Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Gina Browne
B.Sc.N. (Catherine Spaulding College, Kentucky),MS (Boston), MEd (Toronto- OISE), PhD (Toronto- OISE), Hon.LL.D (Ryerson)
Professor, School of Nursing
Associate Member, Dept of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Founder and Director, Health & Social Service Utilization Research Unit (formerly System-Linked Research Unit)
Faculty Member, Ontario Training Centre in Health Services and Policy Research
MOHLTC Theme Lead, Innovative and Integrated Systems of Prevention and Care
905.525.9140 x22293
905.528.5099
browneg@mcmaster.ca
Office location:
Health and Social Service Utilization Research Unit
McMaster Innovation Park
175 Longwood Road South, Suite 210A
Hamilton, ON L8P 0A1
Administrative Assistant: Fiona Myers
905.525.9140 x 22707
fiona.myers@mcmaster.ca
Academic Interests
Dr. Browne teaches and supervises students in both the HRM program and the graduate programs of the School of Nursing.
Since 1978, Gina has been in clinical practice as the family therapist for a Halton Health Service Organization. She has a long track record of conducting research in chronic illness and service utilization at McMaster University, in developing others in the conduct of research, linking and coordinating a variety of clinical and research initiatives. She is particularly interested in 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 and the cost of a “life without purpose” to society. It has been said that, “Gina often thinks the unthinkable, says the unsayable and does the undoable!”
Current Graduate Students
S. Carroll, Post-Doctoral Fellow of the HSFO/Michael G. DeGroote Chair in Cardiovascular Nursing Research
L. Teague, PhD (Nursing)
L. Costantini, PhD (Nursing)
A. Garnett, MSc (Nursing)
L. Dysart, MSc (HRM)
K. Cook, PhD (Nursing)
Recent Graduate Students
T. Babineau, MSc (Nursing) 2010
V. Grdisa, PhD (Nursing) 2010
A. Wheat, transferred to PhD program at Dalhousie University, Halifax, 2010
Selected Publications
- Browne G. More Effective/Less Expensive Health Services Also Address the Social Determinants of Health. The Journal of the Ontario Association of Social Workers, 37(1), 2011.
- Browne G. Making the Case for Youth Recreation Integrated Service Delivery: More Effective and Less Expensive. Social Issues in Canadian Sport: Third Edition, 189-196, 2010.
- Browne G. Integrating Health Services to Serve Vulnerable People More Cost-effectively in Ontario, Canada. KPMG International, A Better Pill to Swallow, 2010.
- Browne G. Knowledge Translation: Getting Efficacious Interventions Incorporated Into Practice: Lessons Learned. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, December 2009; Vol 41(4), 83-89.
- Browne, G., Roberts, J., Byrne, C., Gafni, A., Weir, R., Majumdar, B. The Costs and Effects of Addressing the Needs of Vulnerable Populations: Results of 10 Years of Research. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, 41, 1:193-203, 2009.
- Browne G, Kingston D, Grdisa V, Markle-Reid M. Conceptualization and Measurement of Integrated Human Service Networks for Evaluation. International Journal of Integrated Care, Vol. 7:1-6, 2007.
- Procter S, Watson B, Byrne C, Bremner J, van Zwanenberg T, Browne G , Roberts J, Gafni A. The development of an applied whole-systems research-methodology in health and social service research: A Canadian and United Kingdom collaboration. In Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methods Reader: A Canadian Orientation Pearson Education Canada Inc., British Columbia, 2005.
- Byrne C, Browne G, Roberts J, Gafni A, Bell B, Chalklin L, Kraemer J, Mills M, Wallik D. Adolescent emotional/behavioural problems and risk behaviour in Ontario primary care: comorbidities and costs. International Journal of NPACE, 8(3),135-144, 2004.
- Browne G, Gafni A, Byrne C, Roberts J, Majumdar B. Effective/efficient mental health programs for school-age children: A synthesis of reviews. Social Science and Medicine, 58:1367-1384, 2004.
- Bell B, Browne G, Steiner M, Roberts J, Gafni A, Byrne C, Chalklin L, Wallik D, Kraemer J, Mills M, Webb M, Jamieson E, Dunn E. Burden of dysthymia and comorbid illness in adults in a Canadian primary care setting: High rates of psychiatric illness in the offspring. Journal of Affective Disorders, 78(1):73-80, 2004.