AEC Fellows: Harriet MacMillan

Harriet MacMillan McMaster University, Canada website Email: macmilnh@mcmaster.ca

Harriet MacMillan, MD, MSc, FRCPC is a psychiatrist and pediatrician conducting research on the epidemiology of violence against children and women, including approaches to prevention. She is a member of the Offord Centre for Child Studies, and Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, and Pediatrics at McMaster University with associate memberships in the Departments of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Psychology. Dr. MacMillan holds the David R. (Dan) Offord Chair in Child Studies, and has received funding support from the WT Grant Foundation, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, NARSAD and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Along with colleagues affiliated with the West Virginia University Injury Control Research Center, Dr. MacMillan is conducting research in the US aimed at development of an intervention to reduce intimate partner violence within the context of an existing home visitation program - the Nurse Family Partnership. Dr. MacMillan and colleagues recently completed a multi-site randomized trial in Canada evaluating the effectiveness of intimate partner violence screening in health care settings. As part of her clinical responsibilities, Dr. MacMillan is a member 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. She served as its Founding Director from 1993 until 2004.

 

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