Joint Centre for Bioethics
Alison Thompson
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- 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
Website
Email: a.thompson@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Barry Pakes
Associate Professor
- 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: 647-328-5567
Languages: English
Website
Email: barry.pakes@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Bernard Dickens
Professor Emeritus/Emerita
- Campus
- Faculty
- Centres
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
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Catherine Chalin
Professor Emeritus/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
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
David Novak
Professor Emeritus/Emerita
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
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
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Neil Lazar
Associate Professor Emeritus/Emerita
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Critical care medicine
- Quality end of life care
- Respirology
Office: N/A
Languages: English
Website
Email: neil.lazar@uhn.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Ross Upshur
Professor
- 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) 978-6459
Website
Email: ross.upshur@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Wayne Sumner
Professor Emeritus/Emerita
- 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
Website
Email: wayne.sumner@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online