Joint Centre for Bioethics
Alison Thompson
Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Professor of Public Health Services
Professor of Public Health Sciences, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Emergency Preparedness and Global Health Security
- Ethics and pandemics
- Ethics and public health
- Ethics and vaccines
- Prioritization of scare resources
- Professional ethics and pharmacy
- Public engagement
- Public health ethics
- Public understanding of risk and vaccination
- Social and ethics issues in health
Office: 416-978-8824
Mobile: 416-819-6581
Website
Email: a.thompson@utoronto.ca
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Barry Pakes
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Associate Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Deputy Chief Medical Officer of Health, Nunavut
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Arctic and inuit health
- COVID response
- Global health
- Global health ethics
- India COVID-19 crisis
- Pandemic influenza
- Primary care
- Public health
- Public health education
- Public health ethics
- Testing barriers and asymptomatic patients
- Tobacco control
- Vaccinology
Office: Not Available
Mobile: 647-328-5567
Website
Email: barry.pakes@utoronto.ca
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Bernard Dickens
Professor Emeritus
- Campus
- Faculty
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-4849
Home: 416-967-0687
Email: bernard.dickens@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Catherine Chalin
Professor Emerita
- Campus
- Faculty
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Child poverty
- Disabilities – hearing loss
- Global public health
- Human rights
- Medical education
- Peace-building through public health
- Public health in conflicted regions of the world
- Uprooted people – refugees; street people; immigrants
Office: 416-978-7806
Email: c.chalin@utoronto.ca
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David Novak
Professor, Department for the Study of Religion, Faculty of Arts and Science
Professor, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts and Science
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-946-3229
Languages: Hebrew, German, Yiddish
Website
Email: david.novak@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Florence Ashley
SJD Candidate
- Campus
- Faculty
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: N/A
Languages: French
Website
Email: f.ashley@mail.utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Michael Atkinson
Professor, Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education
Cross-Appointed, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Illness; pain and suffering
- Invisible disabilities (epilepsy; insomnia; anxiety)
- Masculinity studies
- Qualitative research
- Sport and violence
Office: 416-978-7205
Email: michael.atkinson@utoronto.ca
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Neil Lazar
Associate Professor Emeritus, Department of Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: N/A
Email: neil.lazar@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Ross Upshur
Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Philosophy of medicine and public health
- Practice and policy
- Primary care research
- Public health ethics (communicable diseases)
Office: 416-978-4756
Mobile: 416-357-0663
Email: ross.upshur@utoronto.ca
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Wayne Sumner
University Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts and Science
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Freedom of expression (hate speech and pornography)
- Medical assistance in dying
- Reproductive issues (abortion)
Office: 416-565-6944
Mobile: 416-565-6944
Website
Email: sumner@chass.utoronto.ca
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