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.

Laura Anderson

PhD
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Laura Anderson
Associate Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Population and public health; life course epidemiology; chronic disease prevention; obesity; nutrition; measurement; women's and children's health

905-525-9140 ext. 21725
ln.anderson@mcmaster.ca

Andrea Baumann

B.Sc.N., M.Sc.N., Ph.D., FAAN, Distinguished University Professor
Faculty
Andrea Baumann
Associate Vice President (Global Health)
Centre Director of PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centre

905-525-9140 ext. 22581
baumanna@mcmaster.ca

Melissa Brouwers

Melissa Brouwers
Professor (part-time)


mbrouwer@mcmaster.ca

Fadi El-Jardali

MPH, PhD
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
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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

905-525-9140 ext. 22121
eljardf@mcmaster.ca

Amiram Gafni

DSc
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
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Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS: economic evaluation (development and empirical applications); modeling of consumers’ and providers’ behaviours (eg. The physician-patient encounter); health policy analysis

Phone number not available
gafni@mcmaster.ca

Kathy Georgiades

BA, MSc, PhD
Faculty
Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences
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Associate Professor

905-525-9140 ext. 21500
georgik@mcmaster.ca

Anne Marie Holbrook

MD, PharmD, MSc, FRCP(C)
Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology; General Internal Medicine
Anne Holbook
Professor
Division Director, Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology

905-525-9140 ext. 35269
holbrook@mcmaster.ca

Michelle Howard

PhD
Department of Family Medicine
Michelle Howard
Associate Professor
Member, McMaster Education Research, Innovation & Theory (MERIT) Program

905-525-9140 ext. 28502
mhoward@mcmaster.ca

Nick Kates

Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neuroscience
Nick Kates


nkates@mcmaster.ca

Melissa Kimber

RSW, MSW, PhD
Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences
Kimber, Melissa
Assistant Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Epidemiology, secondary and tertiary prevention of child maltreatment; intimate partner violence; mental disorders among children and adolescents.

905-525-9140 ext. 27220
kimberms@mcmaster.ca

Cristina Mattison

PhD
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
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Assistant Professor (Part-time)
Post-Doctoral Fellow
RESEARCH INTERESTS: health systems and health policy; global health; sexual and reproductive health and rights; mixed methods

905-525-9140 ext. 22146
mattisc@mcmaster.ca

Lawrence Mbuagbaw

MD, MPH, PhD
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Lawrence Mbuagbaw
Associate Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS: trial design; mHealth; infectious diseases; HIV; biostatistics; mother and child health; research synthesis; meta-epidemiology

905-525-9140 ext. 35929
mbuagblc@mcmaster.ca

Kaelan Moat

PhD
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine
Kaelan Moat
Assistant Professor
Managing Director, McMaster Health Forum
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Supporting the use of research evidence in health and social-system policy making.

905-525-9140 ext. 22121
moatka@mcmaster.ca

Daria O’Reilly

PhD
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine
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Associate Professor (Part-time)

Not Available
oreilld@mcmaster.ca

Holger Schünemann

MD, MSc, PhD, FRCPC
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact; Medicine, General Internal Medicine
Holger Schünemann
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.

905-525-9140 ext. 24931
holger.schunemann@mcmaster.ca

Fiona Smaill

MBChB, FRCPC
Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, Division of Molecular Medicine; Medicine, Infectious Diseases
Fiona Smaill
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.

RESEARCH INTERESTS: HIV infection; infections in immunocompromised hosts; diagnostic medical microbiology; infection control; infections in pregnancy; clinical epidemiology; tuberculosis; vaccines

905-521-2100 ext. 74190
smaill@mcmaster.ca

Olive Wahoush

RN, RSCN, M.Sc., Ph.D.
School of Nursing
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Associate Director
Newcomer Health, Community, and International Outreach

905-525-9140 ext. 22802
wahousho@mcmaster.ca



 

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