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	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	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