The following is a list of McMaster faculty who have been approved by the Faculty of Health Science Graduate Studies to supervise and/or sit on the committee of a Ph.D. Global Health candidate. While those approved for a supervisory role may also take up a role as a committee member, those approved only for committee membership may not act as supervisors (see second list below). Should you wish to work with a faculty member that is not on the list below, please contact the program academic advisor (ghadvising@mcmaster.ca). Any questions pertaining to the research interests listed below should be sent directly to the faculty member. If you have any further questions, please contact the academic advisor.
For details on indicating potential supervisors in the Online Application, see How To Apply.
Global Health Ph.D. Supervisors
| Faculty | Department | Contact | Research Interests | Methodologies | GH Research Interests |
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| Alvarez, Elizabeth | Associate Professor, HEI | alvare@mcmaster.ca | Role of context in evidence informed decision making, a range of public health topics, sustainable health behaviour change across the lifespan, program and policy evaluation, and multidisciplinary care. | Policy analysis and qualitative and mixed methods for applied knowledge translation | Maternal and newborn health, health services, health policy, infectious diseases, mental health |
| Anand, Sonia | Professor, Medicine | anands@mcmaster.ca | Environmental and genetic determinants of vascular disease in populations of varying ancestral origin; women and cardiovascular disease. |
Cardiovascular health: Birth cohorts; ‘OMICS’; Women’s health: Randomized controlled trials | Indigenous health; Ethnic diversity in cardiovascular disease |
| Baba, Vishwanath | Professor, Human Resources & Management | baba@mcmaster.ca |
Management theory; Evidence-based management;Comparative management; Organizational behaviour; Mental Health in the workplace |
Primarily quantitative but also supervise qualitative studies | Mental health of nurses in the workplace – studied nurses’ organizational behavior in Argentina, Canada, the Caribbean, China, India, and Turkey |
| Bangdiwala, Shrikant | Professor, HEI | bangdiws@ mcmaster.ca | Observer agreement, global health, injury statistics, statistical graphics | Nonparametric methods, methodology for clinical trials, methodology for clinical epidemiology, meta regression | |
| Bannerman, Sara | Associate Professor, Communication Studies & Media Arts | banners@mcmaster.ca | Communication policy and law; copyright; privacy; international communication policy; internet law and policy; media law and regulation; platform regulation | Historical, legal and policy research | Global intellectual property and the history of the Canadian and international intellectual property, particularly as these relate to knowledge and access to medicine. |
| Baumann, Andrea | Professor, Nursing | baumanna@mcmaster.ca | Effect of policy on the employment integration of internationally trained healthcare professionals; Emerging trends in infectious disease and potential outcomes for health human resources; and the influence of transdisciplinary collaboration on health education. |
Meta-analysis; Evidence- based practice; Qualitative; Quantitative | Immigration & employment integration; Infectious disease; Global transdisciplinary collaboration |
| Bhandari, Mohit | Professor, Surgery | bhandam@mcmasmter.ca | Research to improve the lives of persons with musculoskeletal trauma worldwide, with special interest in intimate partner violence (female abuse). |
Clinical trials; Meta-analysis; Study methodology; Evidence- based practice; Musculoskeletal trauma | Orthopedic surgery; Injury |
| Biruk, Cal |
Associate Professor, Anthropology |
Critical global health studies; medical anthropology; Africa; AIDS; science and technology studies; critical humanitarian studies; queer studies |
Ethnography; discourse analysis |
Social lives of quantitative health data; performance-based funding & financialized global health on local organizations and agendas amid the ‘end of AIDS;’ Politics of knowledge production in global health research worlds; Colonial health/tropical medicine in southern Africa; Making of ‘population’ as a knowledge object; Key populations in Malawi; Older adults’ engagement with data and data technologies in the GTA. |
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| Carranza, Mirna | Professor, Social Work | carranz@mcmaster.ca | Immigrant and refugee families and their process of acculturation as family units; issues of grief, ambiguous losses, war and torture, identity processes, transnational relationships and their impact on parenting practices; successful settlement processes and mental health | Qualitative research; Narrative inquiry; Critical grounded theory; Phenomenology; Feminist methodologies; Community-based participatory; Art-based; Indigenous methodologies | Social justice issues, particularly on forced migration, gender violence, children’s and women’s rights in Central America |
| Cook, Deborah | Professor, Medicine | debcook@mcmaster.ca | Risk factors for serious illness; prevention of ICU- acquired complications; life support technology; and end- of-life decisions for critically ill patients. |
