Global Health

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The Global Health graduate program is an innovative, interdisciplinary program designed to prepare students for the diverse global health workforce and further professional and post-graduate education. Forward-thinking, responsive, and proactive, the Global Health program has been recognized for innovative programming and academic excellence. Designed to prepare graduates for careers in a globalized world, the program immerses students in an experiential learning environment that stresses high quality transdisciplinary research and global team work, gained by first-hand experience in international collaboration.

The program offers two degree options:

• the award-winning 12-month M.Sc., and
• the Ph.D. that includes an innovative cotutelle option where students can elect to complete a joint doctoral degree with a partner institution. 

The program brings together faculties of social sciences, health sciences, business and humanities, and links with institutions across multiple continents. Working with an evolving consortium of academic institutions around the world (two private and five public), the McMaster Global Health program shares in the commitment to providing an equitable, inclusive, and high-quality education to create a globally competent workforce.  

In 2015, the MSc program received the Canadian Bureau for International Education (CBIE) Panorama Award for Outstanding International Education (Academic category). In 2016, it was also awarded Distinctive Quality Feature Internationalisation by the independent Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders (NVAO). And, in 2017, the MSc program was ranked 2nd in the accredited Health Sciences category of Keuzegids, an independent consumer guide published annually by the Dutch Higher Education Information Centre.

Together with our growing network of global partners, the Global Health program is working in support of the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Graduates from the Global Health graduate program will be eligible for positions with government agencies, with public and private industry, and with global health and development organizations.

Enquiries: 905-525-9140 Ext. 22045
Fax: 905-522-5493
Email: globhth@mcmaster.ca
Website: http://fhs.mcmaster.ca/globalhealthprogram/

Faculty/Fall 2024

Professors

Sonia Anand MD, PhD (McMaster)
Shrikant Bangdiwala, PhD (N. Carolina), MS (N. Carolina), BS (N. Carolina)
Andrea Baumann, B.Sc.N. (Windsor), M.Sc.N. (Western), Ph.D. (Toronto)
Mohit Bhandari, M.Sc. (McMaster), Ph.D. (Sweden), MD (Toronto), FRCSC
Brian Cameron, MD (Queens)
Jean Chamberlain-Froese, CM, MD, MEd, FRCSC
Anne Holbrook, M.Sc., Pharm.D., MD, FRCPC
Magdalena Janus, M.Sc. (Jagiellonian), Ph.D. (Cambridge)
Anne Klassen, B.A. (Waterloo), D.Phil. (Oxford)
David Koff, MD (Paris)
Robert O’Brien, PhD
Tony Porter, PhD (Carleton)
Ally Prebtani, B.Sc.Phm. (Toronto), MD (McMaster), ABIM, FRCPC
David Price, B.Sc., MD, CCFP, FCFP
Kenneth Rosenthal, B.Sc. (Illinois), M.Sc. (Illinois), Ph.D. (McMaster)
Lisa Schwartz, B.A., M.A. (McGill), Ph.D. (Glasgow)
Harry Shannon, B.A. (Oxford), B.Sc. (Birmingham), Ph.D. (London) - Professor Emeritus
Lehana Thabane, B.Sc. (Lesotho), MSc. (England), Ph.D. (Western)
Anne Wong, Ph.D., MD, FRCPC
Zhou Xing, MD, M.Sc., Ph.D. (McMaster)

