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Kidney Disease Trial Gets Major Funding

The ACHIEVE study, an international collaboration between PHRI and The George Institute for Global Health in Australia, has been awarded...

ANNEXA-4 Findings Released at ISC and in NEJM

Findings from PHRI’s ANNEXA-4 trial were released on Feb. 7, 2019 at the International Stroke Conference in Hawaii, while simultaneously...

Chanchlani Global Health Research Award Lecture

A special PHRI lecture was presented on Feb. 5, 2019 at Population Health Research Institute by the 2019 recipient of...

Remote Monitoring Technology

“Health technology is only as good as the system that supports it,” noted PHRI Senior Scientist Jeff Healey at today’s...

AHA Stroke Investigator Award to Dr. Shoamanesh

Ashkan Shoamanesh, Scientist at PHRI, has been selected to receive the prestigious American Heart/Stroke Association Robert G. Siekert New Investigator...

PHRI in AHA’s top research advances of 2018

Research by scientists at Population Health Research and McMaster University has made the list of American Heart Association’s top heart...

Your postal code may affect your health

Where you live in Canada may play a role in your risk of major diseases like cardiovascular disease, diabetes and...

Sleep & health study garners international media attention

What do leading American business magazines, Forbes and Inc., the UK newspaper, The Independent, and millennial website, Mental Floss, have in...

Population Health Lecture 2019: Genetic Basis of Human Health

8th International Population Health Research Institute (PHRI) Lecture in Population Health Sciences Professor Mark Lathrop, PhD, Scientific Director – McGill...

PHRI in top 1% cited research

Five researchers at PHRI have been included in Highly Cited Researchers 2018 – more than a third of the 17 McMaster...

Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars

Dr. Guillaume Paré, Director, Genetics and Molecular Epidemiology Laboratory (GMEL) at PHRI, was formally welcomed this month into the The...

WHF Salim Yusuf Emerging Leaders Programme

The World Heart Federation (WHF) Emerging Leaders Programme launched by Dr. Salim Yusuf – Executive Director of Population Health Research...

CMAJ features patient engagement in HIP ATTACK

PHRI’s trial, HIP ATTACK [Hip Fracture Accelerated Surgical Treatment and Care Track] is featured in this month’s special supplement of CMAJ:...

FDA, EMA and Health Canada indications based on COMPASS

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the European Medicines Agency (EMA), and Health Canada have new indications for the...

PHRI Research Day 2018 video