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Find an advisor for your graduate studies
If you plan to pursue a graduate studies program, you'll need an advisor who is committed to supporting you.
Explore your options
Review the list of advisors accepting graduate students and be sure to check out their research profile page to learn more about their research interests. If you're interested in working with a faculty researcher who isn’t listed, feel free to reach out to them directly to explore potential opportunities.
Reaching out
When you're ready to contact a faculty member about a graduate position, make sure to include:
- Your curriculum vitae (CV) or resume
- Academic transcripts from all post-secondary institutions (including the University of Manitoba, if applicable)
- A description of any research or teaching experience you've had
Faculty accepting students
Please note that not all advisors have funding. Students should discuss this question directly with potential advisors to learn more.
| Faculty member | Currently accepting | Research interests |
|---|---|---|
| Tracie Afifi | MSc, PhD | Child maltreatment, mental health, resilience, prevention, and intervention |
| John Ataguba | MSc, PhD | Economics of ageing; health economics methodology; health equity; health financing; health inequality; social determinants of health |
| Zeb Aurangzeb | PhD | Economic evaluations; cost-effectiveness, cost-utility and budget impact analyses; pharmaco-economic analysis; real-world evaluation of cancer drugs; health technology assessments; health financing and budgeting |
| Meghan Azad | MSc, PhD | Developmental origins of health and disease; infant nutrition; breastfeeding; breast milk composition; child health; allergic disease; asthma; obesity; and birth cohorts |
| Marissa Becker | MSc, PhD | Infectious diseases; HIV/AIDS; global public health; vulnerable populations and program science. |
| Andrea Blanchard | MSc | Global public health; health equity for women and children, community-based and primary health care approaches within health systems and societal contexts, using a mixed-methods interdisciplinary lens in collaboration with global research, policy, and implementation partners in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. |
| Clara Bohm | MSc, PhD | characterizing effect exercise and physical activity on functional status in kidney disease and dialysis; improving person-centred care and quality of care in hemodialysis; clinical trials; mixed methods; patient engagement |
| Songul Bozat-Emre | MSc, PhD | Pharmacoepidemiology, vaccine effectiveness and safety, severe outcomes associated with COVID-19, unintended impacts of COVID-19, harms associated with substance use, and population-based administrative data |
| Douglas Brownridge | MSc, PhD self-funded | Epidemiology of family violence |
| Robert Chase | MSc, PhD co-supervision | Occupational health , precarious work, musculoskeletal injuries; refugee and immigrant health; qualitative research methods; addiction and mental health. in particular, Vidaview Life Story Board, methods in research and counselling applications |
| Malcolm Doupe | PhD | Health services research; aging and the use of health care services; Implementation science |
| Michelle Driedger | MSc, PhD | Metis health; decolonizing methods; public health and health risk communication; vaccine-hesitancy; doctor-patient conversations; qualitative methods; knowledge transfer in situations characterized by uncertainty; critical social science |
| Karen Duncan | MSc, PhD | Family financial and economic security; family/friend caregiving; consumer insolvency; valuation of time; work-family interrelationships |
| Brenda Elias | MSc, PhD | Indigenous health; Social Determinants of Health, Public Health, Survey Research Methods, Mix Methods (qualitative/quantitative) |
| Faran Emmanuel | MSc | HIV/AIDS surveillance, HIV/AIDS Prevention programs, Monitoring and evaluation systems, street children, Universal Health coverage |
| Shiva Halli | MSc, PhD self-funded | International health especially migration as a risk factor in the spread of HIV/STDs infection; immigrants’ health in Canada; violence against women; international demography, reproductive health. |
| Amani Hamad | MSc, PhD | Administrative data research; population data science; data curation; maternal and child health; mental health; observational studies; pharmacoepidemiology |
| Ana Hanlon-Dearman | MSc | Childhood developmental disabilities, specifically FASD and Autism Spectrum Disorder |
| Andrew Hatala | MSc, PhD | Medical anthropology; youth resilience and well-being; Indigenous health; transcultural psychiatry; culture and spirituality; qualitative health research; community-based research |
| Margaret Haworth-Brockman | MSc | Sex- and gender-analyses, intersectionality, women’s health issues and related policies, perinatal care, knowledge translation, public health, infectious diseases |
