McMaster monitors student registrations, admissions, and graduation rates, including data on students with demonstrated financial need, through a comprehensive Student Records Database.
This Strategic Mandate Agreement (SMA) between the Ministry of Colleges and Universities and McMaster University is a key component of the Ontario government’s accountability framework for the postsecondary education system. The SMA establishes the corridor midpoint that will form the basis of enrolment-related funding over the five-year SMA3 period, supports transparency and accountability objectives, and establishes allowable performance targets for 10 metrics upon which institutional performance will be assessed.
McMaster strives to be an accessible, supportive and inclusive community. As part of our efforts to enhance equity in our programs, several mainstream programs offer equitable admission pathways to help mitigate barriers to post-secondary education.
McMaster’s Access Program connects equity-deserving students and those from historically under-represented backgrounds with information and support to set them up for success in university and provides an avenue for them to complete their studies.
Equity-deserving groups often include:
The Access Award provides up to $20,000 per year for four years of post-secondary education at McMaster. Students also receive mentorship, employment options and academic supports to set them up for success.
The functions of the Undergraduate Recruiting, Admissions and Student Affairs Committee (page 82) include (a) To assess and make recommendations to the Faculty on matters of undergraduate admissions policy and to adjudicate admission matters referred to it. (b) To plan, for approval by the Faculty, all recruitment activities and events within the Faculty and at an institutional level. (c) To review, at the end of an academic session, the grades of all students registered in undergraduate programs in the Faculty of Business (i.e., students working toward a Commerce degree); to make recommendations to the Faculty concerning the status of in-course students; and to recommend to the Faculty candidates for undergraduate degrees.
Government financial aid programs like the Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP), can help pay for students’ tuition, student fees and other education-related expenses such as books, equipment, rent and more by offering loans and grants. OSAP/government aid is available for full-time AND part-time students in both undergraduate AND graduate studies. In addition, McMaster employs several bursaries and other awards, as well as programmes and research to ensure that students that fall into the bottom quintile (e.i. 20%) of household income group can access admission to our university and complete their studies.
Lachlan and Doris MacLachlan’s gift will expand programming and provide renewable financial aid to help students overcome barriers to education.
McMaster alumni Lachlan and Doris MacLachlan have made a $2-million gift to strengthen the university’s Access Program, which helps equity-deserving students and those from historically underrepresented backgrounds overcome barriers to postsecondary education.
The Access Program is a university-wide initiative that provides financial aid and wraparound support to diverse students groups — including those who are first-generation, Indigenous, have disabilities, are racialized, come from low-income or rural families or are mature learners.
It offers renewable financial awards and practical supports such as application assistance, academic advising, wellness resources and mentorship to help students not only access university, but thrive once they’re here.
McMaster’s a community of communities, and our partners across campus offer additional options for transition programming. Students will find opportunities to meet new people and make friends, explore all that campus has to offer, receive valuable information and mentorship, learn how to apply for financial aid and source other funds — and other forms of support for their journey.
Youth in Extended Society Care Bursary is another bursary that McMaster offers that targets some of the low-income student population and gives students who have been in the care of the Children’s Aid Society financial support at the time of admission and during their degree in the form of a non-repayable bursary.
McMaster University is referencing their responsibilities under the Jay Treaty of 1794 by extending domestic (Ontario) tuition fees to Indigenous students whose ancestral homelands are within the United States or another Canadian province. The bursary will help students not only focus on their studies, but also give them time to connect with others and with their culture. It assists with not only tuition, but also cost of living expenses such as housing, childcare, food and transportation.
The Aids and Awards page also includes information on many aid programs that are available at the time of admission and throughout students’ education at McMaster, including needs-based programs and awards for equity-deserving groups like Indigenous and Black students.
Please see our statistics on financial aid given by the University in 2023-2024 school year found on Page 56 of the Fact Book. Notably, McMaster provided $13.7 million in bursaries to students this year and $72,865,594 in grants were awarded to McMaster students through the Ontario Student Assistance Program. Through our awards of needs-based aid to students, McMaster takes action to make sure that low-income students can afford to attend and graduate from our university.
The McMaster Work Program gives students who demonstrate financial need opportunities to work on campus part-time (max 10 hours/week) during the fall/winter terms and part- or full-time (max 35-40 hours/week) over the summer.
