Our program engages students to acquire the knowledge and skills they need to become leaders in their chosen field. Alumni can be found in government and non-governmental agencies, within academia and in the private sector. Learn about our alumni below.
Supervisor: Jean-eric Tarride
Dissertation: HIV in Mexico: A 10-year Population-Based Analysis to Evaluate Policy Changes in Diagnosis, Treatment and Early Mortality on PLWH 2008-2017
Current Position: Director, Global Value & Access at Gilead Sciences - (USA - Bay Area)
Supervisor: Steve Hanna
Dissertation: Trauma-informed care within and across systems of care
Supervisor: Jim Dunn
Dissertation: Socioeconomic Inequality of Suicide and Roles of Social Policy
Current Position: Post-doctoral Researcher, Brock University, Canada
Supervisor: Lisa Schwartz
Dissertation: Supporting the Development of Ethics Tools for Innovation in Humanitarian Contexts
Current Position: Medical Student, Queen's University, Canada
Supervisors: Andrew Costa and Julia Abelson
Dissertation: Examining the substitution effect of assisted living services in retirement homes in Ontario, Canadas Contexts
Current Position: Post-doctoral Research Fellow, McMaster University, Canada
Sultana Al Sabahi
Supervisor: Michael Wilson
Dissertation: Examining and Contextualizing Approaches to Establish Policy Support Organizations
Current Position: Head of department of research management and knowledge translation; The Center of Studies and Research, Ministry of Health, Oman
Supervisor: Lisa Schwartz
Dissertation: Health and Prescription Drug Coverage Inequity: Towards Inclusive Migration and Health Policy
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow in Global Health, McMaster University
Supervisor: Christopher Longo
Dissertation: Three Essays on the Ethics and Effects of Public Policy on the Price-Accessibility of Pharmaceuticals
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow; The Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
Supervisor: John Lavis
Dissertation: Strategies to Facilitate Evidence-Informed and Participatory Health Policymaking in Ethiopia
Supervisor: John Lavis
Dissertation: Harnessing evidence and values in health policy implementation
Current Position: Public Health Advisor, Canadian Red Cross, Ottawa, ON.
Supervisor: Jim Dunn
Dissertation: Assessing Impacts of Socially-Mixed Public Housing Revitalization on Children and Families
Current Position: Performance Analyst, Canada Health Infoway
Supervisor: John Lavis
Dissertation: How do systems achieve their goals? The role of implementation in mental health systems improvement
Current Position: Vice President, Partnerships and Chief Strategy Officer, Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care
Supervisor: Christopher Longo
Dissertation: The burden of cancer: individual and societal outcomes
Supervisor: John Lavis
Dissertation: Supporting the use of research evidence to inform decision-making in crisis zones
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, at the School of Global Health, York University
Supervisor: Michel Grignon
Dissertation: Measuring international health inequalities using household survey data
Current Positions: Associate Director, Global Strategy Lab (Ontario, CAN); Assistant Professor of Social Epidemiology, York University (Ontario, CAN).
Supervisor: Lydia Kapiriri
Dissertation: Public and vulnerable populations' participation in health-system priority setting
Current Position: Mitacs Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Technical Advisor with the Canadian Red Cross
Supervisor: Michel Grignon
Dissertation:Dissertation: Universal Health Coverage and Access to HIV Treatment and Care in the Eastern Caribbean
Supervisor: Michael Wilson
Dissertation: Understanding the role of values in Latin American health systems
Current position: Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Antioquia (Columbia)
Neil Barr
Supervisor: Glen Randall
Dissertation: Physician communication via information and communication technology: Understanding its role in health system performance
Current position: Assistant Professor in the Health Policy and Management area at the DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University (Canada)
Avram Denburg
Supervisor: Julia Abelson
Dissertation: The politics of child health technologies: Social values and public policy on drug funding for children in Canada
Current position: Staff Oncologist and Clinical Scientist, Haematology/Oncology and Scientist-Track Investigator, Child Health Evaluative
Sciences at the Hospital for Sick Children (Canada) & Assistant Professor, Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto
Christina Hackett
Supervisor: Gillian Mulvale
Dissertation: The health of Indigenous peoples living in Canada: Understanding distal, intermediate and proximal determinants of health
Current position: Senior Research Associate at the Social Research and Demonstration Corporation (Canada)