Multicenter randomized trials, minimizing bias in systematic reviews, and incorporation of diverse kinds of evidence into practice guidelines and clinical recommendations. |
Critical care; Randomized controlled trials |
| Crowther, Mark | Professor, Pathology & Molecular Medicine | crowthrm@mcmaster.ca | Exploring ways of improving the way that we use our current anticoagulant drugs, including exploring established and novel interventions to mitigate bleeding and anticoagulant drugs in high-risk patient populations. |
Developing systematic reviews of key questions in hematology and thrombosis and basing guidelines on those reviews. |
Capacity building in medical education by supporting learners from such environments to come to Canada and to take the ability to teach back to their home countries |
| Darling, Elizabeth | Associate Professor, Midwifery | darlinek@mcmaster.ca | Midwifery services; health disparities; access to care; midwifery scope of practice; health care service implementation; health policy; perinatal health surveillance/epidemiology. |
Mixed methods; large database cohort studies using administrative health data; perinatal health surveillance; perinatal epidemiology |
Midwifery services; access to sexual and reproductive health care; health equity |
| DiLiberto, Deborah | Associate Professor & Director, Global Health Graduate Program | diliberd@mcmaster.ca |
Complex interventions and health service delivery in Africa and other low-resource contexts. |
Mixed methods; qualitative; quantitative; intersections of medical anthropology, clinical trials and medical statistics |
Interdisciplinary global health research competencies; social science perspectives on malaria; adolescent sexual & reproductive health & rights |
| D’Souza, Rohan | Associate Professor, HEI / Obstetrics & Gynecology | dsouzr20@ mcmaster.ca | Medical disorders in pregnancy; Severe maternal morbidity and pregnancyrelated mortality; Intrapartum care: labour induction, instrumental vaginal birth | Systematic reviews and meta-analyses; Mixed methods research; Prediction models; Outcomes research and incorporation of patient preferences into obstetric decision making | Obstetric survey systems to reduce pregnancy-related mortality and morbidity in low and middle-income countries; Randomized controlled trials of interventions especially in relation to alternate models of pregnancy care |
| de Souza, Russell | Associate Professor, HEI | desouzrj@mcmaster.ca | Nutrition and cardiovascular disease; methodological approaches to randomized controlled trials and meta- analyses; nutrition and early-life risk factors for chronic disease |
Randomized controlled trials and meta-analyses | Aboriginal communities |
| Dushoff, Jonathan | Professor, Biology | dushoff@mcmaster.ca | Infectious disease and mathematical modelling; forecasting in infectious disease. | Infectious disease dynamics; statistical philosophy; computational statistics | Infectious diseases, Water sanitation and hygiene, female circumcision |
| Farrokhyar, Forough | Professor. Surgery | farrokh@mcmaster.ca | Design of randomized controlled Trials in general and Surgical trials in particular; Methodological Challenges of NonPharmaceutical Trials; Design of Registries; Analysis of Observational Studies; Critical Appraisal & Evidence-based Practice in Surgery; Analysis of Observational Studies | Randomized controlled trials; Cohort Studies: Case-control studies; Prognostic Studeis; Systematic reviews; Meta-analysis; Statistical; Modelling of large Databases; Diagnostic Accuracy Studies | Children Health; Incidence and Prevalence of Infectious and Noninfectious Disease. Population-based; Studies; Inflammatory Bowel Diseases; Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders; Studies of Vitamin and other Nutrient Deficiencies |
| Freeman, Bonnie | Associate Professor, Social Work | freemanb@mcmaster.ca | Importance of Indigenous cultural knowledge and epistemologies to the wellbeing of the Haudenosaunee and other Indigenous peoples; Indigenous children and youth; Culture-based activism; and Two-Row Partnerships (alliance building between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples) | Indigenous methodologies and community-based participatory research methodologies, such as visiting, storytelling and journeying, also auto-ethnography | Global health of Indigenous people particulaly with health and well-being of Indigenous youth and women |
| Georgiades, Kathy |
Associate Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences | georgik@mcmaster.ca | |||
| Gerstein, Hertzel | Professor, Medicine | gerstein@mcmaster.ca | The prevention and therapy of diabetes and its many consequences; b) diabetes remission; and c) the link between dysglycemia and vasculopenia, cardiovascular disease, cognitive impairment and other disorders. |
Mixed methods | Health, diabetes |
| Holbrook, Anne | Professor, Medicine | holbrook@mcmaster.ca | Evidence-based therapeutics; drug policy; drug interactions; personalization of drug therapies; medication safety; medication adherence; prescribing competence; informed decision-making; cost-effectiveness of therapies and therapeutic strategies. |
Randomized controlled trials | Included in research interests |
