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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

Arnold L. Johnson Memorial Lectureship

October 30 and 31, 2018 Professor Robert A. Harrington Arthur L. Bloomfield Professor of Medicine Chairman of the Department of...

THE LANCET Publishes Dairy Results of PURE Study

THE LANCET has published the paper, Association of dairy intake with cardiovascular disease and mortality in 21 countries from five...

PHRI Research Day 2018 a Resounding Success

Collaboration was in the air, and the halls abuzz with conversations, during the 2018 PHRI Research Day held at the...

ESC 2018 Presentations by PHRI Investigators

Referring to the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress in Munich, Germany August 25-29, 2018, Population Health Research Institute was...

Richard Whitlock Receives Mentorship Award

Dr. Richard Whitlock, has received an Associate Faculty Mentorship Award for his work mentoring and supervising graduate students at McMaster...

ESC Lectureship to Stuart Connolly

Dr. Stuart Connolly, Principal Investigator – Arrhythmias Program, Population Health Research Institute, received the ESC Geoffrey Rose Lectureship at the...

THE LANCET Publishes Sodium Results of PURE Study

THE LANCET medical journal has published the paper, “Urinary sodium excretion, blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, and mortality: a community-level prospective...