Current Global Health PhD Students
| Name | Contact | Research Interest | Topic | Methods |
| Erika Campbell | campbe10@mcmaster.ca | Health policy, systems, and services; Sexual and Reproductive Health; Genocide; Forced Sterilization; Evacuation for Birth of Indigenous Peoples in Canada | Anti-Oppressive Maternity Care in Ontario: Mapping Evacuation Birth Policy and examining the provision of care for First Nations Peoples birthing outside of their communities | Qualitative Research- Focused Ethnography; Methods: Interview, Survey, and Documentary Data |
| Diana Carolina Chaparro Buitrago | chaparrd@mcmaster.ca | Adolescents sexual and reproductive health, policy analysis | Rethinking the ‘problem‘ of adolescent pregnancy, parenthood, and reproductive health practices in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala | Critical Discourse Analysis using various qualitative research methods such as focus group discussions and individual semi-structured interviews |
| Hanna Chidwick (Graduated 2023) | chidwihw@mcmaster.ca | Imagined futures for global health, adolescent sexual and reproductive health, knowledge justice, community driven research approaches, reflexivity | An imagined future for global health research, policy, and practice: Reality or rhetoric? A study using the example of adolescent sexual and reproductive health in Eastern Sub-Saharan Africa | Qualitative methods, policy analysis, community engagement |
| Mercy Lilian Gichuki | gichukim@mcmaster.ca | Racialized and newcomer women’s health, particularly with intimate partner violence, HIV and Sexual Reproductive Health | Afrocentric praxis: New insight into healthcare and social service responses to intimate partner violence among African, Caribbean, and Black women in Ontario, Canada | Qualitative research, Feminist methodologies, Afrocentric methodologies, Community-based participatory, Critical Race Theory |
| Patricia Ogba | ogbap@mcmaster.ca | Public/population health, malaria in pregnancy, and the uptake of preventive treatments | Community-level contextual factors in Nigeria influencing the uptake of preventive treatments with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine for malaria control in pregnancy | Exploratory descriptive qualitative study |
| David Oldenburger | oldenbd@mcmaster.ca | Understanding the experiences of personnel working in disasters and learning from these to better plan for disasters and prepare future responders | Descriptive Exploratory Study of Personnel Deployed into Long-Term Care During the Pandemic | Document analysis, Qualitative (interviews, questionnaires) |
| Gregory Toffner | toffneg@mcmaster.ca | Arctic health services delivery; task shifting; health services delivery models; health policy development analysis; Indigenous health services; health systems; global health | Health Services Task Shifting in Canada’s High Arctic, a Mixed Methods Study: Implementing a task shifting model, community based diagnostic x-ray training program in 25 remote Indigenous communities in Nunavut, Canada | Mixed methods explanatory sequential design |
| Zoha Salam (Graduated 2024) | zohas@mcmaster.ca | Canadian mental health and immigration policies shaping disparities in service usage | The Influence of Sociodemographic Factors on Mental Health Service Usage Among Racialized Immigrants in Canada | Mixed methods |
| Omolola Alade | aladeo1@mcmaster.ca | Domestic Violence, Global Oral Health, Health Inequities, Adolescent Health, Multi-Methods Research Approach | “Double Wahala”- Domestic Violence Management in Resource Constrained Health Care Settings | Multi-methods approach- A systematic review, a secondary analysis of a dataset and a qualitative study |
| Naharin Sultana Anni | annin@mcmaster.ca | Infectious diseases; HPV; COVID-19; Epidemiology; Cardio-vascular diseases; Occupational diseases | Knowledge, attitudes, and practices towards Human Papilloma Virus and uptake of HPV vaccine among men in high income and low-middle income countries | Convergent parallel mixed-methods design |
| Aisha Barkhad | barkhaa@mcmaster.ca | Effect of climate change and social factors on the transmission, risk, and burden of vector-borne infectious diseases | Ecological, biological, and social determinants of dengue virus epidemiology in Latin America and the Caribbean | Qualitative; quantitative; systematic reviews |
| Shania Bhopa | bhopas@mcmaster.ca | Community based participatory research, child health, knowledge translation | Promoting healthy active living amongst children in low-income settings | Participatory, co-design, qualitative |
| Lulwama Kuto Mulalu | mulalul@mcmaster.ca | Decolonial knowledge production, problem framing, forms of historic erasure and investigating how epistemic violence and continued social amnesia in public consciousness relates to the perpetuation of grievous injustices on the African continent, disproportionate burden of climate change on the African continent | State of climate crisis in Africa and the unequal impacts: revisionist history, social amnesia and the politics of memory in the fragmented “post” colonial era | Critical discourse analysis, media ethnography, health policy analysis, critical interpretive synthesis of literature, stakeholder dialogue |
