Research Interests

Health policy analysis; public participation in health care decision making; governance, organization and funding of community care.

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Biostatistics; methods of analyzing pain measurements; structure of fabricated data sets; longitudinal data and repeated measures; modeling risk factors of obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases.

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Epidemiology and community health.

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Clinical epidemiology; population health; women's health; aboriginal health; cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes, nutrition.

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Clinical epidemiology; clinical trials; transfusion medicine; platelet disorders; blood product utilization.

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Child mental health, school-based prevention interventions, influence of early conduct problems on future health and social outcomes, school influences on behavioural adjustment.

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Systematic reviews/meta-analyses; predictive modeling; health technology assessment; clinical research; multi-level modeling in linkage and association analysis, pediatric early warning system; pain management in infants at risk for neurological impairment; development of statistical methods for genomic data.

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Clinical epidemiology and surgery; musculoskeletal trauma; large multi-centre trials of tibial fracture management; evidence-based orthopaedics.

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Health economics; methods for economic evaluation of health interventions; equity in health care resource allocation; the relationship between health and environments.

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Economic evaluation; health technology assessment; decision analytic modelling; biostatistics.

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Clinical Epidemiology; breast cancer treatment and prevention; breast cancer risk assessment and management; health outcome research; pharmacoeconomics of cancer treatment

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Health technology assessment.

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Mood and behaviour disorders in children; measurement of psychopathology; gender differences in mental health disorders; clinical and epidemiologic studies; longitudinal data analysis.

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Child health and development: measurement of childhood psychiatric disorder; design and analysis of prevention studies; survey research methods; determinants of health; multilevel models.

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Pediatric urology focusing on surgical outcomes; multi-center randomized clinical trials.

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Health services research; health care of the older adult; end of life care; best practises in long term care; organizational change.

Research Interests

Methodology and conduct of randomized controlled trials; meta-analyses of aggregate and individual patient data.

Research Interests

Development, dissemination, implementation and evaluation of evidence-based decisions; decision-making; knowledge translation and/or brokering; behaviour change particularly as it relates to health communication.

Research Interests

Clinical practice guideline development and implementation; evidence-based decision making; health information sciences; evaluation of clinical interventions in cancer.

Research Interests

Spatio-temporal processes; time inhomogeneous multi-state models; continuous spatial models for area censored disease incidence data; Clustered inhomogeneous spatial point processes; statistical software for Bayesian inference for disease mapping of small area data

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Clientele shared by health and social sectors; the combination of problems that guides simultaneous use of services; factors which explain the variability of client outcomes; the cost of a "life without purpose" to society.

Research Interests

Methodology of clinical practice guidelines and systematic reviews; development and adaptation of clinical practice guidelines and systematic reviews of therapeutic and diagnostic interventions; allergy and immunology.

Research Interests

Development and evaluation of innovative study designs to overcome barriers to conducting research in clinical settings; promotion and facilitation of multi-centre studies; evaluation of surgical and rehabilitation interventions through randomized clinical trials, observational studies, systematic reviews; evaluation of diagnostic tests; development and evaluation of measurement instruments.

Research Interests

Methodological research including expertise-based randomization and the use of composite endpoints in clinical trials.

Research Interests

Epidemiology of mental health problems across the life span, and the impact of childhood physical disability on psychosocial and physical development in children.

Research Interests

Information retrieval and management for the purposes of economic evaluation and health technology assessment.

Research Interests

Computational statistics; Monte Carlo Markov chain methods; bootstrap and other re-sampling methods; graphical methods; Monte Carlo inference; efficient computer implementation of statistical algorithms.

Research Interests

Health research, continuing professional development of health practitioners, promotion of health in older adults, linkages between research, public health planning and programming, clinical medicine and health service.

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Soo completed her PhD in McMaster's Health Research Methodology program in 2006. Her research has included studies for improving the care of elderly nursing home residents. She combines quantitative and qualitative methods to provide a more in-depth evaluation of interventions.

Research Interests

Shared treatment decision-making; physician-patient relationship; public participation in health care decision-making; research transfer; the health professions and public policy.

Research Interests

Vasopressin for the management of shock; maintenance intravenous fluid used in children.

Research Interests

Chronic renal failure, urolithiasis, peritoneal dialysis, hemodialysis, the effect of a membrane biocompatibility and hydraulic flux on clinical outcome, quality of life research and polycystic kidney disease.

Research Interests

Clinical epidemiology; low glomerular filtration rate; chronic renal insufficiency; dialysis; vascular disease; thrombosis; bleeding; anticoagulation; population epidemiology; cohort studies; randomized trials.

