Date of Seminar
| Speaker | Title |
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Thursday October 14 2021 | Lisa Forman, Canada Research Chair in Human Rights & Global Health Equity, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto | “Can we move beyond vaccine apartheid? The right to health and global access to COVID vaccines” |
Thursday October 28, 2021 | Sonu K. Gaind, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto Commentator: Derryck H. Smith, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia | "Canada's Headlong Assisted Death Expansion: Compassionate Medical Assistance in Dying, or Negligent Social Suicide Promotion?" |
| Thursday, November 11, 2021 | Jillian Clare Kohler, PhD Professor, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, Dalla Lana School of Public Health & Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy Commentators: Jonathan Cushing, Transparency International and Mostafa Hunter, Corruption and Risk Managament, UNDP | “Corruption Risks in the Deployment of COVID-19 Vaccines: A Clear and Present Threat to Global Public Health” |
| January 20, 2022 | Leigh Turner, Director, Centre for Bioethics, University of California Irvine Commentator: Amy Zarzeczny, Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Regina | "The American Stem Cell Sell: Bioethics, Law, and U.S. Businesses Selling Unproven and Unlicensed "Stem Cell" Interventions" |
| February 3, 2022 | Patrick Garon-Sayegh, SJD candidate, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto Commentators: Bernard Dickens, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
Ross Upshur, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto | "Of Medical Malpractice and Methodology: Health Law Research and the Quality of Clinical Care" |
| February 17, 2022 | Ruqaiijah Yearby, Professor, Faculty of Law, Saint Louis University, Commentator: Emily Simmonds, Centre for Wise Practices in Indigenous Health, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto | "Systemic Racism, The Government's Pandemic Response, and Racial Inequalities in COVID-19" |
| March 2, 2022 | Deborah Stienstra, Jarislowsky Chair in Social Work Director, Life Work Well Research Centre & Valérie Grand'Maison, researcher, Live Work Well Research Centre, Guelph University Commentators: Sarah Jama, co-founder Disability Justice Network of Ontario
Gabrielle Peters, co-founder Disability Filibuster | "Consistently excluded: A disability inclusion analysis of Canada’s COVID-19 policies" |
| March 31, 2022 | Kevin Bardosh, PhD, Affiliate Assistant Professor, School of Public Health, University of Washington Stefan Baral, MD, MPH, Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Rachel Gur-Arie, PhD, Hecht-Levi Fellow, Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University Trudo Lemmens, LLM (bioethics), DCL, Scholl Chair in Health Law and Policy, Faculty of Law and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto Commentators: Alison Thompson, PhD, Associate Professor, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto Bill Bogart, LLB, LLM, Distinguished Professor of Law, Windsor University Faculty of Law Peter Doshi, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Maryland School of Pharmacy | "The Unintended Consequences of COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates: Why They May Cause More Harm Than Good" |
