McMaster University will be starting a new master of science in psychotherapy program in September 2020.

The first type of influenza virus we are exposed to in early childhood dictates our ability to fight the flu for the rest of our lives.

Children who spend time in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at birth have a higher risk of mental health issues later, regardless of their birth weight, say McMaster University researchers.

The controversy about whether eggs are good or bad for your heart health may be solved, and about one a day is fine.

A McMaster University study led by Kayla Dadgar, an MD alumna, and John Neary, associate professor of medicine, shows scurvy is still found in Canada.

A team of experts in McMaster University’s Faculty of Heath Sciences has published a comprehensive ebook on a common injury that can require treatment by a wide scope of health professionals.

Three men with strong ties to the Faculty of Health Sciences have been named to the Order of Canada.

A common cardiac blood test done before surgery can predict who will experience adverse outcomes after most types of surgery, says an international study led by Hamilton researchers. Globally, of the 200 million adults who undergo major surgery, 18 percent will experience serious cardiac and vascular complications including death within 30 days following their intervention, such as hip and knee replacements, bowel resections and abdominal aortic aneurysm repair.

McMaster University researchers have developed a tool to share with the international health sciences community which can help determine how the virus that causes COVID-19 is spreading and whether it is evolving. Simply put, the tool is a set of molecular ‘fishing hooks’ to isolate the virus, SARS-CoV-2, from biological samples.

The conference, Coming Together to Co-create Health Equity, was organized by the McMaster Indigenous Health Movement student group, the Faculty of Health Sciences and the McMaster Indigenous Research Institute.

McMaster University researchers have identified an antibacterial compound made by cannabis plants that may serve as a lead for new drug development.

New research from McMaster University and McMaster Children’s Hospital shows that two out of three young mothers have at least one mental health problem.

Nominations are now open for the 2020 inductees to the Community of Distinction of the Faculty of Health Sciences. This is the Faculty of Health Sciences' highest honour, in tribute to those who have brought worldwide renown to McMaster University.

A new group of antibiotics with a unique approach to attacking bacteria has been discovered, making it a promising clinical candidate in the fight against antimicrobial resistance.

The Ontario government today announced its decision to give colleges the option to deliver standalone nursing degree programs.

This past week was one of generosity and creativity at the Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) as its faculty, staff and students adjusted to the changes required to respond to COVID-19. At the same time the Faculty moved its work to more virtual setting working from home and some research projects were suspended, community responses and new COVID-19 research projects were developed. “We've adjusted to the initial phase of this crisis, and we are all immersed in new ways of advancing the Faculty's operations,” said Paul O’Byrne, dean and vice-president of the Faculty.

“We’re renowned for innovation and interdisciplinary collaboration. This is a fine example of how our creativity and partnerships can quickly come up with solutions,” said Paul O’Byrne, dean and vice-president, Faculty of Health Sciences.

Danielle Brewer-Deluce has won the 2020 Early-Career Anatomist Publication Award for Anatomical Sciences Education.

Two senior researchers of McMaster University’s Faculty of Health Sciences have received a combined $1.8 million in funding to support new research projects to help combat COVID-19.

Never before have so many changes been made in one week to the education, research, clinical and administration operations of the Faculty of Health Sciences and the university. Everyone has been impacted by the need to respond to the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic has required many changes at the Faculty of Health Sciences. The university is still open, but strategies to mitigate the situation have impacted the education, research, clinical service and administration of the Faculty. In-person classes and exams were cancelled, and all clinical placements suspended. Residents and clinical fellows, however, are working within the health system. Research continues, although there are arrangements being made for different projects to ensure social distance is maintained.

An independent investigative as well as an international offender database are needed to tackle allegations of abuse in elite youth sport properly, urges a McMaster University expert, in an editorial published online in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

These are unsettling times. The spread of COVID-19 around the world and its arrival in our own region has brought McMaster and all other organizations to uncharted territory. As of today, the risk of catching the virus continues to remain low.

A McMaster researcher has played a critical role on a small team that has successfully isolated and grown copies of the virus responsible for COVID-19, enabling urgent Canadian research into how it behaves and how it might be controlled.