Research Interests

Clinical epidemiology; knowledge translation of new discoveries into effective clinical practice; GIM/ICU clinical effectiveness and outcomes research; life-support technology assessment; design of multi-centre randomized clinical trials.

Research Interests

Health services research; health care of the older adult; end of life care; best practises in long term care; organizational change.

Research Interests

Treatment of eating disorders; developing new family-based interventions for children and youth with anorexia and bulimia.

Research Interests

Use of vitamin K to treat warfarin-associated coagulopathy; use of low molecular weight heparin in patients with renal failure; studies and systematic reviews of various interventions and observations in Hematology and Thromboembolism.

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Research Interests

Clinical epidemiology; peri-operative care; patient decision making and risk management; health policy / health services research.

Research Interests

Health services research; introduction and evaluation of acute care and primary care nurse practitioner (NP) roles.

Research Interests

Evaluation of knowledge brokering and evidence-informed decision-making in public health, in Canada and internationally.

Research Interests

Shared treatment decision-making; physician-patient relationship; public participation in health care decision-making; research transfer; the health professions and public policy.

Research Interests

Assessment/evaluation; measures of admission; the process of clinical handover; the psychological factors relevant to health professions education and clinical decision making.

Research Interests

Peri-operative anticoagulation and bridging anticoagulation, clinical course and prognostic factors related to venous Thromboembolism, anticoagulant-related bleeding, hormonal therapy and thromboembolic disease, and the use of thromboprophylactic strategies in medical patients.

Research Interests

Theoretical, statistical and computational approaches to understanding the evolution and spread of infectious diseases.

Research Interests

Mathematical modeling of biological systems, primarily for applications in epidemiology, ecology and animal behaviour.

Research Interests

Health Services Research in Gynecologic Oncology, specifically ovarian cancer, Randomized trials specifically in CIN 1 and ovarian cancer, Treatment decision making in ovarian cancer, and she has published extensively on these topics.

Research Interests

Health policy making; knowledge translation; governance; performance reporting for health systems and organizations; quality of care; accreditation; patient safety; human resources for health.

Research Interests

Clinical epidemiology; clinical trials in breast and lung cancer; doctor-patient communication and decision making; strategies for diffusion and dissemination of clinical research.

Research Interests

Public Health Services Department, City of Hamilton; public health.

Professor Emeritus

Research Interests

Psychological factors relevant to the acquisition and maintenance of expertise as well as student assessment, clinical decision-making, and admissions tools; cognitive psychology; health-sciences education.

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Environmental health and EH policy; evaluation of health care systems and programs; utilization of evidence-based decision-making frameworks in health and environmental settings; population health at the local level.

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Research Interests

Short and long-term outcomes of chronic conditions; comparative studies in surgical procedures; relationships between risk factors and outcomes.

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Research Interests

Economic evaluation of health care programmes; modelling of consumers' health-care behaviour; models of patient-physician shared decision-making; policy analysis and risk and decision analysis in health.

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Department of Medicine and Epidemiology, UWO, and London Kidney Clinical Research Unit: clinical epidemiology; kidney health and renal care; health informatics and information synthesis.

Research Interests

The design,organization,management and analysis of multicentre,randomized controlled trials

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Contextual influences (neighbourhoods, schools, families) on child health and development, with an emphasis on immigrant children and families.

Research Interests

Clinical epidemiology; clinical trials in diabetes prevention and therapy; population health approaches to reducing the burden of diabetes and preventing new diabetes; diabetes, cardiovascular disease and kidney disease.

Research Interests

Health Policy Analysis; social dimensions of health technology innovation, assessment, and rationing; values in health policy and decision making; resource allocation and priority setting for health services; methods of interdisciplinary policy analysis.

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Research Interests

Methods of economic appraisal and health technology assessment; economic evaluation; decision analytic modelling; uncertainty; cost-effectiveness analysis; cost-utility analysis; cost-benefit analysis.

Research Interests

Statistical Methodology related to the evaluation of therapies involved in musculo-skeletal conditions.

Research Interests

Medical education, simulation-based education, assistive technologies and the control and acquisition of precision motor skill.

Research Interests

Program in Occupational Health and Environmental Medicine, McMaster: biostatistics; occupational health.

Research Interests

Economics of ageing as it applies to health care, the economic analysis of equity in health and health care, and international comparisons of health care systems.

Research Interests

Clinical epidemiology; evidence-based medicine; quality of life; technology assessment; overview methodology and clinical decision-making.

