associate Professor
Jason A. Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine; Scholar, McMaster Education Research, Innovation & Theory (MERIT) Program
Faculty
Ellen Amster is the Jason A. Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine at McMaster University and an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and the Department of History, specializing in global health and women’s health. She is also a member of CHEPA. A Fulbright scholar and a Chateaubriand scholar of the government of France, she holds a PhD and a Masters’ degree in history from the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in political science from the University of Chicago.
Before coming to McMaster, she was an Associate Professor in history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has research and field expertise as an Islamicist and an Arabist, and has served as an Arabic-English-French translator for ORBIS, an international ocular surgery non-governmental organization (NGO) during its mission in Morocco. She uses qualitative and mixed-methods to study the social aspects of health policy; barriers to care; the cultural experience of illness; and social attitudes to birth, midwifery, sexuality, violence against women and infant health in Morocco.
Laura Anderson
Associate Professor
Research activities include:
- Addressing child nutrition and development and education outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal cohort and randomized controlled trial,
- Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA): Building COVID-19 Platform for Research in Canada,
- Cardiovascular disease attributable to nutrition-related causes: Estimating future burden and evaluating nutrition policy options for maximizing population health benefit in Canada,
- Cigarette taxes, prices and tax evasion in Canada: implications for tobacco control,
- Clustering of obesity related characteristics and associations with body mass index, waist circumference, and body fatness
Laura Anderson
Associate Professor
Research activities include:
- Addressing child nutrition and development and education outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal cohort and randomized controlled trial,
- Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA): Building COVID-19 Platform for Research in Canada,
- Cardiovascular disease attributable to nutrition-related causes: Estimating future burden and evaluating nutrition policy options for maximizing population health benefit in Canada,
- Cigarette taxes, prices and tax evasion in Canada: implications for tobacco control,
- Clustering of obesity related characteristics and associations with body mass index, waist circumference, and body fatness
Nancy Doubleday
PhD, LLB
Hope Chair in Peace and Health
Professor
Research Interests: peace and health in complex ecological-social-cultural systems; international law and policy; the Arctic Region and globalization; adaptive co-management.
Nancy Doubleday
PhD, LLB
Hope Chair in Peace and Health
Professor
Research Interests: peace and health in complex ecological-social-cultural systems; international law and policy; the Arctic Region and globalization; adaptive co-management.
Jim Dunn
PhD
Department of Health, Aging & Society
Professor
Research Interests: socio-economic inequalities in health in urban areas; population health equity.
Jim Dunn
PhD
Department of Health, Aging & Society
Professor
Research Interests: socio-economic inequalities in health in urban areas; population health equity.
Jenna Evans
PhD
Assistant Professor
Health Policy & Management, DeGroote School of Business
Faculty
Research Interests: policy implementation in organizations and in practice, particularly regarding integrated care delivery and quality improvement; qualitative methods; organizational behaviour.
Jenna Evans
PhD
Assistant Professor
Health Policy & Management, DeGroote School of Business
Faculty
Research Interests: policy implementation in organizations and in practice, particularly regarding integrated care delivery and quality improvement; qualitative methods; organizational behaviour.
Chelsea Gabel
PhD
Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Well-Being, Community Engagement and Innovation
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: partnering with Indigenous communities to explore and address health and well-being issues; examining the impact of digital technology in these communities.
Chelsea Gabel
PhD
Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Well-Being, Community Engagement and Innovation
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: partnering with Indigenous communities to explore and address health and well-being issues; examining the impact of digital technology in these communities.
Lawrence Grierson
PhD
Associate Professor
Assistant Dean, Health Sciences Education MSc Program; Scientist, McMaster Education Research, Innovation & Theory (MERIT) Program
Faculty
Lawrence Grierson
PhD
Associate Professor
Assistant Dean, Health Sciences Education MSc Program; Scientist, McMaster Education Research, Innovation & Theory (MERIT) Program
Faculty
Magdalena Janus
PhD
Professor
Faculty
Research Interests: population-level measurement of children’s developmental health at school entry: methodology, outcomes and correlates; individual, community and policy impact on children’s development; transition to school for children with special needs.
Magdalena Janus
PhD
Professor
Faculty
Research Interests: population-level measurement of children’s developmental health at school entry: methodology, outcomes and correlates; individual, community and policy impact on children’s development; transition to school for children with special needs.
Lydia Kapiriri
PhD
Associate Professor
Faculty
Lydia Kapiriri is an associate professor in McMaster’s Department of Health, Aging and Society and a member of CHEPA. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Medicine and General Surgery and a diploma in Public Health from Makerere University, Uganda. She also has masters in Public Health from Royal Tropical Institute and Medicine, Public Health from Makerere University. She earned her PhD at the University of Bergen, Norway, Faculty of Medicine, Centre for International Health, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto.
Her research is focused mainly on health systems and global health research, including priority setting in health care at the different levels of decision making (macro, meso and micro levels). She is also involved in research related to ethical issues in public health and global health, including international research ethics.
Research Interests: global health; HIV preventative behaviour; priority setting in health care.
Lydia Kapiriri
PhD
Associate Professor
Faculty
Lydia Kapiriri is an associate professor in McMaster’s Department of Health, Aging and Society and a member of CHEPA. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Medicine and General Surgery and a diploma in Public Health from Makerere University, Uganda. She also has masters in Public Health from Royal Tropical Institute and Medicine, Public Health from Makerere University. She earned her PhD at the University of Bergen, Norway, Faculty of Medicine, Centre for International Health, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto.
