Our research in this area aims to understand the social determination of health and the brilliance of people and communities surviving and thriving in the face of structural violence.

Led by Robin Lennox and Claire Bodkin

Our research studies novel hospital and community-based health interventions aimed at improving the health outcomes and healthcare experiences of people who use drugs.

Led by Robin Lennox

The Full Scope Generalist Medical Education (FSG Med Ed) Research Lab is grounded in the foundational idea that education matters. From this perspective, the FSG Med Ed Lab pursues studies that aim to emphasize, elucidate, and improve the relationship between health professional training and the healthcare delivered to patients and communities.

Led by Lawrence Grierson

Health TAPESTRY is a community-based program, led by primary care teams, that creates connections between trained health care volunteers, interprofessional health care teams, novel technology and community engagement through improved system navigation.

Led by David Price, Dee Mangin, Doug Oliver and Jessica Gaber

Through the interdisciplinary field of medical humanities, we learn about the wider historical and cultural content that health care operates in. The History of Medicine and Medical Humanities Research Portal was developed to help gather resources for researchers, health professionals and the general public.

Led by Ellen Amster

The McMaster University Sentinel and Information Collaboration (MUSIC), is a practice-based research and learning network (PBRLN). MUSIC facilitates high quality research on topics that are important to primary care and the patients it serves.

Led by Michelle Howard

Long-term care (LTC) residents are at risk of receiving unwanted and non-beneficial treatment because of errors related to consent. The PoET Southwest Spread Project aims to reduce these consent-related errors and provide care that is in line with the resident’s values and wishes.

Led by Henry Siu

The Primary Care in Late Life research program aims to improve the experience of people with serious and life-limiting illness by studying patterns of health care near the end of life and integrating palliative approaches in primary health care and family medicine.

Led by Michelle Howard

Our research work in prison health is aimed at preventing incarceration, improving health care in prisons and supporting the continuity of health care on release. Our work in this area involves partnership, collaboration, and consultation with persons with lived experience of incarceration, and other stakeholders and researchers.

Led by Fiona Kouyoumdjian

Our research enhances patient experience and improves the quality of professional life for clinicians by focusing on socially and ethically complex areas of primary care, such as prenatal testing for disability, cannabis consumption in pregnancy, or medical assistance in dying.

Led by Meredith Vanstone

The Department of Family Medicine has partnered with PEACH Health Ontario (Partnerships for Environmental Action by Clinicians and communities for Hospitals/health care facilities) in its efforts to support climate action within the health care system.

Led by Myles Sergeant

TAPER brings together pharmacists, family doctors and patients to safely reduce the number of medications a person is taking based on the priorities the patient has set for their own health.

Led by Dee Mangin

The VIP Research Lab aims to improve health by facilitating equitable access and linkage to primary care for vulnerable populations in Canada and internationally. VIP health equity research projects focus on improving inclusion and equity for those with social, economic, and cultural challenges due to income or race and work towards global justice through global health research leadership.

Led by Gina Agarwal

The Division’s main overarching theme of research and quality improvement (QI) excellence will be on primary-level palliative care across different settings of care and its relationship with specialist-level palliative care. The goal is to understand the role of primary-level palliative care in creating health system capacity to equitably address all the palliative needs of a community and population.

Key Contact: Ashlinder Gill