Research Interests

Clinical epidemiology; occupational health (effects of occupational exposures on health and the benefit of occupational health and educational interventions); and evidence-based health care.

Research Interests

Statistical methods in medicine, epidemiology and public health applications

Research Interests

Biostatistics; multilevel models; structural equation models; childhood disability; social psychology.

Research Interests

Clinical epidemiology; health informatics; information retrieval; knowledge translation research; computerized clinical decision support; clinical trials; patient adherence; diabetes care.

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Clinical epidemiology; mixed-methods research in transfusion medicine; patho-physiology of acute reactions associated with platelet transfusions; blood product utilization.

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Professor Emeritus

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Research Interests

Global health governance; health systems; knowledge translation; intellectual property; international organizations; empirical methods; legal and political analysis.

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Public health and preventive medicine.

Research Interests

Biostatistics; health teachnology assessment.

Research Interests

Clinical epidemiology; clinical pharmacology; methodological issues in complex clinical trials - clustering, missing data, composite scores; electronic integration of patient, provider, decision support for improved vascular outcomes.

Research Interests

Public and private roles in health care financing; resource allocation and health care funding models; the use of incentives in health care; normative economic analysis in the health sector; the application of experimental methods in health economics.

Research Interests

Organization, funding and delivery of primary and community care, needs-based health care resource allocation and funding methods, provider payment methods, quality improvement and preventive care.

Research Interests

Dr. Hutton contributes to the HRM program and is interested in randomised controlled trial methodology. Eileen studies aspects of clinical obstetrical/ midwifery practice such as mode of delivery, breech presentation, multiple births, and impacts of practice on newborns.

Research Interests

Knowledge translation research and medical informatics

Research Interests

Biostatistics; clinical epidemiology; population and public health; health technology assessment.  

Research Interests

Community approaches and nursing interventions to identify and address family violence and processes related to knowledge transfer and exchage.

Research Interests

Academic interests include transfer of knowledge between research data and clinical application. He works in the area of practice guidelines development and implementation, and computerized clinical decision support systems.

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Current research interests include: readiness to learn at school; community correlates; impact of non-parental care; transition to school; early school adjustment for children with typical and atypical development; social relationships in young human and non-human primates.

Research Interests

Logic and epidemiology, critical thinking in medicine in uses of evidence in medical practice and research.

Research Interests

Development and interpretation of health status and health-related quality of life measures, as well as the methodology of systematic reviews and clinical trials. 

Professor Emeritus

Research Interests

Diagnosis and treatment of venous thromboembolic disease.

Research Interests

Outcomes assessment for allergic and clinical immunology conditions particularly asthma, rhinitis, and nasal polyposis.

Research Interests

Clinical epidemiology; neonatology and pediatrics; management of neonatal lung disease; parental counselling, pediatric Health Related Quality of Life & Parental Hope; large-scale randomised trials.

Research Interests

Developing, validating and using patient-reported outcome measures to assess health and well-being in clinical and population-based studies.

Research Interests

Clinical epidemiology; health economics; cardiovascular disease; clinical trials testing new drugs and procedures in cardiac surgery.

Research Interests

Research interests span several areas, including: knowledge transfer and exchange in public policymaking environments and the politics of healthcare systems.

Research Interests

Clinical epidemiology; neuro-developmental clinical research; development, validation, and transfer into practice of outcome measures; evaluation of therapy interventions; environmental constraints affecting participation of children with disabilities in daily life activities.

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Research Interests

Clinical epidemiology; pharmaco-economics; assessing prescription drug use in the community; developing methods for promoting cost-effective use of drug therapy; influence of physician and patient values on use of drug therapies.

Research Interests

Clinical trials in breast cancer and venous thromboembolism.

Research Interests

Child and adolescent psychiatry; single-parent families; disadvantaged children; group therapies; effectiveness studies; epidemiology.

Research Interests

Clinical epidemiology; emerging infectious diseases; population genetics and infectious diseases; prevention of influenza; antimicrobial use and resistance; acute care hospital epidemiology.

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Qualitative research; participatory action research; RAP (rapid assessment procedures); program evaluation; health education.

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Research Interests

Clinical epidemiology, cervical cancer screening, HPV, Anatomical pathology.

Research Interests

Clinical epidemiology; physical therapy; upper-extremity clinical research.

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Public Health

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Clinical epidemiology; pediatrics and child psychiatry; violence against children and women; women's health.