Associate Professors

Noori Akhtar-Danesh, B.Sc. (Ferdowsi), M.Sc. (Shiraz), Ph.D. (Newcastle)
Elizabeth Alvarez, M.D., MPH, Ph.D., CMCBT
Elizabeth Darling, BArtsSc (Hons), BHSc, MSc, PhD
Russell Jude De Souza, R.D., ScD
Nancy Doubleday, PhD (Queens)
Martha Fulford, B.Sc., B.Ed., M.A., MD, FRCPC
Hupfer Maureen, PhD
Padman Jayaratne, B.Sc. (Colombo), Ph.D. (Guelph)
Lydia Kapiriri, MD (Uganda), PhD (Norway)
Christian Kraeker, B.A., B.Sc., M.Sc., MD, FRCPC, DTM&H
Christopher Longo,  B.A. (York), M.Sc. (Western), Ph.D. (Toronto)
David Meyre, B.A. (York), M.Sc. (Western), Ph.D. (Toronto)
Christina Moffat, Ph.D. (McMaster)
Gillian Mulvale, B.A. (Waterloo), M.A. (Western), Ph.D. (McMaster)
Robby Nieuwlaat, M.Sc., Ph.D. (Maastricht)
Tim O’Shea, M.P.H. (Harvard), MD (McMaster), FRCPC
Jeffrey Pernica, MD, FRCPC
Glen Randall, B.A., M.A., M.B.A. (McMaster), Ph.D. (Toronto)
Olive Wahoush, RN, RSCN, M.Sc., Ph.D.

Assistant Professors

Daniel Ambrosini, BA, LLB/BCL, M.Sc, Ph.D. (McGill)/Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences
Neil Barr, BA (Western), MSc (McMaster), PhD (McMaster)
Zain Chagla, MSc, MD, FRCPC, DTMH
Mary Crea-Arsenio, MSc (Guelph), PhD (McMaster)
Deborah DiLiberto, MSc (LSHTM), PhD (LSHTM)
Alexander Drossos, MD, MBA, MED, BESC, BSC
Christy Gombay, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto)
Sandra Isaacs, B.Sc.N. (Western), MSc. (Western), Ph.D. (McMaster)
Rebecca Kruisselbrink, MD
Om Kurmi, PhD (University of Aberdeen, UK)
Lawrence Mbuagbaw, MD (Cameroon), M.P.H. (Israel), Ph.D. (McMaster)
Patricia McNiven,  MSc, PhD, RM
Amanda Sim, BA (New York), MA (Tufts), DPhil (Oxford)
Rahim Valani, M.M.E. (Dundee), MD (Queens)
Ryan J Van Lieshout, MD, PhD, FRCP(C)

Associate Members

Paul Alexander (HEI)
Sandi Azab (HEI)
Vishnawath Baba (School of Business)
Ellen Badone (Anthropology)
Sue Barclay - Instructor/Tutor
Marshall Beier (Political Science)
Linda Beyer - Instructor/Tutor
Laura Banfield (Nursing)
Sonya de Laat (Global Health)
David Goldfarb (Pediatrics)
Emmauel Guindon (HEI)
Elif Günçe - Instructor/Tutor
Magdalena Janus - (Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences)

Michael Jay - Instructor/Tutor

Sujane Kandassamy (Global Health)
Charu Kaushic (Pathology and Molecular Medicine)
Michael Ladouceur (Nursing)
James Lee - Instructor/Tutor
Mark Loeb (Pathology and Molecular Medicine)
Cynthia Lokker (HEI)
Bhandari Mohar (Surgery)
Beth Murray-Davis (Midwifery)
Bruce Newbold (Geography & Earth Sciences)
Josipa Petrunic - Contact and Sessional Faculty
Lynda Redwood-Campbell (Family Medicine)
Emma Richardon - Instructor/Tutor
Alison Fox Robichaud (Medicine)
Otto Sanchez - Instructor/Tutor
Darren Schemmer - Instructor/Tutor
Fiona Smail (Pathology and Molecular Medicine)
Jim Sutherland - Instructor/Tutor
Joseph Tan (Information Systems)
Ryan Van Lieshout - (Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences)

Emeritus Faculty

Virginia Aksan (History) - Professor Emeritus
Norman Archer (DeGroote School of Business-Information Systems), BSc. (UAlberta), MS (New York U), PhD (McMaster)
Harry Shannon, B.A. (Oxford), B.Sc. (Birmingham), Ph.D. (London)
Ruta Valaitis, B.A. (Windsor), B.Sc.N. (Windsor), M.H.Sc. (McMaster), Ph.D. (Toronto)

Programs

• Global Health, M.Sc.

• Global Health, Ph.D.

• Global Health Courses

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