Francesca Brundisini
Supervisor: Mita Giacomini
Dissertation: The social construction of telemedicine in Ontario: A historical narrative analysis
Supervisors: Jerry Hurley and Arthur Sweetman
Dissertation: Essays on subsidized health insurance and health-related quality of life
Current position: Economist at The World Bank in Washington, DC (United States)
Supervisor: Jeremiah Hurley
Dissertation: On the measurement and interpretation of health inequality, income inequality and income-related health inequality
Supervisor: Nancy Doubleday
Dissertation: Social, cultural and ecological systems' influence on community health and wellbeing
Current position: Post-doctoral fellow, working with Nancy Doubleday and Brent McKnight on the Boreal Water Futures project
Supervisor: Julia Abelson
Dissertation: Making sense of social media for public health decision-makers - the case of childhood immunization in Ontario
Current Position: CIHR Health Systems Impact Fellow at Public Health Ontario (Canada)
Cristina Mattison
Supervisor: John Lavis
Dissertation: The Roles of Midwives in Health Systems
Current position: Post-doctoral fellow, McMaster Midwifery Research Centre (Canada)
Supervisor: Lisa Schwartz
Dissertation: "Ethics is a part of that as well": Navigating the Landscape of Humanitarian Healthcare Policy
Current position: Liaison Officer - Federal with the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health(CADTH)
Supervisor: Glen Randall
Dissertation: Developing a better understanding of resource withdrawal from medical services through examination of its characteristics, government policies, and an initiative
Current position: Health Outcome Scientist, Nova Scotia Health Research, Innovation & Discovery
Elizabeth Alvarez
Supervisor: John Lavis
Dissertation: Developing and evaluating the use of a workbook for contextualizing health systems guidance
Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University (Canada)
Sandra Milicic
Supervisor: Phil DeCicca
Dissertation: Economic conditions, health and health behaviours of Canadians
Current position: Analyst, Health Reports, Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) (Canada)
Mustafa Ornek
Supervisors: Paul Contoyannis and Arthur Sweetman
Dissertation: The Body Mass Index (BMI): Measurement, physician costs and distributional decomposition
Current position: Policy Analyst, Health Canada
Denis Ako-Arrey
Supervisor: Melissa Brouwers
Dissertation: Designing a knowledge translation tool for the development, appraisal and reporting of health systems guidance
Current position: Director of Operations/Project Manager, Cameroon Population Based HIV Impact Assessment Project, ICAP Columbia University (Cameroon)
Supervisor: John Lavis
Dissertation: Clearinghouses Targeted At Improving Use Of Research Evidence In Policymaking: Rationale, User Testing And Usage
Leslie Malloy-Weir
Supervisor: Lisa Schwartz
Dissertation: Definitions of health literacy and numeracy and their relevance for patient-physician communication and treatment decision making in the medical encounter
Current position: Post-doctoral fellow, University of Saskatchewan (Canada)
Supervisor: Jeremiah Hurley
Dissertation: Three essays in welfare and health economics: social choice, health capital and health expenditure
Current position: Assistant professor of health policy and economics at the University of Oklahoma School of Public Health (U.S.A.)
Jessica Shearer
Supervisor: John Lavis
Dissertation: Social networks, research evidence and innovation in health policymaking in Burkina Faso
Current position: Senior Monitoring & Evaluation Officer at PATH and Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington (U.S.A.)
Yaw Owusu
Supervisor: Michel Grignon
Dissertation: International migration and occupational integration of skilled health professionals
Supervisor: John Lavis
Dissertation: Supporting the use of research evidence in the Colombian health system
Current position: Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Antioquia (Columbia)
Supervisor: John Lavis
Dissertation: Evidence briefs as a mechanism for knowledge transfer and exchange: Assessing views about, experiences with, and influences of policy-relevant research influences on low-and middle-income countries
Current position: Assistant professor at McMaster University, Managing Director at the McMaster Health Forum (Canada)
Supervisor: Julia Abelson
Dissertation: The participation of marginalized populations in health services planning and decision making
Current position: Assistant Professor with the School of Public Health at the University of Alberta (Canada)
Kathy Li
Supervisor: Julia Abelson
Dissertation: Public involvement use in health-policy decision-making
Current position: Senior Policy Advisor at the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care in Toronto (Canada)
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