Health Policy

Program and Course Offerings

The interdisciplinary, interdepartmental, interfaculty program in Health Policy at McMaster University offers a Ph.D. in Health Policy.
Email: hpphd@mcmaster.ca
Website: https://healthsci.mcmaster.ca/hpphd

Supervising Faculty/Fall 2024

Professors

Julia Abelson, B.A. Sc. (Hons) (McMaster), M.Sc. (Harvard), Ph.D. (Bath)
Katherine Cuff, Ph.D. (Queen’s)
Nancy Doubleday, LL.B. (Osgoode), Ph.D. (Queen’s)
James Dunn, B.Arts.Sc., M.A. (McMaster), Ph.D. (Simon Fraser)
Michel Grignon, M.Sc. (ENSAE, Paris, France), Ph.D. (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France)
Jeremiah E. Hurley, B.A. (John Carroll), M.A., Ph.D. (Wisconsin-Madison)
Magdelana Janus, M.Sc., (Jagiellonian), Ph.D. (Cambridge), PDF (Toronto)
John Lavis, M.D. (Queen’s), M.Sc. (London School of Economics), Ph.D. (Harvard)
Lisa Schwartz, B.A., M.A. (McGill), Ph.D. (Glasgow)
Arthur Sweetman, B.Eng. (McGill), M.A., Ph.D. (McMaster)
Jean-Eric Tarride, B.A., M.A. (Toulouse), Ph.D. (Concordia)

Associate Professors

Elizabeth Alvarez, MPH (Northwest), Ph.D (McMaster)
Ellen Amster, B.A. (Chicago), M.A., Ph.D. (Pennsylvania)
Katherine Boothe, B.A. (Hons) (Alberta), M.A., Ph.D. (UBC)
Paul Contoyannis, B.Sc., M.Sc., D.Phil. (York)
Andrew Costa, B.Sc., Ph.D. (Waterloo)
Lawrence Grierson, B.Sc. (Waterloo), M.Sc. (Waterloo), Ph.D. (McMaster)
Emmanuel Guindon, B.A. (Hons) (McGill), M.A. (Victoria), Ph.D. (McMaster)
Lydia Kapiriri, M.D. (Makerere, Uganda), MPH (Royal Tropical Institute), M.Med PH (Makerere), Ph.D. (Bergen, Norway)
Christopher Longo, B.A. (York), M.Sc. (Western), Ph.D. (Toronto)
Gillian Mulvale, B.A. (Waterloo), M.A. (Western), Ph.D. (McMaster)
Glen Randall, B.A., M.A., M.B.A. (McMaster), Ph.D. (Toronto)
Stacey Ritz, B.Sc. (Hons) (McMaster), M.Ed (Western), Ph.D. (McMaster)
Hsien Seow, B.Sc. (Yale), Ph.D. (John Hopkins)
Meredith Vanstone, B.A. (Hons) (McMaster), Ph.D. (Western)
Jennifer Walker, B.Sc. (Western), Ph.D (Calgary)
Michael Wilson, B.Sc. (Hons) (McMaster), Ph.D. (McMaster)
Marisa Young, B.A., M.A. (Calgary), Ph.D. (Toronto)

Assistant Professors

Jenna Evans, Ph.D. (Toronto)
Chelsea Gabel, B.Sc. (Western), M.Sc. (Windsor), Ph.D. (McMaster)
Fatimah Jackson-Best, Ph.D. (Toronto)
Aaron Jones, Ph.D. (McMaster)
Fiona Kouyoumdijan, MD (Dalhousie), Ph.D. (Toronto)
Li-Shan Amanda Sim, Ph.D. (Oxford)
Jonathan Zhang, Ph.D. (Standford)

Professor Emerita

Mita Giacomini, B.Sc., M.P.H., M.A., Ph.D. (California)

Professor Emeritus

Stephen Birch, B.A. (Sheffield), M.Sc. (Bath), D.Phil. (York)

Affiliated Faculty

Laura Anderson, MPH, PhD; Assistant Professor, Department of Health Research Evidence, Methods, and Impact
Andrea Baumann, BScN, MScN, PhD, FAAN; Associate Vice President, Global Health
Heather Bullock, PhD; Assistant Professor (part-time), Department of Health Research Evidence, Methods, and Impact
Fadi El-Jardi, MPH, PhD; Associate Professor (part-time), Department of Health Research Evidence, Methods, and Impact
Amiram Gafni, BSc, MSc, DSc; Professor, Department of Health Research Evidence, Methods, and Impact
Kathy Georgiades, BA, MSc, PhD; Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences
Anne Holbrook, MD, PharmD, MSC, FRCP(C); Professor, Department of Medicine
Michelle Howard, PhD; Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine
Nick Kates, MD; Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences
Melissa Kimber, RSW, MSW, PhD; Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences
Harriet MacMillan, MD, FRCPC; Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences
Lawrence Mbuagbaw, MD, MPH, PhD; Associate Professor, Department of Health Research Evidence, Methods, and Impact
Kaelan Moat, PhD; Assistant Professor, Department of Health Research Evidence, Methods, and Impact
Anne Niec, MD; Part Time/Adjunct Faculty, Department of Pediatrics
Holger Schunemann, MD, MSc, PhD, FRCPC; Professor, Departments of Department of Health Research Evidence, Methods, and Impact and Medicine.
Fionna Smaill, MBChB, FRCPC; Professor, Departments of Pathology and Molecular Medicine and Medicine
Olive Wahoush, RN, RSCN, MSc, PhD; Associate Director, School of Nursing

Programs

Doctoral

Health Policy, Ph.D

Course Offerings

Health Policy Courses