Team

Anthony Musiwa

Anthony Musiwa is a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact at McMaster University. In his postdoctoral research, he is engaging healthcare policymakers and practitioners, community health workers, traditional leaders, representatives of local stakeholder groups, and adult parents to understand how fathers help pregnant women to access antenatal care within their cultures in rural Zimbabwe. The research will inform the development of culturally appropriate strategies to enhance the role of fathers in supporting pregnant women to access their preferred forms of antenatal care in rural Zimbabwe. Anthony completed his PhD in Social Work at McGill University.

Jessyca Matos-Sylva

Jessyca is a Master’s student in the Health Research Methodology program at McMaster University with a medical background from Brazil. She is currently working on reporting guideline for methodological studies in health research.

Agatha Nyambi

Agatha is a PhD student in the Health Research Methodology program at McMaster University. Her thesis will be focused on assessing the current data collection methodologies used in HIV research, particularly in minority or “hard to reach” populations.

Naharin Sultana Anni

Naharin Sultana Anni is a global health Ph.D. student. She graduated from the University of Dhaka with an MBBS and Yonsei University with an MPH in Clinical Epidemiology. Her current research focus is infectious diseases, particularly COVID-19 and HPV.

Jhalok Ronjan Talukdar

Jhalok is a PhD candidate in the Health Research Methodology (HRM) program at McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. His PhD research aims to contribute to better assessing the potential harms and benefits related to carbohydrate intake.

Maya Stevens-Uninsky

Maya is a PhD student in the Global Health program at McMaster University. Her research focuses on adolescent sexual and reproductive health, with a focus on decolonizing evaluation methodologies, and community-based research. She has worked with not-for-profit, private sector, and government organizations to deliver results-based health programming for high-needs populations, with particular expertise in knowledge translation, sustainable development, and innovative health technology. She has a Masters in Public Health from the University of Cape Town.

Michael Cristian Garcia

Cristian is a medical student at the University of Toronto. He completed his MSc in the Health Research Methodology program at McMaster University. He is working on a mixed-methods study to produce guidelines for studies reporting on the prevalence of drug-resistant HIV.

Clemence Ongolo-Zogo

Clémence Ongolo Zogo is a medical student at the University of Toronto. She recently completely her MSc in Health Research Methodology at McMaster University. She worked on the development and use of local evidence mapping tools to better understand the burden of emergent diseases, identify research gaps and assess country-specific barriers and facilitators to knowledge translation.

Daeria Lawson

Daeria is a PhD student in the Health Research Methodology program at McMaster University. She is investigating how methodological studies in health research are conducted and reported. She is leading the development of a guideline (METRIC) to streamline how these studies are reported.

Nadia Rehman

Nadia is a MSc student in the Health Research Methodology program at McMaster University. She is working on unifying the definitions of retention in HIV care.

Tonya MacDonald

Tonya is a PhD student in the Health Research Methodology program at McMaster University, Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University, and Master Lecturer in the School of Midwifery at Laurentian University. She is working on community-based research that engages the community to identify both challenges, solutions, and opportunities to improve maternal health and well-being, and ultimately reduce maternal mortality and morbidity. She is particularly interested in research among and with youth regarding their lived experiences and perspectives of maternal health in their communities.

Stephen Noorduyn

Stephen is a PhD student in the Health Research Methodology program at McMaster University. He is interested in drug effectiveness research and disease epidemiology. His thesis will focus on the effectiveness of biologic therapies for treatment of severe asthma in Canada.

Aisha Barkhad

Aisha is a Ph.D. candidate at McMaster University’s Interdisciplinary Global Health Program. Aisha holds a BSc. degree in Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, and a MSc. degree in Epidemiology and Public Health. With her knowledge and expertise on host-pathogen interactions at a molecular level, and the transmission of vector-borne infectious diseases at the population level, Aisha aims to use her learnings to compile evidence on the ecological, biological, and social rudiments of dengue virus epidemiology in Latin America and the Caribbean to contribute to the growing body of research on the effects of climate change on disease emergence and re-emergence in low- and middle-income settings.

Tatyana Graham

Tatyana Graham is an MSc candidate in the Health Research Methodology program at McMaster University. Her research focuses on filling in the gaps of health research in the Black community in Ontario. She aims to improve health equity in preventative medicine and implementation science.

Ahlam Alotaibi

Ahlam is a PhD student in the Health Research Methodology at McMaster University. She is investigating the effect of dental and periodontal treatment on glycemic control in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus.

Roger Kou

Roger is completing his Masters in Public health at McMaster University. His thesis will focus on assessing the data reported in COVID-19 trials under a health-equity lens.

Jeslyn Chen

Jeslyn is completing her MSc in Global Health at McMaster University. She is examining cultural safety in Canadian healthcare to identify its strengths and implications for future policies.