There are more than 1250 jobs available with more than 100 different McMaster departments/offices. Positions range from administrative support and customer service, to athletic coordinators to research roles.
Emergency Financial Support is available for students who have exhausted other financial aid options and have immediate and unexpected expenses leading to financial hardship.
In 2024, International students represented over 125 countries, and account for 17% of the student body. The majority of international students are from China (52.1%), India (14.1%), Iran (4.9%), South Korea (2.3%) and Nigeria (2.1%).
As a part of the McMaster University and the Equity and Inclusion Office’s priorities and commitment to Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (EDIA) on campus and to promoting and encouraging Black flourishing and excellence at McMaster, the Equity, Diversity, and Anti-Oppression Program is piloting its first EDIA focused microgrant program, Students, Staff, and Scholars Stimulating Equity, also known as the S4E Microgrants. These microgrants seek to enable innovation, progression, community collaboration, and equity within initiatives/projects, events, and research crafted at McMaster university to enhance and improve human rights, dignity, respect, and belongingness for student, staff and scholarly experience and outcomes, through evidence and community-based approaches, in line with our EDI Action Plan Towards Inclusive Excellence and aligned with the pillars of the Scarborough Charter, of which we are signee’s.
With over $20 million in awards, ranging from $10,000-$200,000, your aspirations to pursue a world-class degree and shape the future are within reach. Students with a refugee status are eligible for 1214 different types of awards, and visa students are eligible for 581.
The fund was established in 2022 to support students forcibly displaced due to armed conflict, persecution, terrorism, human rights violations, the adverse effects of climate change, natural disasters, or a combination of these factors.
McMaster supports international students through a range of programs and access initiatives that help ease the often challenging cultural and financial transitions of studying abroad.
When you’re getting settled as a new McMaster student, there are a number of issues you need to get sorted before you can start pursuing your goals for success. Some of these issues include housing, transportation, food and dining and language support.
Being part of a global community of McMaster students and alumni means that you have easy access to valuable peer-to-peer support and opportunities to connect. Whether it’s through the International Student Buddy Program, campus clubs and services or international student socials and events, your peers can help you make the most of your time at McMaster as an international student.
It’s important to learn about the health care you have access to as an international or incoming exchange student. In addition to knowing what to do when seeking medical care, learning about your health insurance will help you feel more at ease in your relocation to Canada. If you’re attending McMaster University as an international or incoming exchange student, you have access to insurance through the University Health Insurance Plan (UHIP).
Visit our International Student Hub to learn more about programs and services offered at McMaster University.
In addition to the Access Program, initiatives like MePLUS, MCYU, the Hamilton Community Research Partnership, and the Walls to Bridges program, McMaster aims to prepare, support and recruit talented students who have faced significant socioeconomic barriers, creating more equitable pathways to higher education.
Recognizing that supporting equity and inclusion in science starts well before students take their first steps on a university campus, a team of students in the Faculty of Science has made strides developing an outreach and community project.
McMaster Equitable Pathways to Learning University Sciences (MePLUS) is a free, 10-month program providing science workshops, mentorship, and personal and professional development opportunities to low-income and equity-deserving youth, including Black, Indigenous, and Latinx high school students in Hamilton and surrounding areas.
McMaster Children & Youth University (MCYU) delivers science, technology, engineering, arts and math (STEAM) based programming for children and youth in the form of FREE, on-campus Lectures by university professors and community outreach workshops facilitated by McMaster University students trained through our MCYU in the City program. Their goal is to empower and academically prepare youth, especially those at a socioeconomic disadvantage, to aspire to university education in subject areas such as science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (STEAM). MCYU is working to deepen our relationships with schools and organizations in neighborhoods where high school completion rates are disproportionately low. To help decrease barriers, we bring our MCYU in the City Workshops directly into these neighbourhoods and provide transportation to our on-campus programs.
As a partner of the Hamilton Community Research Partnership, McMaster aided research that asked the questions: “Who graduates high school in Hamilton? Who goes to college or university in Ontario? And for those who study in Hamilton, who completes college or university programs?” In total, the project examined pathways for 5,310 students, contributing to a growing body of research into the factors affecting educational outcomes such as high school graduation and postsecondary access. This research is the first of many expected rounds of study that attempt to identify barriers to post-secondary education that McMaster will participate in. The current study assesses high school graduation rates and post-secondary admission rates among students of varying demographics, including those that come from low-income families and/or neighborhoods. Future studies expect to capture even more important socio-economic factors, aiding the partnership’s attempt to reduce these barriers and admit more “left-behind” students to higher education.
