2011 - 2012
September 15
12:30 – 2:00
Trudo Lemmens
Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
Simon Stern
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
Why Guest-Authors of Ghostwritten Publications Can Be Held Liable for Fraud
September 29
12:30 – 2:00
(Location: 78 Queen's Park, Flavelle House - Classroom B)
Carl Elliott
Professor, Center for Bioethics and the Departments of Pediatrics and Philosophy, University of Minnesota
October 13
12:30 – 2:00
Joel Lexchin
Professor, School of Health Policy and Management, York University
Those Who Have the Gold Make the Evidence: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Clinical Trials
(co-sponsored by the Centre for Innovation Law & Policy)
October 27
12:30 – 2:00
Colleen Flood
Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy and Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
Is Canada Odd? European and Canadian Approaches to Choice and Regulation of the Public/Private Divide
November 17 (CANCELLED) please check back for a new date.
12:30 – 2:00
Joanna Erdman
Fellow, the Information Society Project’s Program for the Study of Reproductive Justice, Yale Law School
former Co-Director of the International Reproductive and Sexual Health Law Programme and
founding Director of the Health Equity and Law Clinic at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
Access to Information on Safe Abortion: A Harm Reduction and Human Rights Approach
November 24
12:30 – 2:00
Barbara Evans
Associate Professor, Co-director, Health Law & Policy Institute and Director, Center on Biotechnology & Law
University of Houston Law Center
Clinical Translation of Pharmacogenomics Under the U.S. Food & Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007
(co-sponsored by the Centre for Innovation Law & Policy)
January 12
12:30 – 2:00
Saad Abughanm
The Implications of IP Protection on Access to Medicines: lessons from the Jordanian experience
(co-sponsored by the Centre for Innovation Law & Policy)
Friday, January 20 - Note new date and location!
12:30 – 2:00
(Location: Classroom B, Flavelle House - 78 Queen's Park)
Catherine O’Regan
Global Visiting Professor of Law, New York University and Former Constitutional Court Judge, South Africa
Adjudicating the Right to Health in the South African Constitution
(Joint Health Law, Ethics and Policy and Constitutional Roundtable Seminar)
February 2
12:30 – 2:00
Mariana Mota Prado
Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
Provision of Health Care Services and the Right to Health in Brazil:The long, winding and uncertain road to equality
February 16
12:30 – 2:00
Kevin Outterson
Associate Professor of Law, Bioethics and Human Rights, Boston University
Antibiotic Prize Funds
(co-sponsored by the Centre for Innovation Law & Policy)
March 1
12:30 – 2:00
Aart Hendriks
Professor of Health Law, Faculty of Law, Leiden University
The Regulation of Euthanasia and Physician Assisted Suicide in the Netherlands. An example for Canada?
2010-2011
Click here to see the 2010-2011 schedule (PDF).
Health Law, Ethics and Policy Seminar Series
2009 - 2010
| Date | Speaker | Title |
September 17
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00
LOCATION
FLC (Classrm C)
Flavelle House
78 Queen's Park | STUDENTS ONLY | |
September 24
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Rebecca Cook
University of Toronto Faculty of Law | Stereotyping Women in the Health Sector |
October 15
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Charles Ngwena
University of the Free State, South Africa | Conceiving Access to Health Care as a Right: Lessons from South Africa on the Limits of Justiciability |
October 29
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | CANCELLED Herman Nys
Catholic University of Leuven | Europe's Experience with Patients' Rights Charters |
November 12
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Joseph White
Case Western Reserve University | The Puzzling Politics of Spending Control in the Current U.S. Health Care Reform Debate |
NEW DATE
November 19
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 LOCATION
FLC (Classrm C)
Flavelle House
78 Queen's Park | Richard Elliott
Director, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network | Delivering on the Pledge: Reforming Canada's Access to Medicines Regimes |
December 3
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | STUDENTS ONLY CANCELLED | |
January 14
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Philippe Couillard
McGill University | The Chaoulli ruling and the government response: 4 years later |
January 28
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Joan Gilmour
Osgoode Hall Law School | The Newfoundland and Labrador Commission of Inquiry on Hormone Receptor Testing: Understanding the Standard of Care in Laboratory Testing |
February 11
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Donald Light
Lorry Lokey Visiting Professor
Stanford University THIS WORKSHOP HAS BEEN CANCELLED AND CHANGED TO: Colleen Flood Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto | Advanced Market Commitments: Current Realities and Alternate Approaches Charter Rights & Health Care Funding: A Typology of Health Rights Litigation |
February 25
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Scott Burris
Temple University | Stigma from a Public Health Law Perspective: Research Questions and Ethical Issues
|
March 11
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Lars Noah
University of Florida | Coerced Participation in Clinical Trials: Conscripting Human Research Subjects |
March 25
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Ted Ormston
Consent and Capacity Board | Mental Health and the Law |
Health Law and Policy Seminar Series
2008 - 2009
The Health Law & Policy Seminars are co-sponsored by the Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto.