Research Interests

Health services research, home and community care, interprofessional collaboration, chronic disease prevention and management, and economic evaluation of comprehensive clinical interventions for older adults and their caregivers.

Research Interests

Centre for Evaluation of Medicines (SJHH-McMaster): health technology assessment (devices, drugs, diagnostics), health services research (screening and diagnostic tests).

Research Interests

The overall aim of her research program is to decrease cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in women, by targeting at risk groups such as preeclamptics, identified during pregnancy, a point early enough to institute cardiovascular risk factor modification as primary prevention.

Research Interests

eHealth applications, eHealth education, knowledge translation, medical/health informatics, and information retrieval.

Research Interests

Clinical epidemiology; acute lung injury; lung protective ventilation strategies; clinical trials in mechanical ventilation; weaning from mechanical ventilation.

Research Interests

Clinical epidemiology; large international clinical trials; risk factors and treatment therapies for acute coronary syndromes.

Research Interests

Dr. Mente is interested in examining novel gene variants and their interaction with dietary components or patterns associated with cardiovascular disease outcomes (e.g., myocardial infarction, sudden cardiac death, heart failure, and stroke) and key intermediate phenotypes.

Research Interests

Hospital epidemiology; antimicrobial stewardship; antimicrobial use and resistance; bacterial infectious diseases.

Research Interests

Dr Meyre is an internationally recognized expert in genetic epidemiology of metabolic diseases.

Research Interests

BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, and Faculty of Health Sciences, SFU, Burnaby BC: global health and human-rights law; evidence-based health care; HIV testing and individual rights; HIV adherence and delivery of care.

Research Interests

Clinical epidemiology; population-health approaches to common gastro-intestinal disorders; clinical and economic assessment of H. pylori screening and treatment; methodology related to clinical and health services research.

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Knowledge translation

Research Interests

Health care performance evaluation; health services research; e-Health and Clinical Decision Support tools.

Research Interests

Epidemiological methods; cancer genomics-translational research with a focus on cancer prevention.

Research Interests

Dr. Neufeld is a physician, educator and international consultant based in Hamilton, Canada.

Research Interests

Clinical cardiovascular epidemiology; knowledge translation; management guideline adherence; interventions to overcome evidence-practice gaps; patient and cluster randomized trials; systematic reviews; atrial fibrillation; anticoagulation.

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Research Interests

Knowledge translation; development of clinical reasoning; educational strategies to improve clinical reasoning; the psychology of expertise; student learning, student assessment.

Research Interests

Economic evaluation, health technology assessment, health policy, meta-analysis, pharmacoepidemiology and clinical epidemiology.

Research Interests

McMaster Evidence-based Practice Centre: aging and dementia; epidemiology; health economics/policy

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Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers: observational studies in occupational health in the workplace.

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MGeriatric Medicine: clinical epidemiology; osteoporosis and fractures; quality of life and pharmacotherapy in seniors.

Research Interests

My main research focus is Genetic and molecular epidemiology. Briefly, I aim to identify genetic determinants of complex disease such as hypertension, coronary artery disease, cerebrovascular disease and other types of chronic disease.

Research Interests

Ethics of research, genetics, and clinical practice.

Research Interests

Biostatistics, Clinical trials, Composite outcomes, Meta-analysis

Research Interests

Biostatistics, clinical trial methodology, and statistical design in oncology.

Research Interests

Research Interests

Biostatistics; cost-effectiveness; longitudinal data; missing data; semi-parametric models.

Research Interests

Occupation Health Clinics for Ontario Workers: occupational health and medicine; epidemiologic evaluation of work-related health effects.

Research Interests

Epidemiology; population health / public health; dementia and aging; methodology, meta-analysis, and systematic review; geriatric epidemiology; caregiver health; injury research and prevention.

Research Interests

Public Health Services Department, City of Hamilton; Director of Community Medicine Residency Program; public and population health, epidemiology; control of infectious diseases.

Research Interests

Design, execution, and analysis of randomized controlled trials.

Research Interests

Family-centred service – what it is and how to measure it; the natural history and prognosis of children with cerebral palsy; measurement and classification of functional status of children with disabilities; and knowledge translation.

Research Interests

Randomized trials

Research Interests

Psychiatric genetics; comorbidity of depression with cardiometabolic disorders; addiction and suicide risk factors.

Research Interests

McMaster Evidence-based Practice Centre: kinesiology, physical therapy; systematic review methodology; aging.

Research Interests

Mood disorders in children, adolescents and young adults; multigenerational transmission of risk for psychopathology.

