Harriet MacMillan

Dr. MacMillan, a member of the Offord Centre for Child Studies, is a Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, and Pediatrics at McMaster University with memberships in the Departments of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Psychology. She is a graduate of Queen’s Medical School and completed a pediatrics residency at the Hospital for Sick Children followed by a psychiatry residency and Masters degree in clinical epidemiology and biostatistics at McMaster University. She completed fellowship training at Children’s Hospital in Boston and in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. MacMillan holds the David R. (Dan) Offord Chair in Child Studies, and is principal investigator of a five-year grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to study the development of an intervention to reduce intimate partner violence within the context of an existing home visitation program – the Nurse Family Partnership. Beginning in 1993 until 2004, Dr. MacMillan was the founding Director of the Child Advocacy and Assessment Program (CAAP) at McMaster Children’s Hospital, a multidisciplinary program committed to reducing the burden of suffering associated with family violence.

Dr. MacMillan’s research focuses on the epidemiology of family violence, including prevention of child maltreatment and intimate partner violence Her work has been supported by several awards including a Faculty Scholar Award from the William T. Grant Foundation, a Wyeth CIHR Clinical Research Chair in Women’s Mental Health and fellowships from the Ontario Mental Health Foundation.

Email:macmilnh@mcmaster.ca