Walls to Bridges is a program by the McMaster Indigenous Research Institute that offers university courses and credits, school supplies, books and photocopying for free to incarcerated people where they learn alongside other McMaster students enrolled in the courses. The aim of the program is to use education to create a conduit from prison to post-secondary reversing the cycle of generational poverty, homelessness and ill health. There are also two other tiers of the prison education program which include post-incarceration support in attending classes, mentoring, tutoring and more and finally a mentorship program which assists formerly incarcerated people who are interested in applying for university as full or part-time students.
Linda Duong, Angenie Christy Antony, Kimia Kermanchi and Priyanka Ramchurreetoo have created “Loonies for Lunches,” a campaign to improve McMaster students’ access to food and nutrition. Building off a previous McMaster Hospitality Services campaign, this was a way to make existing services more accessible and known.
Loonies for Lunches offers customers at La Piazza the opportunity to add $1 to their purchase to Lockers of Love, a McMaster Food Collective Centre (FCC) project that enables students to privately access groceries (or funds for groceries) on an as-needed basis.
The McMaster Food Collective Centre (FCC) is McMaster’s on-campus food bank and food security resource. Run by students, the goal of the FCC is to cultivate stronger food systems in the McMaster and surrounding community and advocate for increased food security. Resources are available for a variety of those in need, including students, alumni, staff, and Hamilton community partners.
The FCC provides confidential relief for food insecurity with many initiatives like Lockers of Love, which enables students to privately access groceries (or funds for groceries) on an as-needed basis.
The McMaster Community Fridge offers accessible, nutritious and free produce, packaged meals and other food staples to anyone who needs it, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Located on McMaster University’s main campus, the fridge addresses food insecurity by making available donations of fresh, frozen and non-perishable food items, personal hygiene products and pet food products.
Food for Thought McMaster provides students the opportunity to discover and experience how to cook healthy, affordable and delicious meals.
These cooking classes are offered free of charge and help students develop confidence and creativity in the kitchen while learning practical ways to incorporate healthy meals and snacks on a budget. Food for Thought is a working group made up of food enthusiasts and volunteers from various McMaster and community groups looking to make a difference.
McMaster University provides all full-time undergraduate students with a free, unlimited yearly HSR Bus Pass with the Hamilton Street Railway (HSR). The bus pass is administered through PRESTO and provides students with safe and cost-free transportation around McMaster and the Hamilton area.
The Mac’s Money Centre Tax Squad offers accessible online services to help students file their taxes in a stress-free and efficient manner. Through this initiative, students can register for tax day clinics, do-it-yourself tax webinars, and also join in on drop-in virtual tax appointments. All services are free and are run through the Hamilton Community Volunteer Income Tax Program (CVITP), which helps Hamilton individuals and families with low income complete their taxes for free.
With a focus on fairness, justice and equitable solutions, the Ombuds Office helps visitors better understand their concerns and ways to address them. This may include identifying how university policies apply to their situation and helping generate options to resolve a conflict. With a visitor’s permission, it may also include direct intervention by the Ombuds and recommending a fair resolution.
The Student Success Centre collaborates with campus and community stakeholders, including Faculty and Program colleagues, to foster student potential by supporting the whole student and their well-being, creating a sense of belonging and offering experiences beyond the classroom that enable student transformation and growth. All these themes work together to support student success; a strong foundation of well-being and belonging allows for transformation and growth to occur.
The McMaster Students Union, offers more than 20 student-oriented services available on campus, everything from a diversity and equity network, to a Pride Community Centre and a Student Walk Home Attendant Team.
This project will enable emerging leaders within McMaster University’s undergraduate community to build knowledge and skills to support health- and social-system strengthening internationally. We will leverage McMaster Health Forum’s programs to support skills development in policy, political and systems analysis, evidence synthesis, and stakeholder engagement, while building on our experience with student mentorship, leadership development and facilitating international exchange. While open to all undergraduate students, the national program targets groups for whom international experiences have traditionally been less accessible — specifically Indigenous students, students from low-income backgrounds, and those with disabilities. It also aims to diversify the destination countries where Canadian students pursue international learning.