Bacteria may be involved in the development of Type 2 diabetes, according to a study published today in Nature Metabolism by researchers from McMaster University, Université Laval and the Québec Heart and Lung Institute.

An international team of physicians, pharmacists, medical researchers and patient partners has developed a clinical guideline for the treatment of patients with COVID-19.

The Continuing Professional Development (CPD) office has been created within the Faculty of Health Sciences to further advance health sciences and medical education as well as professional development opportunities for faculty members and health-care professionals.

A new resource including the latest on the pandemic has been created to help McMaster University faculty and staff members feel more prepared to address student mental health issues.

McMaster University and the Faculty of Health Sciences are renowned for their leading role in the development of evidence-based medicine, so it’s not surprising that faculty members and students have dedicated themselves to sharing COVID-19 evidence in easy-to-access ways.

All families are affected by COVID-19, but this period is especially challenging for those whose children have a serious illness. To help support families affected by childhood diabetes, a team from McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences’ McMaster Children’s Hospital (MCH) has launched covid19childhooddiabetes.com.

When Mac grad Katarina Poletto started Dolled Up Desserts three years ago, her goal for the gluten-free and vegan bakery was to create an inclusive environment for people with food intolerances.

The COVID-19 study is being conducted by the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA), a national research platform on health and aging involving more than 50,000 participants across 10 provinces.

Over the past two months, we’ve seen significant changes in our lives from the rapidly-evolving global pandemic, COVID-19, both from a personal and communal standpoint.

A study co-led by McMaster’s Margaret McKinnon and Western’s Ruth Lanius on a new approach to treating public safety personnel (PSP) with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is receiving close to $1 million in funding.

Dawn Bowdish and Michael Surette have received research funding to boost their work to identify COVID-19 infection rates and to understand why some people are more susceptible to the virus.

A collaboration between McMaster’s Faculties of Engineering and Faculty of Health Sciences, with the guidance of local physicians, is allowing for the design and production of much-needed face shields for Hamilton health-care workers. The duo behind the initiative is Alec Fernback, an Engineering 1 student, and his dad, Mike Noseworthy, a professor in electrical and computer engineering and co-director of the McMaster School of Biomedical Engineering.

Health sciences and engineering researchers at McMaster University have been racing to assist Woodbridge Foam Corporation in getting a new made-in-Canada mask designed, tested and certified, as supplies of existing medical masks become less certain.

An international team of experts, led by McMaster University associate professor Harsha Shanthanna, recognized a knowledge gap around caring for chronic pain patients during the COVID-19 pandemic, and moved quickly to create a set of clinical practice recommendations.

The past week saw major research projects related to the COVID-19 pandemic move forward, with the announcement of a major gift by Hamilton philanthropists Charles and Margaret Juravinski to support new initiatives.

Infectious disease researcher Yingfu Li and his research team raised money and bought N95 masks and goggles for Chinese hospitals during the rise of the COVID-19. More than 20 scientists in China who previously worked with Li or his team members have raised money to buy the same kind of protective gear for Hamilton health-care workers.

The N95 respirator masks should be preserved for health-care workers involved in inserting breathing tubes for patients with COVID-19. More common medical masks are fine for all other COVID-19 treatment, says preliminary research from McMaster University.

We want everyone to be free from this terrible virus, and to be able to live and move about without fear of spreading or picking it up. We’d like to see this happen during what remains of our lifetimes, and we are excited to have the chance to help.

Thanks to the Juravinski Research Institute and the gift from Charles and Margaret Juravinski, leading experts from Hamilton Health Sciences, McMaster University and St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton have funding to support eight collaborative research projects.

Philanthropists Charles and Margaret Juravinski have made a new gift of $3.3 million to accelerate COVID-19-related and brain health research as part of the newly formed Juravinski Research Institute in Hamilton.

Michelle Kho is among an international group of cardiorespiratory physiotherapy experts that has mobilized quickly to release recommendations on physiotherapy management for COVID-19 for adult patients in acute care hospitals.

An international team including McMaster University researchers has come together to issue guidelines for health-care workers treating intensive care unit (ICU) patients with COVID-19.

