Joint Centre for Bioethics

Alison Thompson

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy
• Centres
  • Joint Centre for Bioethics

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
Website
Email: a.thompson@utoronto.ca
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Barry Pakes

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Family and Community Medicine
• Centres
  • Global Health Consortium
  • Joint Centre for Bioethics
  • The Wilson Centre

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: 647-328-5567
Languages: English
Website
Email: barry.pakes@utoronto.ca
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Bernard Dickens

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Law
• Centres
  • Joint Centre for Bioethics

Areas of Expertise

• Abortion rights
• Bioethics
• Health policy
• Medical and health law
• Medical ethics

Office: 416-978-4849
Home: 416-967-0687
Mobile: 416-967-0687
Website
Email: bernard.dickens@utoronto.ca
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Catherine Chalin

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Dalla Lana School of Public Health
• Centres
  • Global Health Consortium
  • Joint Centre for Bioethics
  • School of the Environment

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 Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Religion
• Centres
  • Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies
  • Joint Centre for Bioethics

Areas of Expertise

• Ethics (including biomedical ethics)
• Jewish law, ethics, and political theory
• Jewish-Christian relations
• Political theory (with special emphasis on natural law theory)

Office: 416-946-3229
Languages: Hebrew,German,Yiddish,Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE); Imperial Aramaic (700-300 BCE),Greek, Modern (1453-),Latin,French
Website
Email: david.novak@utoronto.ca
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Neil Lazar

Associate Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Medicine
• Centres
  • Joint Centre for Bioethics

Areas of Expertise

• Critical care medicine
• Quality end of life care
• Respirology

Office: N/A
Languages: English
Website
Email: neil.lazar@uhn.ca
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Ross Upshur

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Family and Community Medicine
• Centres
  • Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
  • Joint Centre for Bioethics

Areas of Expertise

• Philosophy of medicine and public health
• Practice and policy
• Primary care research
• Public health ethics (communicable diseases)

Office: (416) 978-6459
Website
Email: ross.upshur@utoronto.ca
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Wayne Sumner

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Philosophy
• Centres
  • Centre for Ethics
  • Joint Centre for Bioethics

Areas of Expertise

• Freedom of expression (hate speech and pornography)
• Medical assistance in dying
• Reproductive issues (abortion)

Office: 416-565-6944
Website
Email: wayne.sumner@utoronto.ca
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