Whether you are a student, staff or educator, you can shape the culture of teaching and learning at McMaster through various teaching and learnings grant and award opportunities that the MacPherson Institute supports.
In recognition that student partnership exists in many forms across post-secondary institutions, the MacPherson Institute will host a Students as Partners Community Forum to bring together audiences who have created, plan to create or have participated in a student partnership program. This event aims to enhance and enrich the partnership experience by creating a platform for sharing, exploring and exchanging ideas. Select partnerships are eligible for grants to support student work and participation.
Financial Literacy Month is held in November every year. McMaster University offers expert financial advice, money management tips, workshops, panel events and more. Topics include budgeting, pay cheques, inflation, credit scores and financial empowerment.
As part of their offerings, Mac’s Money Centre offers students appointments with money coaches, who offer their views to help students with their unique financial circumstances reach their financial goals. These coaches help students make budgets, help clear up misconceptions around budgets, and help students find the advice they need to succeed now and in the future. Please see the “resources and tools” option from the “About Us” drop-down menu for a look at the other ways the Money Centre teaches and supports students with their financial needs.
The Forge Business Incubator is designed to support startups by providing tailored resources and mentorship to foster growth and innovation. This program offers a supportive environment for startups that have moved beyond the idea stage, either by launching to the market or developing a working prototype (MVP). The Forge runs three cohorts annually in January, May, and September, welcoming startups from various sectors, including software, hardware, healthcare, cleantech, consumer goods, and medical devices.
Funded by McMaster University, The Forge aims to nurture entrepreneurship in the Hamilton and Greater Toronto Area (GTA) without taking equity in the companies it supports. The program offers extensive benefits, including one-on-one mentorship, professional support in areas like IP, legal, and finance, funding opportunities, access to a makerspace, and PR/media exposure.
Students in the program will work with a high-impact startup company or venture capital team on products and solutions in clean energy, AI and digital technologies, health, medicine and more.
‘Why waste energy when you can harvest it?’ Harvest Systems, leader in sustainable energy solutions, helps restaurants reduce emissions and costs without compromising efficiency.
Harvest Systems Inc., a leader in sustainable energy solutions launched out of McMaster Engineering, has been recognized as one of Canada’s top 50 most investible clean tech companies by Foresight Canada. “Harvest Systems is a shining example of McMaster-based research creating real world impact,” says Carlos Filipe, associate dean of Research, Innovation and Partnerships in the Faculty of Engineering.
What started as an incubator focused on community-based sustainable entrepreneurship has become McMaster University’s newest research centre. Led by DeGroote School of Business professor Benson Honig, The Centre for Research on Community Oriented Entrepreneurship (CRCE) will conduct research that supports marginalized and minority persons in examining problems creatively and leveraging their constraints to foster innovative business solutions.
CRCE will build on research initiated through Honig’s virtual incubator, the Reframery. Born out of COVID-19, the platform initially sought to help minorities, immigrants, women, and persons with disabilities whose careers suffered during the pandemic turn their skills to community-minded entrepreneurship. It then transcended borders as Honig and his team worked with entrepreneurs in places such as Brazil, Kenya, and Ukrainian refugees in Poland.
The Reframery consists of an e-learning platform, a training program, and an online space to cultivate connections. This digital toolkit, informed by peer-reviewed research, highlights creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurial skills.
By expanding its work with marginalized persons worldwide, CRCE’s ultimate goal is to positively impact entrepreneurs as measured by their quality of life, employment, income, community development, sustainability, and personal and community health and well-being.
CRCE will also expand participation from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other community stakeholders in Hamilton, Canada, and worldwide.
McMaster students have the opportunity to get involved in both research and training, as each cohort of entrepreneurs provides unique research opportunities. Currently, DeGroote students are busy researching and writing case studies, connecting with NGOs, enhancing the web portal that CRCE will use for training, and more.
Startup Survivor is a four-month innovation program and pitch competition for McMaster University students and recent alumni, offering $80,000 in total cash prizes. Participants engage in business and technical challenges focused on customer discovery, business modeling, rapid prototyping, go-to-market strategy, and pitching to investors. The program includes educational workshops with experts, weekly one-on-one mentorship, and feedback from external judges. Teams are awarded $1,000 per challenge, with additional funding available for projects focused on smart, sustainable, and autonomous transportation solutions.
