Mackenzie Martin

Mackenzie Martin is a Canadian Rhodes Scholar and Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at McMaster University in the Strong Families Lab. Mackenzie has a master’s in Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation and a doctorate in Social Intervention from the University of Oxford. For her research, Mackenzie investigates how to enhance child and family health and well-being through social and public health interventions, with a particular focus on parents. For instance, for her doctorate, Mackenzie examined the implementation and scale-up of the Parenting for Lifelong Health for Parents and Adolescents program in reducing violence against children and child behaviour problems among 35,000 families in Tanzania, with support from a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship. Mackenzie also has a BSc in Human Ecology and a BEd in Secondary Education from the University of Alberta.