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Faculty & Staff
CHEPA's Faculty members are from 3 Faculties, 2 Schools and 6 University Departments, creating a diverse and collegial environment for research and study. See below to learn more.
FACULTY
CHEPA's Faculty members are notable for the breadth and depth of their expertise and research, and are listed below in alphabetical order. They:
- Produce an average of 110 publications per year including books, peer reviewed articles, editorials and government reports
- Have been awarded an average of $4.6 million in principal investigator funding per year over the last five years
- Have received over 20 international, national and provincial honours and awards for their research and policy contributions including:
- Provincial career scientist awards
- CIHR New Investigator awards
- Canada Research Chairs
- Health Services Advancement Award
Julia Abelson
PhD
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS: public engagement methods and evaluation; values in health policy analysis; politics of health policy
905-525-9140
ext. 22879
abelsonj@mcmaster.ca
Elizabeth Alvarez
MD, PhD
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Associate Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Health promotion; behaviour change; chronic disease prevention and management; mental health; aging; health policy; health systems strengthening; public health; primary care; ecological approaches to health
905-525-9140
ext. 22248
alvare@mcmaster.ca
Ellen Amster
PhD
Faculty
Department of Family Medicine and History
Associate Professor
Jason A. Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine; Scholar, McMaster Education Research, Innovation & Theory (MERIT) Program
Area of Expertise: Middle East Studies & Islam; Global History of Biomedicine; Maternal & Infant Health in Morocco; Gender Violence
905-525-9140
ext. 20006
amstere@mcmaster.ca
Laura Anderson
PhD
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Associate Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Population and public health; life course epidemiology; chronic disease prevention; obesity; nutrition; measurement; women's and children's health
905-525-9140
ext. 21725
ln.anderson@mcmaster.ca
Emma Apatu
DrPH
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Associate Professor
Director, Master of Public Health Program
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Public health training and education; public health research; health services; health equity; disaster sociology
905-525-9140
ext. 22180
apatue@mcmaster.ca
Katherine Boothe
PhD
Faculty
Political Science
Associate Professor
Member, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Canadian and comparative politics; public policy in advanced industrial democracies; health and social policy; federalism
905-525-9140
ext. 21846
boothek@mcmaster.ca
Paul Contoyannis
PhD
Faculty
Economics
Associate Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS: health dynamics; determinants of health and health inequalities; simulation based inference in microeconometric models; economic determinants of body weight; economic effects in adulthood of childhood abuse; intergenerational transmission of income and health inequality
905-525-9140
ext. 26582
contoyp@mcmaster.ca
Andrew Costa
PhD
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Associate Professor
Schlegel Research Chair in Clinical Epidemiology & Aging
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Big Data & geriatric models of care; avoidable emergency department and acute care use among frail older adults
905-525-9140
ext. 22067
acosta@mcmaster.ca
Katherine Cuff
PhD
Faculty
Economics
Professor
McMaster University Scholar
Managing Editor, Canadian Journal of Economics
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Economic aspects of taxation and redistributive policies; health care financing; issues of federalism
905-525-9140
ext. 23827
cuffk@mcmaster.ca
David Feeny
PhD
Faculty
McMaster Decision Science Laboratory
Professor Emeritus
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Health Economics, Health-Related Quality of Life, Experimental economics; HTA
905-525-9140
ext. 23703
feeny@mcmaster.ca
Amiram Gafni
DSc
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS: economic evaluation (development and empirical applications); modeling of consumers’ and providers’ behaviours (eg. The physician-patient encounter); health policy analysis
Phone number not available
gafni@mcmaster.ca
Michel Grignon
PhD
Faculty
Health, Aging & Society and Economics
Professor
Graduate Chair of the Department of Health, Aging & Society
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Equity in health care utilization & financing; population aging; affordability & access to health and long-term care insurance and health care
905-525-9140
ext. 23493
grignon@mcmaster.ca
Emmanuel Guindon
PhD
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Associate Professor
Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis/Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Chair in Health Equity
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Health equity; economics of health behaviours; health services research; empirical health economics and policy.
905-525-9140
ext. 24658
emmanuel.guindon@mcmaster.ca
Jeremiah Hurley
PhD
Faculty
Economics
Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences
Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Health care financing, particularly public and private roles in health care financing; equity in health care; resource allocation and funding in the health sector; normative economic analysis in the health sector; experimental methods in health economics
905-525-9140
ext. 26156
hurley@mcmaster.ca
Lydia Kapiriri
PhD
Faculty
Health, Aging & Society
Associate Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Global health; HIV preventative behaviour; priority setting in health care
905-525-9140
ext. 27203
kapirir@mcmaster.ca
Asif Khowaja
PhD
Assistant Professor (Health Economics) Brock University
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Application of health economics modelling and mixed-methods research to inform policy decisions about resource allocation in healthcare
Boris Kralj
PhD
Faculty
Economics
Adjunct Assistant Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Health economics, and medical (physician) economics - physician compensation models and physician pay equity or “relativity.”
