DiCenso, Alba

Nursing & Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics (CE&B)

Introduction and evaluation of advanced practice nursing roles; evidence-based nursing; knowledge dissemination.

Overall OTC Director

Brazil, Kevin

Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics (CE&B)

Health care for the older adult; promotion of best practice in long-term care; understanding the needs of the frail elderly (dementia care, end-of-life care) and their caregivers; exploring strategies to support this group.

OTC McMaster Site Director

Sword, Wendy

School of Nursing

Perinatal health and services, with a particular interest in populations at risk for poor outcomes and service accessibility (health status and service use of mothers and newborn infants, pathways leading to postpartum depression, prenatal care, services for women with addictions and their children).

OTC Principal Investigator

Watt, Susan

Department of Social Work

Health policy research focusing on the intersection of health and social policy domestically and internationally.  Most recent research studies: The Ontario Mother and Infant Survey (TOMIS, TOMIS II, TOMIS III) examining the health and social care of women and their newborn infants; health utilization of women in Yemen, Uganda, and Canada.

OTC Principal Investigator

Abelson, Julia

CE&B

Democratic participation in healthy policy and decision-making; development and evaluation of public involvement methods; governance, organization and funding of community care; and health policy analysis.

Birch, Stephen

CE&B

Economic evaluation; resource allocation; and population health.

Boyle, Mike

CE&B

Child health and development; socioeconomic determinants of health; social epidemiology; secondary analyses of large data sets.

Browne, Gina

Nursing, CE&B

Health services research and expenditures; health and social service utilization research and expenditures by vulnerable children, adults, seniors; evaluation of services provided by AIDS service organizations.

Carroll, Barbara

Political Science

Public management and implementation; decision-making and policy-making; organizational design and research methods; policy-making; administrative reform and implementation in less developed areas.

Ciliska, Donna

Nursing

Community health; systematic reviews of public health practice; dissemination and uptake of research evidence.

Cuneo, Carl

Sociology

Information and communication technologies in education; social implications of the internet

Denton, Margaret

Office of Gerontological Studies & Sociology

Formal care giving, health and aging; community health and social services; long-term care; supportive housing; retirement; income equality; women's health.

Dobbins, Maureen

Nursing

Evidence-based nursing; research transfer and uptake.

Dooley. Martin

Economics

Socioeconomic determinants of child health and development; child poverty; social assistance policy; labour force and welfare participation of lone mothers.

Devereaux, Philip

CE&B

Research evaluating health outcomes and cost of care in patients managed in private for-profit versus private not-for-profit health care delivery systems and health outcomes among patients with the same diagnosis in Canada versus the US.  Also I undertake several large international studies (RCT, and cohort study) evaluating major vascular complications of patients undergoing noncardiac surgery. 

Elliott, Susan

School of Geography and Geology

Human health impacts of environmental exposures; Geographies of aboriginal health; Geographies of heart health and heart health promotion.

Eyles, John

Geography

Environmental health, risk research, resource allocation, community decision-making, system evaluation.

Gafni,  Amiram

CE&B

Economic evaluation (methods and applications); decision boards; and modeling of consumers’ and providers’ behaviour (e.g., the physician-patient encounter).

Giacomini, Mita

CE&B

Social dimensions of health technology innovation, assessment, and rationing; values in health policy and decision making; health care organization and funding reform models; and methodology for policy analysis and case study research.

Gillett, James

Health Aging and Society & Department of Sociology

Research interests are in the area of cultural representations of health and illness.  Most recently he has been involved in an OHTN funded study on approaches to care among people with HIV/AIDS in which he is particularly interested in the role that lay knowledge plays in treatment and care decisions.

Goldsmith, Charles

CE&B

Applied statistics, linear models, experimental design, clinical trials and pharmaco-epidemiology, as well as applied health research.  His interests in education include:  biostatistical methodology, graphical data display, research design, clinical trials and pharmaco-epidemiology, linear models, modern data analysis, continuous quality improvement and program evaluation.  In consulting, interests include:  clinical trials, pollution data analysis, user-oriented problems in experimental designs, continuous quality improvement and program evaluation.

Guyatt, Gordon

CE&B

Randomized trials in a wide variety of areas, systematic reviews, guideline development, health status measurement.

Haynes, Brian

CE&B

Knowledge translation research and health informatics related to evidence-based clinical practice.

Herring, Ann

Department of Anthropology

My research centers on the anthropology of infectious disease and explores the way social circumstances allow epidemics to flourish and then transform the societies in which they emerge.  Much of my work takes place in an archival setting and has a strong historical bent, involving analysis and interpretation of historical texts.  My work straddles the Department’s strengths in medical anthropology, human biology, ethnohistory and the anthropology of death.

Holbrook, Anne

Clinical Pharmacology

She holds a Career Investigator award from CIHR based on innovations in evidence-based therapy decision-making by patients, providers and regulators.  She leads a research program based on electronic medical records as data sources and vehicles for intervention which is currently focused on a Web-based, patient- and provider- shared electronic diabetes tracker and automated telephone reminder support.  She is heavily involved in other studies involving large administrative data sets, individualization of benefit: harm information for better patient decision-making, exploration of channeling bias regarding prescribing and drug policy analysis.  Dr. Holbrook’s forte is implementation of research results.