The 8th Annual Ross Upshur Lecture on Public Health Ethics will address some of the many ethical tensions that have been so clearly surfaced by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Speaker: Vivian Tam, MD, MSc, CCFP(EM) candidate, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Ottawa About this Seminar: In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated the introduction of visitor restrictions to acute care hospitals in Ontario, Canada, which remain in evolution as we navigate successive phases of the pandemic. In response, the Toronto Region COVID-19 Hospital […]