The McMaster Optimal Aging Portal (mcmasteroptimalaging.org), a unique online health resource created by McMaster University to support the healthy aging of Canada’s older adult population, is highlighting ways to stay active and engaged while practicing physical distancing during the current COVID-19 pandemic.

Hospital partners of the Faculty of Health Sciences are beginning to implement plans for a gradual resumption of surgical and outpatient clinical services and procedures that were reduced due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Natural health products are used by many people, but almost half of naturopathic patients do not let their primary physician know, says a survey conducted by McMaster University.

Researchers of McMaster University and the University of Toronto have developed a promising immunotherapy treatment for a deadly form of adult brain cancer called glioblastoma.

Health sciences student Natasha Verhoeff organized a free virtual Zumba dance class in mid-May from her family’s Toronto home, and invited participants to donate to the McMaster COVID-19 Research Fund.

McMaster University professor Eric Brown has been awarded a Killam Research Fellowship.

The evidence shows that cloth masks, particularly those with several layers of cotton cloth, block droplet and aerosol contamination of the environment, may reduce transmission of COVID-19.

McMaster University researchers have been awarded funding for five pandemic studies in the first announcement by the Ontario government of COVID-19 Rapid Research Fund projects.

A huge study of more than 160,000 people in 21 countries has found that women are less likely to have cardiovascular disease, and die of it, than men. It didn’t matter if women had, or didn’t have, a previous heart attack or stroke. It also didn't matter where they lived around the world, nor their economic status.

Elliot Grady is rooted in the Niagara Region. He grew up here and he is becoming a medical doctor here. As he prepares to mark his graduation from McMaster University’s Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine Niagara Regional Campus, he says it feels like a dream come true.

Today is the online convocation celebration for McMaster University's School of Nursing. Meet valedictorian Kolina Tavares.

Rory Schafer’s background as a law clerk and social worker has impacted his plans as he accepts his medical degree from McMaster University this week.

Research will be the first portion of the Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) that will ease back into the workplace from the restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although working from home remains the preferred option for research, the ramp up will follow phase one of the research recovery plan from the university’s vice-president research; practical solutions for research workplace arrangements from the Faculty’s vice-dean, research, as well as the plans made by each principal investigator to follow Public Health directives including physical distancing and appropriate personal protective equipment.

Christina Weber is one of the medical students graduating from the Niagara Regional Campus of McMaster University’s Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine this month. As she prepares for her final exam, she is eagerly anticipating staying at McMaster for her rural family medicine residency in its Grimsby stream.

This week, despite numerous obstacles and tragedy, Tyler Pitre is graduating with a medical degree from McMaster University’s Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine. He is continuing at the Waterloo Regional Campus of the medical school for his residency in internal medicine.

Spring convocation ceremonies for McMaster University’s School of Nursing and Faculty of Health Sciences are going ahead in an online format.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today officially launched the Chronic Pain Centre of Excellence for Canadian Veterans during his nationally-televised COVID-19 update.

An international medical resident is ready to come to Hamilton to train at McMaster University and work in area hospitals and needs somewhere to spend their 14-day quarantine. Another resident is already working in high-risk situations at local hospitals and is worried about the risk of returning home to a vulnerable family each day.

Research led by McMaster University's Caressa Tsai and Brian Coombes has resulted in the discovery of a combination punch to treat drug-resistant infections that is showing promise based on testing in mice.

McMaster University research led by Maria Ines Pinto-Sanchez and Elena Verdu has established a connection between inflammatory bowel disease and celiac disease.

The number of recovered patients may be important to the goal of minimizing the pandemic’s infection rate as shelter-in-place orders are lifted. Research led by the Georgia Institute of Technology with McMaster and Princeton universities has found the presumed immunity of those who have recovered from the infection could allow them to safely substitute for susceptible people in certain high-contact occupations such as healthcare.

McMaster University faculty members are taking leadership roles in Canada's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

A McMaster University study has found that media pressure on chiropractors who were advocating against vaccinations led to the removal of vaccine-related information from their websites.

At the Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) everyone is working towards finishing the school and fiscal years and preparing for the summer term, but also putting a focus on planning the possible scenarios for the Faculty’s operations in the fall.

