Michael Wilson

Overview

Mike the Scientific Director of the McMaster Health Forum, an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Evidence and Impact at McMaster University. His research is focused on harnessing and contextualizing the best-available evidence along with citizen values and stakeholder insights to strengthen health and social systems. Mike and the Forum’s scientific team produce timely and demand-driven contextualized evidence syntheses that address pressing health and social system issues faced by decision-makers. This includes evidence syntheses produced within days (e.g., rapid evidence profiles or living evidence profiles), weeks (e.g., rapid syntheses that combine policy, system and/or political analyses) and months (e.g., systematic reviews or living evidence syntheses that are updated and enhanced over time). Mike also leads projects designed to spark action by convening citizen panels to identify citizens’ values and preferences and stakeholder dialogues to support collective problem solving among government policymakers, system and organizational leaders, professional leaders and citizens.

Affiliations

• Associate Professor
• Scientific Director of the McMaster Health Forum
• Associate Professor, Department of Health Evidence and Impact (HEI)

Education

• BHSc, McMaster University
• PhD, McMaster University