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