| Honig, Benson | Professor, Human Resources | bhonig@mcmaster.ca | Professional ethics as well as subjects such as ingenuity, nascent entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, organizational theory, migration issues, and entrepreneurship in transition environments. | Quantitative and qualitative research methods, typically more interested in macro-level factors or organizational theory. | Working with refugees and immigrants, also interested in older people establishing an entrepreneurial career. |
| Ibhawoh, Bonny | Professor, History | ibhawoh@mcmaster.ca | Human rights; Human rights and justice ethical issues; Politics and history | Qualitative research; Mixed Methods; Oral historical research; Discourse Analysis | Right to health; United Nations Sustainable Development Goals as they relate to Human Rights; Health disparities; Social determinants of health |
| Joseph, Ameil | Associate Professor, School of Social Work | ameilj@mcmaster.ca | Racism; Coloniality; Mental health; Immigration; Disability; Criminal justice | Critical race theory; MAD studies; Critical disability studies; Postcolonial theory; Critical discourse analysis; Qualitative inquiry | Racism; Coloniality; Mental health; Immigration; Disability; Criminal justice |
| Kapiriri, Lydia | Associate Professor, Health, Aging, & Society | kapirir@mcmaster.ca | Global health; HIV preventative behaviour; priority setting in health care | Mixed methods | Health care; HIV/AIDS; low income countries; health; poverty; health systems |
| Kimber, Melissa | Assistant Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences | kimberms@mcmaster.ca | Epidemiology of violence and mental disorders among children and adolescents; Children’s mental health concerns and their exposure to violence; Development, implementation, and evaluation of preventative interventions. |
Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed method research designs | Childhood exposure to violence across low-, middle-, and high-income countries; Health profession education related to violence and mental disorders among children and adolescents |
| Koff, David | Professor, Radiology | dkoff@mcmaster.ca | Integration of medical images in the enterprise and EMR; AI related projects including MILAP, an image library for research we are building with HHS. |
Mixed methods | International radioprotection campaign under the auspices of the International Society of Radiology, WHO and IAEA; International standards initiatives such as IHE (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise) |
| Kurmi, Om | Associate Professor, Medicine | kurmio@mcmaster.ca | Lifestyles, occupational and environmental determinants of chronic diseases, particularly cardiorespiratory health in both adults and children, particularly in the low- and middle-income countries. |
Quantitative; mixed method; Systematic- review and meta-analysis of observational studies. | Air pollution epidemiology; Non- communicable diseases, Life-styles factors, Multi- morbidity, Maternal and Child Health and Occupational health. |
| Lokker, Cynthia | Assistant Professor, Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact | lokkerc@mcmaster.ca | Mobile health; implementation of digital health interventions; knowledge translation; health informatics; bibliometrics; machine learning/natural language processing of health information; innovation in community-based treatment for eating disorders | Alternate study designs for mobile health applications; codesign of interventions for various users;machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing | Mobile health applications to support health; digital health implementation issues |
| Leong, Daryl | Associate Professor, Cardiology | leongd2@mcmaster.ca | Physical frailty, echocardiography, and cardio-oncology, and multi- morbidity. | Cardiovascular imaging; clinical trials; cohort studies | Evolving patterns of morbidity and cause- specific mortality in global populations |
| Loeb, Mark | Professor, Pathology & Molecular Medicine | loebm@mcmaster.ca | Influenza, COVID-19, herd immunity, vaccinology, clinical trials, respiratory infection, antimicrobial resistance. |
Randomized trials, vaccine efficacy, immune correlates of protection, observational studies | Influenza, respiratory infections, global randomized controlled trials, antibiotic use, dengue |
| Mbuagbaw, Lawrence | Assistant Professor, HEI | mbuagblc@mcmaster.ca | Trial design; mHealth; infectious diseases; HIV; biostatistics; mother and child health; research synthesis; meta-epidemiology. |
Biostatistics and randomized trials; evidence syntheses, randomized trials, mixed- methods studies and qualitative studies, meta- epidemiology |
Infectious diseases, mother and child health, mHealth, health systems strengthening and the intersection of these fields |
| McKnight, Brent | Associate Professors, Strategic Management | mcknigba@mcmaster.ca | |||
| McNiven, Patricia |
Associate Professor, Family Medicine | mcnivenp@mcmaster.ca | Low risk obstetrical/maternity care; Health Care professional’s beliefs and attitudes; Midwifery Education; Assessment of clinical competence; prenatal, intrapartum and postpartum interventions and outcomes; women’s health; Midwifery Care. | RCTs; Survey Methods; Qualitative Research. | Maternal Health: pregnancy, intrapartum, postpartum. Maternity care models and health outcomes; Midwifery, TBAs; Midwifery Education. |