McMaster start-up Empirica Therapeutics has been acquired by Philadelphia-based Century Therapeutics, a leader in curative cell therapies for cancer. Now known as Century Therapeutics Canada, the new subsidiary will be based at McMaster Innovation Park.

McMaster University has garnered $20 million in new funding for 17 COVID-19 research projects from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and their funding partners.

Women who experience menopause before age 40 have a significantly higher risk of depression, according to a new study led by McMaster researchers.

Paul O’Byrne, dean and vice-president of the Faculty of Health Sciences noted that Sunday is National Indigenous People’s Day. “National Indigenous Peoples’ Day this Sunday, June 21, is an annual opportunity to celebrate the unique heritage, cultures and achievements of First Nations, Inuit and Métis people in Canada. As we acknowledge this important day, we are reminded of both what we have achieved within the Faculty of Health Sciences with respect to advancing Indigenous education in health sciences, and the work we have yet to do.

A team of researchers and health-care providers at McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) has launched a major Canadian study to remotely manage patients after surgery. Their joint research centre, Population Health Research Institute (PHRI), is testing virtual care and remote monitoring technology.

The Violence Evidence Guidance Action (VEGA) project led by McMaster University has developed family violence education resources in collaboration with 22 national organizations and with funding from the Public Health Agency of Canada.

McMaster medical students Jun Park and Matt McArthur dodged black bears in Marathon, climbed towering grain silos in Walkerton, offered free hugs in Ottawa and played music in venues including seniors’ homes, street festivals and restaurants.

Researchers of the Faculty of Health Sciences who quickly turned their focus to the need for immediate research on the pandemic, have collected almost $9 million of support for 33 COVID-19 studies.

As the pandemic continues, mental health experts are increasingly worried about the fallout of constant stress and anxiety as we endure prolonged social isolation, financial pressures, stresses of family and general uncertainty.

Updates are being installed following a needs assessment of the Faculty of Health Science’s (FHS) information technology (IT) services. Launched six months ago by Susan Denburg, executive vice dean and associate vice president (academic), the assessment describes the IT needs within the Faculty and how these align with the strategic priorities of the Faculty and the university.

Health-care providers are being provided with new guidance about discussing cannabis use with their young patients, thanks to a group of experts co-led by a McMaster University faculty member.

Long-term care (LTC) residents are at risk of 'over-treatment' and poor quality end-of-life care during times of serious illness, such as a COVID-19 infection, shows new research from two studies by McMaster University and Queen’s University.

The Faculty of Health Sciences is a community of faculty, staff, and learners. Like many we are shocked, saddened and gravely concerned about the anti-Black racism and violence at the hands of police, and the ensuing tragic events, occurring in the United States. We recognize these deaths and events as a part of systemic injustices and inequities that are made more evident with the current pandemic, are also present within Canada and within many institutions, including our own.

A comprehensive review of existing evidence supports physical distancing of two metres or more to prevent person-to-person transmission of COVID-19, says an international team led by McMaster University and St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton.

As provinces across Canada are deciding how to restart schools during the pandemic, a research review has found children are not a major source of transmission of COVID-19. A second review has found strain on families, particularly women with children.

Physiotherapy students are busy doing hands-on learning this month in a boot camp to get their clinical training up to date. The master students are coming on campus to the Institute of Applied Health Sciences to the School of Rehabilitation Science for the learning.

A new McMaster University-based network will bring together researchers and patients to tackle sepsis — a leading cause of death in COVID-19.

Cognitive behavioural therapy delivered electronically to treat people with depression is more effective than face to face, suggests an evidence review led by McMaster University.

Brain cancer in children is always a devastating diagnosis, but McMaster University researchers may have found a way to have the most serious types of pediatric brain cancer respond better to therapies.

Eustace Orleans-Lindsay is on a mission to ensure seasonal agricultural workers receive proper access to health care in Norfolk County. A member of the inaugural graduating class of the Master of Science in Global Health program at McMaster University in 2011, his resolve for his mission has only strengthened during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Two new evidence reviews related to acute musculoskeletal injuries like strains and sprains suggest other forms of treatments are as effective as opioids and have less risk of harms to patients.

