Skip to main content
Skip to McMaster Navigation Skip to Site Navigation Skip to main content
McMaster logo
Department of Political Science

Faculty of Social Sciences

Social Policy (including health policy)

The department offers a cluster of expertise in Social Policy, spanning the fields of health, education, pensions, social assistance, and labour policies.

Faculty members study policy in both the developing and developed world, and often take a comparative approach to understanding why jurisdictions choose different solutions to the same social policy problems.

The following members in this cluster are involved in a variety of interdisciplinary social policy research centres and groups across campus:

This includes the Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis (CHEPA) and the research program on Social and Economic Dimensions of an Aging Population (SEDAP)

photo of Stephen McBride

Stephen McBride

Professor | Canada Research Chair in Public Policy and Globalization

Stephen McBride is a Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Public Policy and Globalization.

photo of Michelle L. Dion

Michelle L. Dion

Ph.D. Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel HIll, 2002

Professor | Senator Wm. McMaster Chair in Gender & Methodology

Michelle Dion works on social policy, including pensions, health, and social assistance in Latin America.

photo of Katherine Boothe

Katherine Boothe

Associate Professor

Katherine Boothe focuses on health policy in advanced industrial democracies, particularly pharmaceutical policy in Canada, Australia and the UK.

photo of Peter Graefe

Peter Graefe

Associate Professor

Peter Graefe works on Intergovernmental Relations in Social Policy, Social Economy and Social Assistance.

photo of Charlotte Yates

Charlotte Yates

Professor Emeritus

Charlotte Yates work on Labour Market Policy.

Health Policy field:

Julia Abelson and John Lavis