| Mehnaz Munir | munirm12@mcmaster.ca | Teaching and learning in global health; interdisciplinary topics in global health; health services, community-based research in Chronic Non-communicable disease, nutrition, obesity, musculoskeletal disorders, and infectious diseases | The effects of higher exposure to air pollution (e.g., ozone, PM-2.5, NO-2, and fine particulate matter) on body fat composition, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases | Systematic review, Cohort study, Cross-sectional study |
| Maya Stevens-Uninsky | stevem28@mcmaster.ca | Decolonizing sexual and reproductive health research and programming; development and implementation of equitable, accessible, and relevant healthcare services and programming in Africa; digital health | Exploration of existing characteristics of decolonized research, defining and implementing community-owned research through a sexual health case study in Cape Town, South Africa | Qualitative, participatory action research, Indigenous methodologies, community-based participatory research, ethnography |
| Aoife Cummins | cummia2@mcmaster.ca | Industry, innovation, corporate social responsibility | Stakeholder Perspectives on Social Enterprises | Stakeholder Analysis |
| David Hart | hartd9@mcmaster.ca | Childhood obesity, Health Systems, Occupational Health, Health Promotion | Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children living with obesity | Quantitative research methods |
| Fatima M.A. Homid | homidf@mcmaster.ca | Research Methodologies, data analysis on women’s health | KAP study on immigrant and refugee women’s health and homelessness | Practical study |
| Amal Jawad | Jawada4@mcmaster.ca | International law, TRIPS Agreement, TRIPS-plus, Power of pharmaceutical companies, Developing countries, and Access to affordable medicine | The Patentability of Pharmaceuticals: Identifying Duties of Big Pharma Organizations Regarding the Right to Health | The Hermeneutic method |
| Rhea Mukerjee | mukerjer@mcmaster.ca | Environmental justice, global health, climate change | Impact of environmental pollution on the health of communities living near mining sites in Canada: An economic perspective | Qualitative and mixed research methods |
| Fazle Rabbi | rabbif@mcmaster.ca | Methodological issues in Global Health Research; Non-communicable disease epidemiology; Emerging and re-emerging infectious disease epidemiology; Dietary acculturation for the immigrants in high-income countries and health consequences. | Methodological issues related to dietary measurement in Nutritional Epidemiology: a global health perspective | Observational methodologies, Randomized controlled trials, Systematic review, Meta-analysis, Scoping review |
| Natasha Ross | rossn1@mcmaster.ca | Maternal and neonatal health, health equity | Exploring access to prenatal services for immigrant women in Riverdale | Experience Based Co-Design |
| Marwa Akola | akolam@mcmaster.ca | Factors affecting health, food and nutrition security status of vulnerable populations/communities, malnutrition, food system, climate change, environment, community-based research and clinical trials, policy analysis and global health | Climate change and health from the lens of food and nutrition security: a qualitative study exploring integration of policies | Qualitative Research: Scoping Review, Systematic Review, Policy Analysis, Community Engagement |
| Claire Ramlogan-Salanga | ramlogac@mcmaster.ca | Expanding midwifery to improve sexual and reproductive healthcare access | Develop an evidence-based framework to guide the successful implementation of the expansion of midwifery roles in relation to sexual and reproductive healthcare in Canadian health systems | Qualitative Research Methods: Critical interpretive synthesis |
| Carlos A. Rosas-Jiménez | rosasjic@mcmaster.ca | Child health; sexual abuse of children; discrimination of vulnerable people, indigenous peoples, First Nations, and refugees; health behaviour | To promote the health of indigenous peoples through an understanding of their traditional beliefs and concepts of health | Systematic review; ethnography; qualitative research methods, interview, survey, focus groups |
| Bakhtawar Shalwani | shalwanb@mcmaster.ca | Maternal and child health, primary health care, midwifery, health systems research | Expanding midwifery to improve sexual and reproductive healthcare access | Critical interpretive synthesis and qualitative research methods |
| Susana Ku Carbonell |
kucarbos@mcmaster.ca |
Reproductive justice, midwifery and crises, international midwifery, systemic issues in birth and reproductive care.
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Multiple case study of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in midwifery services in Lima Metropolitana, Lima, Peru and Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada. | Multiple Case study, qualitative research |