| Depeng Jiang | MSc, PhD | Biostatistical methods and application; latent variable analysis and structure equation model (SEM); longitudinal data analysis and multilevel model; Statistical models for behavioral data and computational methods. |
| Esyllt W. Jones | PhD | Multiple sclerosis, clinical epidemiology, comorbidity, pediatric MS, health services research, patient-reported outcomes |
| Christine Kelly | MSc, PhD | Home care; care workforce; disability studies; gender; aging |
| Lisa Lazarus | MSc | Global public health; community-based research; HIV/STBBIs; social sciences |
| Shuangbo Liu | MSc | Acute coronary syndrome outcomes, cardiovascular diseases, women’s heart health, clinical epidemiology, and health services |
| Leigh McClarty | MSc | Global public health; HIV/STBBI; Program Science; public health programming for equity and impact |
| Lyle McKinnon | MSc, PhD | HIV prevention. Mucosal immunology and immune-regulation; epidemiology of HIV in key populations in Kenya, South Africa, Uganda and Thailand, STIs, microbiome and vaccine responsiveness. Combining biomedical and epidemiological analysis of HIV/STI risk |
| Deborah McPhail | MSc, PhD | Health inequity; critical obesity studies; qualitative and feminist research methods; social theories of health and illness; gender studies / gender and health; critical race theory; colonialism in health and illness; class structures and health inequalities |
| Javier Mignone | MSc, PhD self-funded | Social determinants of health; Indigenous health; intercultural health; mental health; program evaluation; health policy |
| Mina Nouredanesh | MSc, PhD | Machine learning for healthcare; Aging; Multimodal approaches for early diagnosis of complex age-related conditions; Assistive technologies and user-centered rehabilitation; wearable sensing systems, physiological signal and medical image processing |
| Caroline Piotrowski | MSc, PhD | Trauma and resilience in children and youth; Sibling relationships; Posttraumatic growth; Trauma-informed care; Mixed methods |
| Claudio Rigatto | MSc, PhD | Telemonitoring in high-risk CKD, Biomarkers of cardiovascular disease in CKD, Biomarkers of AKI, Development and validation of risk prediction models in kidney disease |
| Kerstin Roger | MSc, PhD | Health and aging; caregiving and family/community interface with healthcare; intercultural determinants of health and wellness; death and dying; qualitative/mixed methods |
| Razvan Romanescu | MSc, PhD | Statistical inference for genetic data; mathematical infectious disease models; newtork models for epidemic spread; biostatistics |
| Kelly Russell | MSc, PhD | Sport-related injury; traumatic brain injuries; childhood injury; intimate partner violence and brain injury; epidemiology |
| Deepa Sankaran | MSc, PhD | Maternal, neonatal and child health and nutrition, public health nutrition, implementation science, global health |
| Robert Schroth | MSc, PhD | Early childhood caries, early childhood oral health, vitamin D, oral health, Indigenous child health, program evaluation, dental epidemiology, access to care, Canadian Dental Care Plan evaluation, integration of oral health into primary care |
| Souradet Shaw | MSc, PhD | Sexually transmitted and bloodborne infections; global public health; social epidemiology; public health surveillance; vulnerable populations |
| Shahin Shooshtari | MSc, PhD | Health and wellbeing in intellectual and developmental disabilities; health and aging; health services research; survey research |
| Kathryn Sibley | MSc, PhD | Knowledge translation, implementation science, aging, rehabilitation, exercise |
| Tamara Taillieu | MSc, PhD | Mental health; substance use; child maltreatment; family violence; intimate partner violence; maternal and child health; population health |
| Navdeep Tangri | MSc, PhD | Clinical risk prediction, chronic kidney disease, epidemiology, dialysis |
| Mahmoud Torabi | MSc, PhD | Biostatistics; cluster detection; longitudinal data analysis; small area estimation; spatial statistics; survival data analysis; infectious disease models |
| Marcelo Urquia | MSc, PhD | Immigration and ethnic diversity; family health; maternal and child health; perinatal epidemiology; domestic violence; health equity; gender equity; population health |
| Reynold Washington | MSc, PhD | Infectious Diseases (HIV/AIDS, TB), Health Services Training systems, Public Health Surveillance: India |
| Jennifer Yamamoto | MSc | Diabetes in pregnancy, specifically understanding how diabetes technologies can be leveraged to improve pregnancy outcomes for people living with diabetes and their children |
| Ryan Zarychanski | MSc, PhD | Randomized controlled trials, platform trials, Bayesian statistics, clinical reseach, systematic reviews/meta-analysis, anticoagulation, hematologic aspects of critical illness, transfusion medicine |
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