Join us for a stimulating panel about how two major initiatives in the USA and Canada are advancing Indigenous genomic data sovereignty and data governance practices: the Native BioData Consortium and the Silent Genomes Project. Presentations by each panelist will be followed by a Q&A. Panelists: Krystal Tsosie, PhD MPH MA, Native BioData Consortium Nadine […]
Avian influenza, or bird flu, has been receiving growing media attention due to continuing significant impacts on public health, economic stability, food security, animal welfare, and global health security. With the potential for highly pathogenic strains to cause severe illness and high mortality rates in birds and occasionally infect humans, the threat of a mutated […]
Speaker: Manisha Pahwa, McGill University Lung cancer screening policies and programs are evolving in Canadian jurisdictions with the goal of reducing lung cancer mortality. Potential ethical issues range from promoting autonomy and minimizing harm, to group-level justice considerations related screening access and the use of lung cancer risk factor information to determine individual screening eligibility. […]
Speaker: Daniel Buchman, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Palliative psychiatry is an emerging subfield of mental health care that focuses on improving quality of life and relieving suffering in people living with severe and persistent mental illnesses (SPMI), rather than aiming solely for symptom remission or cure. Palliative psychiatry applies the principles of palliative […]
W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics Public Seminar Speaker: Sheila Murta, Associate Professor, Institute of Psychology, University of Brasília Co-production by researchers and young people for the development of mental health research and interventions is increasingly common. However, this model raises a number of challenges, related, for instance to communication, power and control. This […]
W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics Public Seminar Speaker: Daryl Pullman, Professor of Bioethics, Memorial University of Newfoundland While Canadians often pride ourselves on our so-called ‘universal healthcare system’, that system has faced steady erosion over the past several decades. While publicly funded healthcare has struggled to provide timely and effective services, privately funded […]