Maxwell J. Smith, PhD, MSc

Assistant Professor

Position:

  • Assistant Professor (status), Division of Clinical Public Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
  • Assistant Professor & Western Research Chair in Public Health Ethics, School of Health Studies, Faculty of Health Sciences, & Associate Director, Rotman Institute of Philosophy, Western University

SGS Status: Associate Member (Status only)
Primary Graduate Appointment: Division of Clinical Public Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Graduate Appointment(s): Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Research Interests
  • Public health ethics
  • Infectious disease ethics
  • Health equity
  • Social justice
Education & Training History
  • Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship, Institute for Health and Social Policy, McGill University
  • PhD, public health sciences (with collaborative specializations in bioethics, public health policy, and health services and policy research), Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
  • Certificate in Health Law, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
  • MSc, bioethics, Union Graduate College and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
  • Honours BA, philosophy, University of Toronto
Honours & Awards
  • Caroline Miles Visiting Scholarship, Ethox Centre, University of Oxford (2023)
  • Canadian Association of University Teachers and Harry Crowe Foundation Olivieri Lectureship on Medical Ethics (2021)
  • Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship (2016-18)
  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research Douglas Kinsella Doctoral Award for Research in Bioethics (2012-15)
  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship
  • University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics Peter A. Singer Graduate Award in Bioethics (2013)
  • University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics Mervis-Simon Family Award in Bioethics (2012)
Other Affiliations
  • Public Health Agency of Canada Public Health Ethics Consultative Group
  • Ontario Public Health Emergencies Science Advisory Committee
  • Consulting Bioethicist, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
  • Member, Institute for Pandemics, University of Toronto
  • Editorial Board, Public Health Ethics
  • Editorial Board, Canadian Journal of Bioethics
  • Associate Editor, Health Care Analysis