Characteristics associated with planned home birth under midwifery care in Ontario, Canada: a population-based cohort study (2012-2018)
Hébert V, Muraca GM, Reitsma A, Nguyen F, Darling EK. Midwifery. 2026; Aug 20 [Epub ahead of print].
ICES McMaster
ICES McMaster is a joint collaboration of ICES and McMaster University with its academic hospitals, Hamilton Health Sciences and St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton. ICES McMaster officially launched on June 20, 2016 in the Health Sciences Centre on the main McMaster campus in Hamilton. As of April 2026, ICES McMaster transitioned to a virtual site.
Key Contacts at McMaster
ICES McMaster comprises a community of local scientists, staff and students, and facilitates collaborative research opportunities across many disciplines and with its partner hospitals.
Site Director: Aaron Jones
Staff Scientist: Richard Perez
Office Address
- Virtual site
Mailing Address
- Virtual site
Phone
Grants
Grant
2026 – 2029
Building evidence for children and families experiencing extensive needs: Embedded health science to strengthen service planning and population understanding
- Granting Agency
- Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS)
- Principal Investigators
- Edwards J
- Co-Investigators
- Wahi G, Georgiades S, Drmic I, Penner M, D’Angiulli A, Bennett T, Georgiades K, Fuller A, Duncan L, Gonzalez A, Anderson K, Sheikh F
- Grant Type
- Early Career Award
- Grant Amount
- $150,000
Grant
2026 – 2027
The Epidemiology of Pediatric Intensive Care in Canada (EPIC-CAN) population-based cohort study
- Granting Agency
- Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS)
- Principal Investigators
- Zorko D
- Co-Investigators
- Choong K, Edwards J, Chanchlani R
- Grant Type
- Early Career Award
- Grant Amount
- $50,000
Grant
2025 – 2030
Stress and polarization: The effects of political competition on personal and democratic health
- Granting Agency
- Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
- Principal Investigators
- Mansell J
- Co-Investigators
- Friesen A, Baker M, Lenage A, Grant AM
- Grant Type
- Operating
- Grant Amount
- $397,054
Grant
2025 – 2028
Generating evidence to enhance equity-focused prevention and care for obstetric trauma
- Granting Agency
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- Principal Investigators
- Muraca G
- Co-Investigators
- D’Souza RD, Geoffrion R, Rajasingham M
- Grant Type
- Operating Grant
- Grant Amount
- $150,000
Grant
2025 – 2028
Mode of operative delivery in the second stage of labour and risk of subsequent spontaneous preterm birth
- Granting Agency
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- Principal Investigators
- Muraca G, Kirubarajan A
- Co-Investigators
- Anderson LN, Boutin A, Darling EK, D’Souza RD, JKS, Lisonkova S, Malhamé I, McDonald SD, Mehrabadi A, Metcalfe AL, Shah P
- Grant Type
- Project Grant
- Grant Amount
- $348,074
Grant
2025 – 2028
Improving risk identification and triage in psychosocial oncology: Development of a clinical decision-making tool using artificial intelligence
- Granting Agency
- Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation
- Principal Investigators
- Zhang K
- Co-Investigators
- Saha A, Mukherjee S, Bryant-Lukosius D, Levine O, Pink J
- Grant Type
- Project Grant
- Grant Amount
- $96,743
Grant
2025 – 2027
Management of term pregnancies with suspected large for gestational age: cohort study using real world data in Ontario, Canada
- Granting Agency
- Association of Ontario Midwives (AOM)
- Principal Investigators
- Krueger S
- Co-Investigators
- Supervisor: Muraca G
- Grant Type
- Mentored Midwifery Research Grant
- Grant Amount
- $10,540
Grant
2024 – 2027
Identifying opportunities for increasing access to palliative care across the health care system
- Granting Agency
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- Principal Investigators
- Howard M
- Co-Investigators
- Seow H, Pereira J, Baker A, Jaakkimainen L, Gallagher E
- Grant Type
- Project Grant
- Grant Amount
- $416,924
Grant
2024 – 2027
SERENE: Supportive, Evidence-informed, Responsive, and Equity-oriented prevention-and-care model to reduce the incidence and NEgative impacts of severe maternal morbidity
- Granting Agency
- Juravinski Research Institute
- Principal Investigators
- Muraca G
- Co-Investigators
- D’Souza R, Jack S, Frey B, Green S
- Grant Type
- Other
- Grant Amount
- $1,902,682
Awards & Recognitions
Awards & Recognition
05/12/2025
Ontario Health System Quality and Innovation Award
2025: Dr. Gina Agarwal developed and leads the CP@clinic program designed to keep low-income older adults healthy at home and reduce avoidable 911 calls that was recognized with a health system innovation award. Community Paramedicine at Clinic (CP@clinic) won the Ontario Health System Quality and Innovation Award (OHSQI) in the Population Health Impact Category for 2025. This award is presented by Ontario Health, the Ontario Medical Association, the Ontario Hospitals Association, and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health.
Awards & Recognition
05/09/2025
Ontario HIV Treatment Network Cohort Study Chair, 2025-29
2025: Awarded to Dr. Lawrence Mbuagbaw. The OCS Chair Award recognizes and supports a leading researcher to provide strategic scientific leadership, strengthen collaboration, and advance community-engaged HIV research within the Ontario HIV Treatment Network Cohort Study.
Awards & Recognition
20/06/2025
Rising Star Award
2025: Awarded to Dr. Giulia Muraca in recognition of achievements and potential indicative of a trajectory to become a research leader in the field of reproductive, perinatal and pediatric epidemiology from the Society for Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiologic Research (SPER).
Awards & Recognition
31/03/2025
CAHR-CANFAR Excellence in Research Award, 2025
2025: Awarded to Dr. Lawrence Mbuagbaw. The CAHR–CANFAR Excellence in Research Award recognizes outstanding contributions to HIV research in Canada, honouring individuals whose innovative, high-impact work has advanced scientific knowledge, improved care and outcomes for people living with HIV, and strengthened the national HIV research community.
Awards & Recognition
30/11/2024
The Anne and Neil McArthur Research Award, 2024
2024: Awarded to Dr. Lawrence Mbuagbaw. The Anne and Neil McArthur Research Award recognizes exceptional contributions to health research that advance knowledge, improve patient care, and demonstrate leadership and innovation in addressing critical health challenges.
Awards & Recognition
24/08/2023
Alvarenga Prize
2023: Awarded by the Swedish Medical Association to Dr. Giulia Muraca in recognition of a paper of important clinical value for the article: “Risk of postpartum hemorrhage with increasing first stage of labor duration”.
Awards & Recognition
03/05/2023
Canadian National Perinatal Research Meeting Early Career Researcher Award
2023: Awarded to Dr. Giulia Muraca.
Awards & Recognition
17/11/2022
Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Vulnerable Individuals in Primary Care
2022: Many Canadians face challenges getting primary health care. Even when care is available, vulnerable people can have difficulties accessing it-for example, older adults or those with disabilities may find it difficult to travel to a doctor. As Canada Research Chair in Vulnerable Individuals in Primary Care, Dr. Gina Agarwal is trying to ensure that vulnerable individuals can get the health care they need, where and when they need it.
Awards & Recognition
30/12/2021
Order of Canada
2021: Dr. Mehran Anvari was named an Officer of the Order of Canada for his exemplary leadership in the innovative field of telerobotic surgery.
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