| Date | Speaker | Title |
September 4
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | STUDENTS ONLY | |
October 2
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Gregg Bloche
Georgetown University Law School | The Emergent Logic of Health Law |
October 16
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Vanessa Gruben
University of Ottawa
Faculty of Law | Privacy and the AHRA: Assisting in the Collection of Information for the Assisted Human Reproduction Agency of Canada |
November 20
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Jonathan Berger
AIDS Law Project | Institutions Matter: The Right to Health, the Regulation of Medicines and the South African Constitution |
November 27
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Mary Anne Bobinski
University of British Columbia
Faculty of Law | The U.S. Perspective on the Health Insurance Debate in Canada |
December 4
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | STUDENTS ONLY | |
January 22
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Mary Wiktorowicz
York University
Health Policy & Management | Mental health network governance and coordination: Comparative analysis across ten regions |
January 29
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Martin Hevia
Joanna Erdman
University of Toronto | The Right Against Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment: Termination of an Anencephalic Pregnancy |
February 5
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Constance MacIntosh
Dalhousie University Law School | Dirty Water, Dirty Hands: Public Health Deficits and Water Quality Debacles on First Nation Reserves |
February 12
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00
LOCATION:
Classroom C
78 Queen's Park | Aeyal Gross
Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law | The Right to Health in the Era of Privatization: Public Health/Private Rights or Private Health/Public Rights
|
March 12
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Jane Kay
Oxford University | Data-Sharing of Research Data - What are the implications?
|
March 26
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Theodore R. Marmour
Yale University School of Management | Reflections on Medicare Across the North American Border |
Health Law and Policy Seminar Series
2007 - 2008
| Date | Speaker | Title |
September 12
Wednesday
12:30 - 2:00 | Naina Kapur
Sakshi Center | Public Interest vs. Public Interest |
September 19
Wednesday
12:30 - 2:00
NEW LOCATION:
Abella Moot Court Room
78 Queen's Park | Paul Hunt
Human Rights Center, University of Essex
Co-sponsored by the International Human Rights Program. | Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health: Opportunities and Challenges |
NEW DATE:
October 3
Wednesday
12:30 - 2:00 | Ron Bouchard
University of Toronto, Faculty of Law | Commercializaton of Publicly-funded Medical Technologies: A Third Way |
October 25
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Stephen Smith
University of Birmingham Law School | Regulating Assisted Dying: Slippery Slopes and Other Myths |
November 1
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Ted Schrecker
University of Ottawa | Challenging the global marketplace: The rights to health and why it matters |
November 22
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Joanna Erdman
University of Toronto | In the Back Alleys of Health Care: Abortion, Equality and Community in Canada |
November 29
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Marie-Claude Premont
McGill University Faculty of Law | Post-Chaoulli direction for healthcare: Worrisome signs from Quebec |
December 6
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Richard Gold
McGill University Faculty of Law | Myriad Genetics: Caught in the Eye of a Policy Storm |
January 10
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Timothy Jost
Washington and Lee University
School of Law | Legal Barriers to Universal Health Care Coverage in the United States |
January 24
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Maurice Adams
University of Antwerp | The regulation of euthanasia in Belgium (and the Netherlands): legal and socio-legal aspects |
NEW DATE:
February 7
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00
NEW LOCATION:
Classroom A
78 Queen's Park | Aeyal Gross
Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law | Health Between a Right and a
Commodity: A Comparative Analysis of the Israeli Experience
|
February 14
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | David Henry
President & CEO, Institute of Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) | The Australia/USA Free Trade Agreement - impact on access to medicines |
March 6
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Chidi Oguamanam
Dalhousie University Law School | The Future of Personalized Medicine and Personalizing the Medicine of the Future: In Search of Insights from Complementary and Alternative Medicine |
NEW DATE
March 13 (Thurs)
12:30 - 2:00
LOCATION
Classroom A
78 Queen's Park | Jill Horwitz
University of Michigan Law School | What do Nonprofits Maximize? Nonprofit Hospital Service Provision and Market Ownership Mix |
March 20
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | William Lahey
Dalhousie University Law School | Inter-Professional Practice and the Law: Understanding and Overcoming the Barriers |
Health Law and Policy Seminar Series
2006 - 2007
Unless otherwise indicated, all seminars are held in the Solarium (room FA2), Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, 84 Queen's Park.
