Harriet MacMillan, M.D., M.Sc., FRCPC

Affiliation

Departments of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences,
Offord Centre for Child Studies

Mailing Address

McMaster University 
Faculty of Health Sciences 
Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation 
Chedoke Site, CH-P2 
Hamilton, Ontario L8N 3Z5 

Tel: (905) 905-521-2100, ext. 74287
Fax: (905) 905-383-8068
E-mail: macmilnh@mcmaster.ca

Appointments, cross appointments, fellowships

  • Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences
  • Joint Member, Department of Pediatrics
  • Associate Member, Dept of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics
  • Associate Member, Department of Psychology
  • Member, Offord Centre for Child Studies
  • Member, Child Advocacy and Assessment Program

Research Interests

Dr. MacMillan is a pediatrician and child psychiatrist conducting research in the area of violence against children and women.  Other interests include building research capacity in the areas of women's health and Aboriginal health. 

Publications

  1. MacMillan,H.L., Jamieson, E., Wathen, C.N., Boyle, M., Walsh, C., Omura, J., et al. (2007). Development of a policy-relevant child maltreatment research strategy. The Milbank Quarterly, 85, 337-74.
  2. Walsh, C.A., Ploeg, J., Lohfeld, L., Horne, J., MacMillan, H.L., & Lai, D. (2007). Violence across the lifespan: Interconnections among forms of abuse as described by marginalized Canadian elders and their caregivers. British Journal of Social Work.
  3. Simpson, S., Thomas, C., van der Linden, M., MacMillan, H.L., van der Wouden, J., & Butler, C. (2007). Identification of children in the first four years of life for early treatment for otitis media with effusion. Cochrane Database Syst Rev.,1, CD004163.
  4. Gutmanis, I., Beynon, C,. Tutty, L., Wathen, C.N., & MacMillan, H.L. (2007). Factors influencing identification of and response to intimate partner violence: A survey of physicians and nurses. BioMed Central Public Health, 7,12.
  5. Tang, B., Jamieson, E., Boyle, M., Libby, A.M., Gafni, A., & MacMillan, H.L. (2006). The influence of child abuse on the pattern of expenditures in women’s adult health service utilization in Ontario, Canada. Social Science and Medicine, 63, 1711-1719.

 

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