| Mente, Andrew | Associate Professor, HEI | mentea@mcmaster.ca | Nutrition and cardiovascular disease; nutritional biomarkers; role of essential minerals (sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium) and dietary fatty acids in cardiovascular diseases in populations around the world. |
Randomized control trials | Urban-rural epidemiology |
| Moffat, Tina | Associate Professor, Anthropology | moffatcs@mcmaster.ca | Nutrition and food insecurity as it relates to the social, cultural, and physical environment; Child Health & Nutrition; Immigrant health; International health and development; community health and the environment; human ecology and adaptability; environmental health |
Mixed methods | Child health & nutrition |
| Muraca, Giulia |
Assistant Professor, Obstetrics & Gynaecology | muracag@mcmaster.ca | |||
| Newbold, Bruce | Professor, School of Earth, Environment, & Society | newbold@mcmaster.ca | Internal migration in Canada and the United States; Immigration: settlement and adjustment; immigration and health; aging issues: population mobility, transportation, health, disability |
Mixed methods | Immigration and population health, health services, disability |
| Randall, Glen | Professor, Health Policy & Management | randalg@mcmaster.ca | Impact of health care restructuring on health professionals; Privatization of health care services; Business-government relations; and Governance and strategic management in the not-for-profit sector |
Mixed methods and qualitative research (primarily surveys and interviews) | Health systems and health policy |
| Samaan, Constantine | Associate Professor, Pediatrics | samaanc@mcmaster.ca | Childhood diabetes & obesity, pediatric cancer endocrine aftereffects, scoliosis | Knowledge synthesis, systematic reviews and Meta-analyses, clinical epidemiology, cohort studies, cross-sectional studies, trials |
International mentorships (Saudi Arabia); Childhood diabetes & obesity |
| Schwartz, Lisa | Professor, HEI | schwar@mcmaster.ca | Humanitarian health care ethics; global health ethics; the teaching of ethics in health care education; patient advocacy; research ethics; bioethics; privacy and confidentiality |
Mixed methods | Healthcare ethics; Global health ethics |
| Sim, Amanda | Assistant Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences | siml3@mcmaster.ca | Global mental health; refugees and immigrants; trauma and resilience; parenting; family violence; intervention design and evaluation; implementation science; community-engaged research | Mixed methods; community-based participatory research; randomized controlled trials | Current projects include: (1) community-engaged research to co-design and evaluate a culturally responsive mental health intervention for refugee families in Hamilton; and (2) development and evaluation of trauma-informed interventions to reduce harsh parenting and promote mental well-being among migrant and displaced families in Thailand. |
| Sloboda, Deborah | Professor, Biochemistry & Biomedical Sciences | sloboda@mcmaster.ca | Parental nutrient manipulation on maternal pregnancy adaptations, including the microbiome, placental inflammation and offspring reproductive and metabolic function | Policy analysis and qualitative and mixed methods for applied knowledge translationMaternal and newborn health, health services, health policy, | Maternal and newborn health, health services, health policy, infectious diseases, mental health |
| Sprague, Sheila | Associate Professor, Surgery | sprags@mcmaster .ca | Intimate partner violence; fracture care; infection prevention and treatment | Randomized controlled trials; observational studies | International Health |
| Thabane, Lehana | Professor, HEI | thabanl@mcmaster.ca | Health outcomes research; health services research; | Clinical trial methodology in various health research areas; meta-analysis and evidence synthesis methods; Bayesian and non-Bayesian analysis; |
Research methodology and epidemiology |
| Vanstone, Meredith | Associate Professor, Family Medicine | vanstomg@mcmaster.ca | Patient and clinician experiences of socially and ethically complex areas of health care, particularly as related to health policy and health professional education and often focused in reproductive health or end-of life care given their social and ethical complexity | Qualitative research, particularly interpretive methodologies; mixed methods; critical analysis; systematic reviews and syntheses of qualitative and mixed methods research | Comparative policy analysis, syntheses of patient experience across national borders |
| Wahi, Gita | Associate Professor, Pediatrics | wahig@mcmaster.ca | |||
| Waldron, Ingrid | Professor, HOPE Chair in Peace & Health | waldroni@mcmaster.ca | Health disparities in Black, Indigenous, and other racialized communities; Structural determinants of health; Environmental determinants of health | Interpretive narrative methodology; qualitative methods; mixed methods; interviews, focus groups, and surveys | Impacts of environment and climate change on global populations; Social determinants of health; Health disparities |
| Wright, Gerry | Professor, Biochemistry | wrightge@mcmaster.ca | Biochemistry of infectious disease, antibiotic resistance, drug discovery | Mixed methods | Infectious diseases |
| Xing, Zhou | Professor, Medicine | xingz@mcmaster.ca | Mucosal Immunology; Vaccine Immunology; Tuberculosis and COVID-19 Vaccines | Mixed methods | Infectious diseases |