| Date | Speaker | Title |
September 7
12:10 - 2:00 | Michael Decter
Chair, Health Council of Canada | The Evolution of Canadian Health Care: Poetry, Policy and Prospects |
September 14
12:10 – 2:00 | Ted Marmor
Yale School of Management
LOCATION:
Abella Moot Court Room
78 Queen's Park | Policy Analysis: Putting it All Together |
September 21
12:10 - 2:00 | Stefan Gress
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany | Social and private health insurance in Germany: Consequences of the 2006 health care reform |
September 25
MONDAY
12:10 - 2:00 | Marie Bismark
Senior Solicitor, Buddle Findlay
(New Zealand) | New Zealand's No-Fault Accident Compensation Scheme |
October 5
12:10 - 2:00 | Edward P. Richards
Louisiana State University Law Center | When Moral Hazard Becomes Mortal Hazard - Policy Failures Leading to the Hurricane Katrina Disaster |
October 12
12:10 - 2:00 | Jacob Hacker
Yale University
LOCATION:
Abella Moot Court Room, 78 Queen's Park | Dismantling the Health Care State? Political Institutions, Public Policies, and the Comparative Politics of Health Reform |
October 26
12:10 - 2:00 | Jacqueline Fox
University of South Carolina School of Law | Reinvigorating the Concept of Benefit: The Failure of Drug Company-Sponsored Research on Human Subjects |
November 2
12:10 - 2:00 | Nola Ries
University of Alberta | Is the Law Fit to Combat Fat? Addressing the Obesity Epidemic through Food Regulation and Litigation |
NEW DATE
January 11
12:10 - 2:00 | Daniel Callahan
The Hastings Center
LOCATION:
Classroom FLA, 78 Queen's Park | Medicine, the Market, and Unsustainable Progess |
February 1
12:10 - 2:00 | Ariel Katz
University of Toronto, Faculty of Law | Pharmaceutical Lemons: The Effect of Patents and Regulation in the Drug Industry |
NEW DATE
February 15
12:10 - 2:00 | Sanda Rogers
University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law
NEW LOCATION:
Classroom FLA, 78 Queen's Park | Misconceived: Women's Reproductive Equality and the Supreme Court of Canada |
March 1
12:10 - 2:00 | Joan H. Krause
University of Houston Law Center | The Ethics of Influence: Pharmaceutical Companies and Medical Practice |
March 15
12:10 - 2:00 | Mark Hall
Wake Forest University School of Law and School of Medicine; and Babcock School of Management | The History and Future of Health Care Law: An Essentialist View |
March 22
12:10 - 2:00 | Joan M. Gilmour
Osgoode Hall Law School
LOCATION:
Classroom FLA, 78 Queen's Park | Patient Safety, Medical Error and Tort Law: Where To From Here? |
March 29
12:10 - 2:00 | Toni Ashton
University of Auckland, Faculty of Medical & Health Sciences | Contracting for health services in a 'decentralized' health system
|
May 1 (Tuesday)
4:00 - 6:00
LOCATION:
Auditorium
(Room 610)
Health Sciences Bldg.
