Research@McMaster: Research Centres N-Z

Research Centres
& Institutes: N-Z

Research Centres A-C

Research Centres D-M

Research Centres N-Z

Research Facilities A-F

Research Facilities G-I

Research Facilities J-M

Research Facilities N-R

Research Facilities S-Z

Comprehensive List
of Centres & Facilities

National Networks of
Centres of Excellence

Ontario Centres
of Excellence




Offord Centre for Child Studies		The Offord Centre for Child Studies is researching why some young people are able to overcome enormous obstacles and grow up to be well-adjusted and productive adults whereas others cannot. The Centre is also developing, implementing and assessing a number of promising, cost-effective, early interventions to treat and prevent destructive emotional and behavioural problems in our children and youth.

Origins Institute		The Institute conducts transdisciplinary research, runs conferences and workshops, and offers positions through a postdoctoral programme.It also offers the Origins Research Specialization curriculum for our students to complement studies in their 'home' department through 6 themes: The Origin of Space-Time;The Origins of Structure in the Cosmos; The Origins of Elements;The Origins of Life; The Origins of Species; and The Origin of Humanity. Origins also offers free colloquiums and public lecture series and brings to campus cutting-edge researchers and world-reknowned speakers to meet with our students and engage the public.

Population Health Research Institute		The Population Health Research Institute (PHRI) provides a forum for the conduct of large international clinical trials, population health studies, and studies in outcomes research. While its primary role is to provide leadership in international health research, the PHRI also plays an active role in the education of individual researchers, and in building capacity internationally for the development of global research programs.

R. Samuel McLaughlin Centre for Gerontological Health Research		The R. Samuel McLaughlin Centre for Gerontological Health Research conducts comprehensive and leading-edge studies on aging and health to better inform family physicians and others who care for our seniors. Such research helps us to better understand the aging brain and dementia, as well as enabling us to determine ways in which to keep seniors active so that they can manage their own lives.Research is conducted in four specific areas: health promotion and disease prevention; the aging brain; aging, mobility and participation; and pharmacology and therapeutics.

Research Centre for the Promotion of Women's Health		The Research Centre for the Promotion of Women's Health works to establish a basis for new, community-generated approaches to the promotion of women's health; to facilitate strong ties between academic researchers and community groups; to facilitate action-based and participatory research as a means for women to explore their individual and collective health and wellness concerns and to engage in health promotion strategies to address the issues they define; to train graduate students in interdisciplinary research on women's health; and to act as a resource centre for researchers in the field of women's health promotion.

Research Institute for Quantitative Studies in Economics & Population		The Research Institute for Quantitative Studies in Economics and Population is an interdisciplinary program based in the Faculty of Social Sciences. Its purpose is to encourage and facilitate faculty research in economics and other areas of the social sciences, with special emphasis on the analysis of population and the relationship between population change and changes in the economy and society.

Statistics Canada Research Data Centre		Housed in Mills Memorial Library, the Research Data Centre at McMaster provides access to Statistics Canada master survey files at no charge to researchers -- the first time that such access has been possible without working in a Statistics Canada office.

Steel Research Centre		The Steel Research Centre develops research leading to commercially relevant new approaches to ironmaking, steelmaking process control, waste processing, steel product design and metal forming technologies. It also trains highly qualified personnel to provide the means of transferring new technology to the steel industry and develops continuing education for steel industry engineers to enhance the receptor capacity for innovation.

Surgical Outcomes Research Centre		The Surgical Outcomes Research Centre (SOURCE) was founded in 1996 when a need was recognized to increase the amount and quality of surgical outcomes. SOURCE currently has 39 members from four Hamilton hospitals, and is providing research assistant resources for start-up projects for its members.Other SOURCE activities include an evidence-based surgery article series published in the Canadian Journal of Surgery and the evidence-based surgery training workshops.