The program culminates in a final pitch competition, where the top five finalists deliver a 5-minute pitch to a live audience and a panel of esteemed judges. After deliberations, winners are crowned and awarded the remaining $30,000 from the prize pool.
HHS DRIVE is a platform designed for our people, to help our community of health-care providers, staff and patients. We are dedicated to accelerating the translation of innovative ideas into tangible solutions that improve patient outcomes and advance health care. We are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse community of health innovators, recognizing that the best ideas come from a variety of perspectives and experiences.
Shortlisted applicants are expected to make their best effort to attend our six-week Health Innovation Bootcamp series, in collaboration with The Clinic at McMaster, scheduled for May – June 2024.
McMaster Innovation Park (MIP) is Canada’s premier research and innovation park supporting startups, business, research and offering collaborative space to transform ideas from vision to commercial reality. Our mission is to help companies grow.
MIP acts as a bridge between academia and industry. Supporting researchers with commercial aspirations and enabling students and entrepreneurs to develop their ideas in our incubator and accelerator programs, while also connecting industry with the technical prowess of McMaster University and other academic institutions. MIP is an integral part of Hamilton’s innovation ecosystem where anyone can find a multiplicity of resources to help begin your journey.
McMaster University established the McMaster Seed Fund (MSF) in 2021 to support the development of research-intensive and innovative startups with the potential to deliver significant economic and societal benefits to Canada. The fund aims to maximize the impact of McMaster’s research by investing in new business ventures involving one or more members of the McMaster community. These ventures translate groundbreaking research or knowledge generated at the University or its affiliated hospitals into socio-economic benefits.
To date, eight companies have received a total of $2.8 million, with up to $500,000 per startup, in the first three rounds of McMaster Seed Fund investments. Successful companies are awarded tranche investments, where the release of funds is tied to pre-negotiated deliverables.
Three McMaster startup companies – HARvEST, A.I. VALI Inc. and Esphera SynBio – have each received $256,000 in the third round of McMaster Seed Fund investments.
Co-founded by mechanical engineering professor, James Cotton, and research lab manager at the McMaster Institute for Energy Studies, Jeffrey Girard, HARvEST aims to support decarbonization of the restaurant industry with their fuel-less, carbon-free hot water heating system.
Medical device startup A.I. VALI Inc. – cofounded by McMaster professor of medicine and gastroenterologist, David Armstrong – has developed AIDREA™, an AI platform that uses interactive machine learning to document and analyze endoscopy videos in real-time.
AIDREA™’s flexibility will enable clinicians to diagnose diseases, such as inflammatory bowel disease, cancer and pre-cancerous conditions more confidently. The platform will also link to other technologies, such as scope-tracking devices developed in collaboration with Qiyin Fang, professor of engineering physics, to improve efficiency and productivity of the clinic workflow, facilitate improved patient access to care and reduce costs.
McMaster students Myra Godara and Ryan Ho secured funding, rallied volunteers, and assembled 200 kits of high-demand hygiene products for people in need across Hamilton, Niagara, and Waterloo.
Wilson students joined youth from across Hamilton at the HamOntYouth Summit, where they covered pressing civic issues and topics that affect youth. More than 300 high school and post-secondary students from across Hamilton gathered on campus this month for the third annual HamOntYouth Summit, an event that puts students from lower, mountain and rural Hamilton at the centre of discussion about city issues. City of Hamilton staff joined the workshops, taking notes on the issues being discussed, including how to connect youth to services, what drives youth downtown, youth and transit, and walk-in mental health services for youth.
Krystene Green is shaping new narratives. Her work on land defence and the criminal justice system is making space for and highlighting Indigenous experiences.
MEDLIFE aims to support low-income communities in Latin America and Africa through our fundraising initiatives and service-learning trips. We also strive to make a difference in our local community through organizing group volunteering and partnerships with impactful organizations across Hamilton.
The Shelter Health Network was co-founded by Dr. Dale Guenter a family physician, Associate Professor at McMaster University, and co-director at McMaster Family Practice, one of two academic clinics in the McMaster Family Health Team. The Shelter Health Network aims to serve people living in Hamilton who have no family doctor, are homeless or precariously housed, and have complex health and social needs.
McMaster’s Okanagan Office of Health & Well-being provides crisis support and resources for all community members who need urgent support such as housing, emergency food or financial support.