A research team led by McMaster University used linked correctional and health administrative data to compare prenatal care indicators for women in Ontario with experience of incarceration and women in the general population during pregnancies between 2005 and 2015.

A McMaster University faculty member has co-written a comprehensive new set of guidelines for doctors to follow when treating patients with obesity, marking a dramatic shift from existing practices. Sean Wharton, one of the two lead authors of the new clinical practice guidelines that Obesity Canada and the Canadian Association of Bariatric Physicians and Surgeons published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, is an adjunct professor of internal medicine in the Faculty of Health Sciences.

Working together, researchers at McMaster University and the University of Waterloo are searching for how the SARS-CoV-2 virus infects the lungs – and they’re challenging what has become an accepted truth about the virus.

Much has been made recently about the new antiviral drug remdesivir for COVID-19 patients, but a McMaster University-led guideline for physicians warns that it would only be used in the most serious cases, and more research is needed.

Even though they were both Mac grads, Arnav Agarwal ‘14 and Rishi Bansal ‘20 hadn’t met – until they both had similar ideas to capture the untold stories of COVID-19 frontline workers.

Researchers at McMaster University and the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) have reported the discovery and diagnosis of an aggressive malignant bone cancer — an osteosarcoma — for the first time ever in a dinosaur.

The McMaster University Department of Family Medicine is launching the David Braley Primary Care Research Collaborative, a research collective focused on advancing and strengthening primary care in Canada and across the globe through proactive research programs relevant to the issues of today.

McMaster University professor emeritus Frank Graham has been recognized for the impact of his scientific work almost five decades ago which is being used for production of several COVID-19 vaccine candidates.

New strategic goals and priorities for the Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) have been launched with approval of its Faculty Executive Council.

Five McMaster University professors, all members of the Faculty of Health Sciences, are joining the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS) as fellows.

It has been a year since the release of the McMaster Textbook of Internal Medicine, and already, it’s been accessed by tens of thousands of people around the world.

McMaster University professor and scientist Salim Yusuf is the 2020 recipient of the prestigious McLaughlin Medal from the Royal Society of Canada.

Two researchers in the Faculty of Health Sciences have been named new Canada Research Chairs, while a third has been renewed.

McMaster will extend this fall’s online delivery of academic programs into the winter term.

Kathy Georgiades, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioural neurosciences and a researcher with the Offord Centre for Child Studies, has received funding from the Province to study the impact of COVID-19 on the mental health and well-being of children and their families.

McMaster HealthLabs, Air Canada and the Greater Toronto Airports Authority today announced that they will partner on a voluntary COVID-19 study of international travellers arriving at Toronto Pearson International Airport.

McMaster has been named one of the top 70 universities in the world, according to an internationally influential ranking encompassing more than 1,500 institutions worldwide.

McMaster is launching The Global Nexus for Pandemics and Biological Threats, to ensure Canada and the world are better able to manage the human and economic devastation of COVID-19 and avert future pandemics.

Newly approved drugs in Canada lack important pediatric drug information in their product monograph, according to an analysis led by McMaster University and McMaster Children’s Hospital.

McMaster University has been awarded $2.5 million by the Government of Canada to support the McMaster HealthLabs Canadian International COVID-19 Surveillance Border Study at Toronto Pearson International Airport.

Hamilton businessman David Braley, whose investment in McMaster University’s Faculty of Health Sciences enabled tremendous growth in research, training and infrastructure, died Oct. 26 in Burlington. He was 79.

The McMaster University community is remembering Michael Gent, professor emeritus in the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact (HEI) and renowned biostatistician, who passed away on October 20, 2020. He was 86.

An international team of researchers led by McMaster University has found that tryptophan, an amino acid present in high amounts in turkey, along with some probiotics, may help them heal and respond better to a gluten-free diet.

In Canada, most expect quality health care available when we need it. But older adults living alone or with mobility issues may have difficulty getting the care and resources they need.

Two researchers of McMaster University’s Faculty of Health Sciences have received a combined $400,000 in funding for research projects related to COVID-19 and mental health.

Lianna Genovese, a Health Venture Program (HVP) graduate, recently won the 2020 People’s Choice Award at the Lions Lair pitch competition. The $2,500 prize was one of many that Lianna, and her company ImaginAble Solutions, has won recently.