647-297-4188
kraljb@mcmaster.ca
John Lavis
MD, PhD
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Professor
Director, McMaster Health Forum
RESEARCH INTERESTS: use of research evidence, citizen values and stakeholder insights in policy making; politics of health and social systems
905-525-9140
ext. 22121
lavisj@mcmaster.ca
Mitchell Levine
MD, MSc, FRCPC, FACP, FISPE
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact; Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology
Professor
Assistant Dean, Health Research Methodology graduate program
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Clinical Epidemiology; Pharmaco-Economics
905-525-9140
ext. 20210
levinem@mcmaster.ca
Christopher Longo
PhD
Faculty
DeGroote School of Business, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis
Professor
Co-Lead, Health Technology Assessment, Canadian Centre for Applied Research in Cancer Control ; Executive Member, Master Health Management
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Costs, economic evaluation of cancer interventions/programs; Healthcare Management
905-525-9140
ext. 23896
clongo@mcmaster.ca
Kaelan Moat
PhD
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine
Assistant Professor
Managing Director, McMaster Health Forum
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Supporting the use of research evidence in health and social-system policy making.
905-525-9140
ext. 22121
moatka@mcmaster.ca
Gillian Mulvale
PhD
Faculty
DeGroote School of Business
Associate Professor, Health Policy and Management, DeGroote School of Business
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Health policy, mental health, co-design and co-production of services for structurally vulnerable populations
905-525-9140
ext. 28190
mulvale@mcmaster.ca
Glen Randall
PhD
Faculty
DeGroote School of Business
Co-Director, Masters in Health Management
Associate Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Health care system; not-for-profit governance & strategic management
905-525-9140
ext. 26191
randalg@mcmaster.ca
Lisa Schwartz
PhD
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
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Professor
Arnold L. Johnson Chair in Health Care Ethics
RESEARCH INTERESTS: humanitarian health care ethics; global health ethics; the teaching of ethics in health care education; patient advocacy; research ethics; bioethics; privacy and confidentiality
905-525-9140
ext. 22987
schwar@mcmaster.ca
Hsien Seow
PhD
Faculty
Oncology, Faculty of Health Sciences
Associate Professor
Site Director, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) Associate Member
Canada Research Chair in Palliative Care and Health System Innovation
905-307-9711
ext. 67175
seowh@mcmaster.ca
Arthur Sweetman
PhD
Faculty
Economics
Professor
Acting Director, Health Policy PhD Program; Ontario Research Chair in Health Human Resources
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Economic & empirical aspects of health human resources & industrial relations; quantitative program evaluation
905-525-9140
ext. 23218
arthur.sweetman@mcmaster.ca
Jean-Éric Tarride
PhD
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Professor
Director, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis; McMaster Chair in Health Technology Management; Director, Programs for Assessment of Technology in Health (PATH)
RESEARCH INTERESTS: health technology assessment and management; methods for the economic evaluation of health technologies and programs
905-525-9140
ext. 37024
tarride@mcmaster.ca
Meredith Vanstone
PhD
Faculty
Department of Family Medicine
Associate Professor
Area of Expertise: Qualitative Methods; Education Policy; Health Policy; Health Professions Education
905-525-9140
ext. 22113
meredith.vanstone@mcmaster.ca
Michael Wilson
PhD
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Associate Professor
Assistant Director, McMaster Health Forum
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Knowledge translation; citizen engagement methods & evaluation; politics of health systems
905-525-9140
ext. 22121
wilsom2@mcmaster.ca
Feng Xie
PhD
Faculty
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Professor
Director, Program for Health Economics and Outcome Measures (PHENOM) & HEI Department Education Coordinator
RESEARCH INTERESTS: HTA, economic evaluation; pharmacoeconomics; outcome measures
905-525-9140
ext. 41274
fengxie@mcmaster.ca
Jonathan Zhang
PhD
Faculty
Economics
Assistant Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Empirical economist with interests in health economics, public finance, and applied microeconomics
Stephen Birch
PhD
Professor Emeritus
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Professor Emeritus
RESEARCH INTERESTS: economic evaluation; resource allocation; population health; oral health economics
Phone number not available
Mita Giacomini
PhD
Professor Emeritus
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Professor Emerita
Brian Hutchison
MD, MSc
Professor Emeritus
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine
Professor Emeritus
Hutchison's career has been spent improving primary health care in Canada.
Greg Stoddart
PhD
Professor Emeritus
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Medicine
Professor Emeritus
Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis
A pioneer in health economics, health policy and population health
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Health economics, health policy, population health
Administrative Assistant: Terry Martens, marten@mcmaster.ca
Communications Specialist: Laura Ramsay, ramsay@mcmaster.ca
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