The McMaster Community Poverty Initiative is a group of students, faculty and staff dedicated to research, advocacy and education and action related to poverty reduction. Together with our partners in the Hamilton community, we strive to use knowledge for social change.
The McMaster United Way Campaign: Local Love in a Global Crisis ensures an essential network of programs and services to achieve lasting, positive change through community engagement. It allows McMaster staff, faculty, and students to strengthen their relationship with the surrounding community.
MacChangers offer experiential learning opportunities to students and propose collaborative solutions to the most complex and pressing problems confronting society in the 21st century as identified in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (Think Global) and Our Future Hamilton (Act Local) long-term community vision.
Throughout the school year, MacChangers teams develop their professional and transferable skills through workshops on a variety of topics, such as human-centered design, financial viability of solutions, prototyping, communication, teamwork, leadership and problem-solving. The program welcomes students from all faculties to share their expertise and has no cost to enroll.
The Social Innovation Certificate is designed for undergraduate students to develop an academic focus in the development and implementation of solutions for effective, long-term social impact. The new program helps students develop the skills they need to design and implement real-world solutions to social issues.
ACCESS Tech helps to provide Hamiltonians in need by donating used technology like computers, laptops, and mobile devices. Students, faculty members and staff can drop off any used technology for donation on McMaster campus.
The McMaster Optimal Aging Portal is a source for healthy aging information that people can trust. The portal offers evidence-based research and programs on everything from mobility and transportation to supportive housing and cognitive health for older adults.
Good Shepherd Women’s Services (GSWS) strives to provide safe, welcoming, and accommodating emergency shelter services to anyone who comes to their door. However, the organization’s leadership is aware of persistent safety and accessibility barriers that transgender and non-binary clients experience in the shelter system. GSWS commissioned the McMaster Research Shop to research the experiences of transgender and non-binary clients in the shelter system, as well as ways that shelter services can be adapted to better suit their needs
Many of McMaster’s Research Centres and Institutes address complex, societal challenges that cross traditional boundaries and disciplines. Our cutting-edge research infrastructure encourages collaboration and provides evidence-based support for policies that address poverty, sustainability and prosperity for all.
McMaster recognizes that access to research platforms with specialized equipment and technical expertise is essential to advancing basic research and competing on the world’s research stage.
Across our campus — from department-based laboratories to suites of equipment housed within centres and institutes to state-of-the-art national research facilities — our platforms provide our researchers with the cutting-edge methods and tools required to impact their fields of research. They also enable our private sector, government and community partners to access some of the country’s top talent.
The Volunteer and Work Abroad program gives students support to build intercultural skills and gain international experience and support communities working to alleviate poverty. The program has a wide range of opportunities outside Canada that include both working or volunteering abroad.
McMaster researcher Bonny Ibhawoh is a UN expert Mechanism on the Right to Development, as named by the UN Human Rights Council, which makes him responsible for monitoring and reporting on conditions related to the right to development. His work seeks to address systemic inequalities and human rights violations globally.
Housed within McMaster’s Centre for Human Rights and Restorative Justice and led by principal investigator Bonny Ibhawoh, Participedia is the largest database of its kind, comprising 63 researchers from 22 universities and 21 organizations across 12 countries. It an open-access crowdsourcing platform, similar to Wikipedia, to share research and information about democratic initiatives around the world.
Working with $2.5 million funding from SSHRC and other sources, Phase 2 of Participedia will focus on the challenges of democracy in the Global South, which refers broadly to the regions of Latin America, Asia, Africa and Oceania. Researchers and contributors will also address how non-Western democratic innovations are documented and analyzed by researchers.
In 2024, Ibhawoh shared his preliminary findings of a climate justice study he is undertaking with support from researchers at the McMaster Centre for Human Rights and Restorative Justice. He shared with us why climate justice, which is rooted in the understanding that the impacts of climate change are unevenly distributed across the globe, is an essential framework for global conversations about climate change.
With a growing international focus on evidence-informed policymaking to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), McMaster University is expanding the scope of Social Systems Evidence (SSE) to cover all of the SDGs. Social Systems Evidence is the world’s most comprehensive, free access point for synthesized evidence about strengthening 16 government sectors and program areas.
The Social Systems Evidence is an initiative of McMaster Health Forum and the Monash Sustainable Development Institute.