155 College Str. | Pauline Allen
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Wine and Cheese Reception to follow in room 208, Health Sciences Building. Please RSVP to Nadia Gulezko at
n.gulezko@utoronto.ca
| Moving Towards the Market Again: Supply Side Reform in Recent English Healchare Policy
|
Health Law and Policy Seminar Series
2005 - 2006
Unless otherwise indicated, all seminars are held in the Solarium (room FA2), Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, 84 Queen's Park.
| Date | Speaker | Title |
September 8
12:10 - 2:00 | Students only. | |
September 15
12:10 – 2:00 | Lawrence Gostin
Georgetown University
New Location:
Classroom FLA, Flavelle House
78 Queen's Park
Lawrence Gostin's visit is organized in the context of a research project on "Insurance and Health Systems Implications of Genetics", which is funded by a grant from Genome Canada, through the Ontario Genomics Institute. | Health of the People: The Highest Law? |
September 22
12:10 - 2:00 | Charles Ngwena
University of the Free State, South Africa
Co-sponsored with the International Human Rights Program. | Equality, Access to Health Care and the Constitution: A South African Perspective |
September 29
12:10 - 2:00 | Dianne Nicol
Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania
Dianne Nicol's visit is organized in the context of a research project on "Insurance and Health Systems Implications of Genetics", which is funded by a grant from Genome Canada, through the Ontario Genomics Institute. | Genetic Tests and Gene Patenting: Can the Relationship Work? |
October 20
12:10 – 2:00 | Keith Syrett
School of Law, University of Bristol
New Location:
Classroom FLA, Flavelle House
78 Queen's Park | Deliberating on the Rationing of Health Care: Rethinking the Role of the Courts |
October 27
12:10 – 2:00 | Ted Marmor
Yale University | Comparative Policy Analysis and the Medical Care World |
November 3
12:10 - 2:00 | Gilbert Sharpe and Raisa Deber
University of Toronto | The Supreme Court and Chaoulli |
November 17
12:10 - 2:00 | Sheila Wildeman
Dalhousie University
LOCATION:
Room FA3 Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park | Autonomy, Insight, and Psychiatric Treatment Choice: Starson's Catch-22 |
November 24
12:10 - 2:00 | Timothy Jost
Washington and Lee University School of Law | Consumer-Driven Health Care: United States and International Experiences |
December 8
12:10 - 2:00 | Catherine Regis
University of Toronto | Dispute Resolution in Health Care: A Law and Psychology Approach |
January 19
12:10 - 2:00
NEW DATE | Trudo Lemmens
University of Toronto | Is Medical Research in Crisis? And Will Registration of Clinical Trials Restore Public Trust? |
January 26
12:10 - 2:00 | Sherry Glied
Columbia University | Regret, Envy, and Efficiency: The Economics of Equity in Health Care |
February 2
12:10 - 2:00 | Carolyn Tuohy
University of Toronto | Quality, Accessibility, Sustainability: Can We Have All Three in Health Care? |
February 9
12:10 - 2:00 | Mita Giacomini
McMaster University | Reasons and reasoning in decisions to publicly insure health technologies |
March 2
12:10 - 2:00 | Colleen Flood
University of Toronto | Prospects and Pitfalls in Regulating Private Health Care Insurance |
March 16
12:10 - 2:00 | Michael Waite
University of Alberta | To Tell the Truth: The Ethical, Legal and Patient Safety Implications of Disclosure of Medical Error and the Need for Reform |
March 30
12:10 - 2:00 | Barbara von Tigerstrom
University of Saskatchewan | The Revised International Health Regulations and Restraint of National Health |
NEW DATE:
April 4
(Tuesday)
12:10 - 2:00 | Adalstein Brown
University of Toronto
NEW LOCATION:
Classroom FLB, Flavelle House
78 Queen's Park | Reflections on Hospital Governance: Variations in practice and their implications for the new world of hospital (and local) governance |
NEW
April 18
(Tuesday)
12:10 - 2:00 | Dr. Gregory P. Marchildon
Graduate School of Public Policy
University of Regina
NEW LOCATION:
Faculty Lounge, Flavelle House
78 Queen's Park | Canadian Health Care: A Comparative View from the European Observatory
With introductory remarks by
