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Alison Thompson

Associate Professor

Alison Thompson

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

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

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

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

David Novak

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

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

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

Wayne Sumner

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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