Marcy McCall MacBain

Dr. Marcy McCall MacBain

Founder and Chair

Dr. Marcy McCall MacBain is a Founder, Director, and Chair of the McCall MacBain Scholarships at McGill. She is also the Vice-Chair of the McCall MacBain Foundation.

Originally from Huron County, Ontario, she holds a BKin (Hons) from McMaster University, an MSc in International Health Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a DPhil in Evidence-Based Health Care from the University of Oxford. She also holds an honorary doctorate from Monash University, Australia, and an honorary degree from McMaster University, Canada.

Marcy is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Evidence-based Medicine and the Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford, where she supervises students in the MSc of Evidence-based Health Care program and has developed online education tools to improve access to health care.

Marcy’s academic areas of interest include the effective management and prevention of chronic diseases, especially applying mixed methodologies to improve the knowledge base and implementation of self-care health strategies. She has previously consulted with the World Health Organization in Geneva on chronic diseases and health school policies.

She serves as a member of the Geneva Committee of Human Rights Watch and is a recipient of the Bynum Tudor Fellowship at Kellogg College, Oxford and of the McMaster Alumni Gallery Award.

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