Profesor Richard Saltman, Emory University. |
Health Law and Policy Seminar Series
2004 - 2005
| Date | Speaker | Title |
September 9
12:10 - 2:00 | Registered students only. | |
September 23
12:10 – 2:00 p.m. | Nitesh Choudhry
Harvard Medical School and the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women's Hospital | The Paradox of Clinical Experience: The Practice of Older Physicians and Strategies to Change Physician Behaviour |
September 30
12:10 - 2:00
Location:
Bennett Lecture Hall | Roy Romanow
Chair, Commission on the Future of Health Care 2001; Former Premier of Saskatchewan
Reception to follow. | The Past, Present and Future of Medicare |
October 14
12:10 - 2:00 | Raisa Deber
Department of Health Administration, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto | Private Delivery and Public Goals: Mechanisms for Ensuring that Hospitals Can Meet Public Objectives: A Four-Jurisdiction Case Study |
October 28
12:10 – 2:00 | Graeme Laurie*
School of Law, University of Edinburgh, Scotland and Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law | Genetic Privacy: Anti-social concept or fundamental right? |
November 25
12:10 – 2:00 | Dominique Sprumont*
Universities of Neuchatel and Fribourg, Switzerland | The Importance of National Laws in the Internationalization of Clinical Trials
|
December 9
12:10 - 2:00 NEW LOCATION:
Flavelle Dining Room
78 Queen's Park | Carolyn McLeod
Department of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario; Faculty Fellow, Comparative Program on Health & Society, Munk Centre, University of Toronto. This workshop is co-sponsored by the Feminism and Law Workshop Series. | A Feminism Appraisal of Medical Conscience Clauses |
January 6
12:10 - 2:00 | Tom Archibald
SJD student, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto | From Accommodation to Integration: Facing Tensions Between Health Human Resources Policy and Labour Law in Canadian Health Care |
January 20
12:10 - 2:00 | Jerome Singh*
Director, Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA); Howard College School of Law, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa |
Standards of Care in the Antiretroviral Rollout World |
February 3
12:10 - 2:00 | Lisa Forman
SJD student, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto | The Role of International Human Rights in Increasing Access to AIDS Medicines in Developing Countries |
February 25
(Friday)
12:10 - 2:00
NEW LOCATION:
Classroom FLA
78 Queen's Park | Maneesha Deckha*
University of Victoria
Co-sponsored by the Feminism and Law and Diversity Workshops. |
Designing, resigning, and maligning?: Ability, sex, and culture in the sex selection debate |
March 3
12:10 - 2:00 | Glenn Rivard*
General Counsel, Health Canada | UNESCO Bioethics Declarations: Ethics, Science and Human Rights in the 21st Century |
March 17
12:10 - 2:00 | Rebecca Cook
Professor of Law & Faculty Chair in International Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto |
The Role of the Courts in Protecting Women's Health |
NEW DATE
March 24
12:10 - 2:00 NEW LOCATION
Classroom FLB
78 Queen's Park | Adriana Petryna*
Department of Anthropology, New School University, New York | Globalizing Clinical Trials: Pharmaceutical Drug Development and the Ethics of Human Subjects Research |
March 29
(Tuesday)
12:10 - 2:00 | Robert Charney
Ministry of the Attorney General Ontario
Mary Eberts, Eberts Symes Street
Co-sponsored by the the Constitutional Roundtable series. |
The Autism Wars: Autism Treatment and the Charter of Rights in Canadian Courts
|
April 7
12:10 - 2:00 | David Wiwchar*
Managing Editor & Southern Region Reporter
Ha-Shilth-Sa - Canada's Oldest First Nations Newspaper | Bad Blood: First Nations communities respond to lacking research ethics guidelines
|
Presentations marked with an * are in part supported by Genome Canada, through the Ontario Genomics Institute, as part of a grant on "International Comparative Perspectives on the Regulation of Genomics Research and on the Implications of Genetic Testing on Health Systems and Insurance."
For more information about these workshops, please contact Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto.ca
