The theme of the 2021 Canadian Bioethics Society Annual Conference will be “Behind the Mask: Ethical Issues Revealed by COVID-19 in Canada and Beyond.”
Speaker: Arthur L. Caplan, PhD, Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Chair and Director, Division of Medical Ethics, NYU Grossman School of Medicine About the lecture: 12:00 - Introduction and History of the Philippa Harris Lecture Series 12:10 - Introduction of the Speaker 12:15 - Speaker Presentation 1:00 - Question and Answer Period Efforts […]
This event is part of the Bioethics Seminar Series 2021-22. Speaker: Sophia Fantus, PhD, MSW, Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Arlington School of Social Work About this Seminar: The visibility of same-sex parent families and the increased use of surrogacy worldwide have expanded LGBT parenting scholarship to include experiences of gay men. Yet, even […]
Speakers: Joseph Donia, PhD Candidate, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto Jay Shaw, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy / Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto; Research Director of AI, Ethics & Health, University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics; Scientist, Women's College Hospital Institute for Health […]
Speakers: Dr. Andrew Helmers, MDCM, MHSc (Bioethics), MSc, Staff Physician, Department of Critical Care Medicine & Department of Bioethics, The Hospital for Sick Children Rashad Rehman, BA, PhD Candidate, Department of Philosophy & Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto; Project-Specific Bioethics Research Volunteer, Mount Sinai Hospital About this Seminar: Insulin's discovery and discoverers are […]
Dr. Abi Sriharan, D.Phil, MSc (Oxon) Program Director, Systems Leadership and Innovation Assistant Professor, Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto Description: This presentation will explore moral distress and burnout experienced by health professionals during COVID-19; lessons learned from research, practical tools and relevant ethical issues […]
Speaker: Ghaiath Hussein, Assistant Professor, Medical Ethics and Law, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland About this Seminar: Public health emergencies, whether natural or man-made, local or global, in peacetime or during armed conflicts are always associated with the need to collect data (and sometimes biological samples) about and from those affected by these emergencies. One of […]
In this lecture Effy Vayena (Professor of Bioethics, ETH Zurich) will discuss the recently released guidance by the World Health Organization (WHO) on the ethics and governance of Health AI. The guidance is an attempt to move global governance efforts forward. With this as her starting point, she will aim to contextualize the report in […]
Speaker: Patrick Garon-Sayegh, SJD candidate, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto About this Seminar: The legal standard for medical malpractice tells us very little on its own. To make a specific malpractice claim, the legal standard must be suffused with a case’s particulars and the opinion of medical experts. Thus, medical experts are often the […]
Equitable access, solidarity, and global health justice: Bridging the gap between ethics and decision-making in pandemics From resource allocation and priority-setting, access to vaccines, vaccine mandates, lockdowns, travel restrictions, public health surveillance, and obligations to conduct clinical trials, the COVID-19 pandemic has raised profound ethical challenges on an unprecedented global scale. At the same time, and […]