Research Interests

University of Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: large neonatal randomized trials with long-term outcomes.

Research Interests

Clinical studies in venous thromboembolism; hemophilia, its treatment and complications of viral transmission by blood products.

Research Interests

Guideline development, systematic reviews, health related quality of life, pulmonary function and respiratory disease epidemiology and knowledge translation.

Research Interests

Health-care ethics; health-research ethics; measurement and effectiveness of ethics education; Knowledge Translation; cancer.

Research Interests

Clinical epidemiology; observational and interventional studies on drug prescribing in primary care and specialist settings; information technology-based solutions in support of improved clinical data capture.

Research Interests

Examining ways to better coordinate, organize and deliver healthcare services and improve quality for those with serious, chronic illness.

Research Interests

Biostatistics; occupational health and safety; injuries; healthy workplaces; musculoskeletal disorders; determinants of health.

Research Interests

Niagara Region Public Health Department: program evaluation at the health unit level; public health policy;

Research Interests

Clinical epidemiology; health economics / health services research; colorectal cancer surgery; outcome measures related to surgical oncology.

Research Interests

The role of evidence in making treatment recommendations, and in the ways in which beneficial and adverse effects of treatment can be best communicated.

Research Interests

Clinical epidemiology; infectious diseases; interaction between infections, inflammation, and chronic cardiovascular and respiratory diseases; prevention and treatment strategies.

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Research Interests

Health economics: inter-sectoral economic evaluation methods; social and economic determinants of health/production of health; and policy making

Research Interests

Clinical epidemiology; rehabilitation sciences; development and evaluation of clinical measurement methods.

Research Interests

Dr. Steiner's primary research interests are the psychological effects of medical disorders and treatments, and applying psychological ways of thinking to other areas.

Research Interests

Research Interests

Perinatal health and health services; access to care; service utilization; vulnerable populations; qualitative methods; and mixed methods.

Research Interests

Psychiatric and genetic epidemiology; preschool children with autism; adolescent psychopathology and high risk behaviours; sampling and measurement issues.

Research Interests

Health technology assessment; economic evaluation; decision analytic modelling; cost-effectiveness analysis; cost-utility analysis; cost-benefit analysis; value of information; longitudinal analysis of healthcare utilization data.

Professor Emeritus

Research Interests

Clinical epidemiology; trials, epidemiology, patterns of practice analysis, outcomes research, meta-analysis, cardiovascular disease.

Research Interests

Biostatistics and research methodology; Bayesian and non-Bayesian statistics; design and analysis of RCT's; data-mining techniques; patient preferences; health services and outcomes research.

Research Interests

Research Interests

Clinical epidemiology; surgery outcomes research; utility measurement in surgery; evidence-based surgery guides ; Clinical-effectiveness analysis in postmastectomy breast reconstruction and breast reduction; Utility measurment in Dupuytren's Contracture.

Research Interests

Research Interests

Economic evaluation in health.

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Research Interests

Emergency medicine, Evidence based medicine

Research Interests

Epidemiology of acute kidney injury and acute glomerulonephritis; clinical trial methodology

Research Interests

Biostatistics; design and analysis of research studies; evaluation of diagnostic and screening data; risk assessment and communication; spatial and temporal variation in health data.

Research Interests

Community Medicine, Public Health and Preventive Medicine

Research Interests

Clinical epidemiology; clinical trials in oncology for the management of breast cancer; use of treatment decision aids for women with breast cancer.

Research Interests

Current research interests are primarily in knowledge translation research, medical informatics, information retrieval and quality of reporting.

Professor Emeritus

Research Interests

Health policy analysis; pharmaceutical policy and data privacy issues in health services research.

Research Interests

Supporting the use of research evidence in health systems; politics of healthcare systems and the social determinants of health for people living with HIV/AIDS.

Research Interests

Health policy analysis; pharmaceutical policy and data privacy issues in health services research.

Research Interests

Clinical epidemiology; emergency medicine; methodology of retrospective studies; screening and diagnostic tests in emergency medicine; quality assessment in emergency medical services.

Research Interests

Health policy analysis; pharmaceutical policy and data privacy issues in health services research.

Research Interests

Evaluation of the utilization, harms, benefits, and appropriateness of diagnostic imaging technology using a range of research methodologies, including clinical trials, observational studies using administrative data, cost-effectiveness studies, and qualitative studies

Research Interests

Clinical epidemiology; multi-centred international clinical trials; cardiovascular disease and prevention; ethnicity; diabetes; obesity; population health in developed and developing countries.