Her research is focused mainly on health systems and global health research, including priority setting in health care at the different levels of decision making (macro, meso and micro levels). She is also involved in research related to ethical issues in public health and global health, including international research ethics.
Research Interests: global health; HIV preventative behaviour; priority setting in health care.
Stacey Ritz
PhD
Assistant Dean, BHSc (Honours) Program
Associate Professor
Research Interests: complexities of addressing sex/gender in biomedical research; critical literacy and reflexibity in medical and health education.
Stacey Ritz
PhD
Assistant Dean, BHSc (Honours) Program
Associate Professor
Research Interests: complexities of addressing sex/gender in biomedical research; critical literacy and reflexibity in medical and health education.
Hsien Seow
PhD
Associate Professor
Site Director, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) Associate Member
Faculty
Hsien Seow, PhD (Johns Hopkins), BSc (Yale), is the Canada Research Chair in Palliative Care and Health System Innovation at McMaster University and Director of the ICES-McMaster site. Previously he held a CIHR New Investigator award and the Cancer Care Ontario Chair in Health Services Research.
Hsien Seow
PhD
Associate Professor
Site Director, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) Associate Member
Faculty
Hsien Seow, PhD (Johns Hopkins), BSc (Yale), is the Canada Research Chair in Palliative Care and Health System Innovation at McMaster University and Director of the ICES-McMaster site. Previously he held a CIHR New Investigator award and the Cancer Care Ontario Chair in Health Services Research.
Meredith Vanstone
PhD
Associate Professor
Faculty
Meredith Vanstone is an associate professor in McMaster’s Department of Family Medicine and a member of the Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis (CHEPA). She holds a PhD in Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (health professional education) from Western University. Vanstone uses a variety of qualitative research methods to investigate socially and ethically complex areas of primary care. This means she examines how physicians and patients work together to make decisions about aspects of health care for which evidence doesn’t exist, is ambiguous, or is not the main decision determinant. Her policy work interfaces with health professional education through a number of projects examining how health professionals respond to explicit, implicit and structural policies that shape their professional lives. By focusing on policy and practice areas with an ethical or moral valence, her research aims to support ethical health professional practice through education and policy initiatives. Vanstone’s work is supported by funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Public Health Agency of Canada, the College of Family Physicians of Canada, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and the Greenwall Foundation. Vanstone supervises in the following graduate programs: Health Sciences Education (MSc), Health Research Methodology (Msc and PhD) and Health Policy (PhD).
Meredith Vanstone
PhD
Associate Professor
Faculty
Meredith Vanstone is an associate professor in McMaster’s Department of Family Medicine and a member of the Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis (CHEPA). She holds a PhD in Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (health professional education) from Western University. Vanstone uses a variety of qualitative research methods to investigate socially and ethically complex areas of primary care. This means she examines how physicians and patients work together to make decisions about aspects of health care for which evidence doesn’t exist, is ambiguous, or is not the main decision determinant. Her policy work interfaces with health professional education through a number of projects examining how health professionals respond to explicit, implicit and structural policies that shape their professional lives. By focusing on policy and practice areas with an ethical or moral valence, her research aims to support ethical health professional practice through education and policy initiatives. Vanstone’s work is supported by funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Public Health Agency of Canada, the College of Family Physicians of Canada, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and the Greenwall Foundation. Vanstone supervises in the following graduate programs: Health Sciences Education (MSc), Health Research Methodology (Msc and PhD) and Health Policy (PhD).
Jennifer Walker
PhD
Associate Professor
Faculty
Jennifer Walker is a Haudenosaunee member of Six Nations of the Grand River with a Ph.D. in Community Health Sciences (Epidemiology) from the University of Calgary. Dr. Walker’s work focuses largely on Indigenous community-engaged health research using large health services databases through her work as a Core Scientist and Indigenous Health Lead at ICES in Ontario and through the Health Data Research Network Canada.
Dr. Walker has an active research community-engaged research program in aging and dementia. She is the co-lead of the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration and Aging’s (CCNA) Team 18 – Issues in Dementia Care for Indigenous Populations and the lead for the Indigenous Cognitive Health Program. She has also led the validation of the Canadian Indigenous Cognitive Assessment tool and the implementation of the tool in Anishinabek communities of Northern Ontario.
Research Interests: Indigenous health services; aging; health services research; knowledge translation; population and public health.
Jennifer Walker
PhD
Associate Professor
Faculty
Jennifer Walker is a Haudenosaunee member of Six Nations of the Grand River with a Ph.D. in Community Health Sciences (Epidemiology) from the University of Calgary. Dr. Walker’s work focuses largely on Indigenous community-engaged health research using large health services databases through her work as a Core Scientist and Indigenous Health Lead at ICES in Ontario and through the Health Data Research Network Canada.
Dr. Walker has an active research community-engaged research program in aging and dementia. She is the co-lead of the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration and Aging’s (CCNA) Team 18 – Issues in Dementia Care for Indigenous Populations and the lead for the Indigenous Cognitive Health Program. She has also led the validation of the Canadian Indigenous Cognitive Assessment tool and the implementation of the tool in Anishinabek communities of Northern Ontario.
Research Interests: Indigenous health services; aging; health services research; knowledge translation; population and public health.
Marisa Young
PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: sociology of mental health; work-family interface; quantitative methods; sociology of work and occupations; social psychology; sociology of family; sociology of urban health.
Marisa Young
PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: sociology of mental health; work-family interface; quantitative methods; sociology of work and occupations; social psychology; sociology of family; sociology of urban health.