The psychiatrist who pioneered family therapy and was the first chair of the Department of Psychiatry of the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine died Oct. 7. Nathan Epstein was 96.

Ontario’s Minister of Colleges and Universities Ross Romano has announced that the province is investing $1 million to create a nationally accessible library of compounds that will accelerate the work of McMaster’s Global Nexus for Pandemics and Biological Threats.

Through the Team Approach to Polypharmacy Evaluation and Reduction Program (TAPER), researchers at McMaster University’s Department of Family Medicine are studying how to reduce the number of unnecessary medications a patient takes.

The CP@clinic is an innovative chronic disease prevention and health promotion program developed by a team of researchers at McMaster University’s Department of Family Medicine.

Each year, over 40,000 people are incarcerated in Ontario’s jails and prisons– many with significant medical and psychiatric conditions like mental illness, hepatitis C infection, and addictions.

A $4-million investment from Canada's COVID-19 Immunity Task Force will launch a national study to investigate the burden of SARS-CoV-2 infection among aging Canadians, a population that has been shown to be at greatest risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 disease.

The Indigenous Teaching Through Art program was created by McMaster University’s Department of Family Medicine in collaboration with local Indigenous colleagues to fill a knowledge gap about the history of Indigenous people in Canada.

The Faculty of Health Sciences is fully committed to McMaster University’s approach to ensure that the scholarship and scholarly work of the university support a commitment to inclusive excellence and create new opportunities to significantly increase the number of Black faculty members participating across all areas of the university.

Researchers at McMaster University and the Montreal Clinical Research Institute think they’ve found a fountain of youth — and it’s unique to a few French Canadian families.

A study of international air travellers arriving in Toronto has released an interim report, showing encouraging results from airport-based COVID-19 testing followed by home-based collection during quarantine and offering insights that could help shape policy surrounding COVID-19 safety.

Researchers at McMaster University are studying the saliva-based testing procedures that would enable routine testing of asymptomatic individuals on a large scale.

An international study of people with no previous heart disease or stroke, but at intermediate risk, found the polypill alone may reduce the risk of heart attack, stroke, revascularization procedures (such as angioplasty or heart surgery) or other cardiovascular incidents by about 20 per cent, and the combination of the polypill and aspirin may reduce those cardiovascular events by up to 40 per cent.

A team of McMaster researchers has been awarded $1.5M from the federal government to further investigate COVID-19.

Indigenous knowledges, practices and community strengths are helping protect Indigenous families and communities around the world from COVID-19.

Charles and Margaret Juravinski have turned the tables on the typical birthday tradition of receiving gifts. Instead, Margaret and Charles, who turned 91 on Nov. 1, chose to give a gift – a new investment of $3 million to support health research through the Juravinski Research Institute, a partnership between Hamilton Health Sciences, McMaster University and St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton.

McMaster University alumnus Walter Schroeder and his family have given $10 million to the university to fast-track treatment and prevention research for the search to cure allergies.

Bernice Downey, who has led the Faculty of Health Sciences’ Indigenous Health Initiative since 2017, has been appointed as the Faculty’s first associate dean, Indigenous Health.

Research from McMaster University shows the Ontario retirement homes impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic are those with more residents, those connected to a nursing home, owned by large corporations, or offering many on-site services.

In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, two human factors are battling it out: Awareness of the virus’ severe consequences and fatigue from nine months of pandemic precautions, suggests a new study.

For the fourth consecutive year, McMaster has been named Canada’s most research-intensive university in the annual ranking of the country’s Top 50 Research Universities.

A new project to implement and scale up the long-term care palliative toolkit during COVID-19 has been taken on by School of Nursing professor Sharon Kaasalainen with new funds from the Canadian Institutes of Health Sciences (CIHR).

Sixteen Faculty of Health Sciences researchers are among 18 McMaster University affiliated scientists who have been recognized as among the top one per cent of scientists in the world according to their citations.

McMaster University has been ranked 11th in the world for clinical, pre-clinical and health subjects by the Times Higher Education World University rankings for 2021.