Thesis Supervision

Data Centre Important Note:
PhD Applicants are encouraged to contact either the HIS Program Coordinator, or one of the faculty members listed below to discuss program fit, and ensure that their research interests can be appropriately supervised in the HIS PhD Program. Any such discussions should be reported in the Statement of Research Interest submitted by the applicant with their Admission package.

  • Isola Ajiferuke (organization of health information)
  • Kelly Anderson (public mental health, health services research, social determinants)
  • Laurel Austin (risk and decision making, telemedicine, risk communication)
  • Kristen Bishop (disability, aging, Multiple Sclerosis, Constructivist Grounded Theory)
  • Richard Booth (digital health, informatics)
  • Jacquelyn Burkell (creditability assessment, human-computer interface design, decision-making heuristics, cognition on information use)
  • Anna Garnett (digital health, health services, gerontology, caregivers)
  • Mark Goldszmidt (medical communication and teaching)
  • Nicole Haggerty (electronic health records, health information technologies, public health information) *Not accepting PhD students until 2026
  • Jodi Hall (trauma and resistence, critical appraisal, criminalization, reproductive justice, health equity)
  • Stewart Harris (diabetes and hypoglycemia research)
  • Abbas Jessani (global health, knowledge translation)
  • Andrew Johnson (information processing speed in Parkinson's Disease, psychometric technology)
  • Tarun Katapally (citizen science, data science, digital health, digital epidemiology, global health, health systems research, human-computer interaction, human-centred artificial intelligence, virtual/extended, augmented reality, precision medicine)
  • Susan Knabe (medicalization and the media)
  • Anita Kothari (knowledge translation, public and community health)
  • Roula Kteily-Hawa (HIV prevention, resilience, mental health, stigma reduction, gender-based violence, health promotion)
  • Daniel Lizotte (machine learning, informatics)
  • Joy MacDermid (clinical measurement, evidence synthesis)
  • Tara Mantler (women's health, equity)
  • Carrie Marshall (mental health, psychosocial health)
  • Pamela McKenzie (health information seeking)
  • Elysee Nouvet (global health)
  • Jessica Polzer (gender, sexuality and women's studies)
  • Anabel Quan-Haase (social media and health, health information seeking, community, social network analysis)
  • Joanna Redden (datafication, politics, governance and social justice)
  • Umair Rehman (entertainment computing, human-centred artici
  • Debbie Rudman (occupational science and aging)
  • Kamran Sedig (human-computer interaction)
  • Jacob Shelley (law and ethics, public health)
  • Sharon Sliwinski (visual culture, political theory)
  • Luke Stark (human-computer interaction, science and technology)
  • Nadine Wathen (health information seeking, knowledge translation)
  • Fiona Webster (chronic health conditions, gender, ethnography)
  • Lloy Wylie (health systems research)