The University of Ottawa Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics is excited to welcome Benjamin Mason Meier, JD, LLM, PhD as our 2026–27 Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Health Law, Policy and Ethics. Based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, Professor Meier has over two decades of experience in collaborative research, interdisciplinary teaching, and policy analysis at the intersection of international law and global health. He is a consultant to international organizations, national governments, and nongovernmental organizations, and serves as the Founding Chair of the Human Rights Forum of the American Public Health Association and the Inaugural Chair of the Global Health Law Consortium. His engaged scholarship has led to three foundational Oxford University Press volumes, a quarterly column on Global Health Law in the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, and over 150 interdisciplinary research articles.

We are looking for a strong, curious and highly motivated law graduate to join our team to pursue their Ph.D. in Law within the NeuroSpeech project. Professor Chandler is leading this multi-year, interdisciplinary investigation of the human rights implications of communication neuroprostheses. The research team includes experts in law, ethics, philosophy, neuroscience, neuroengineering, brain-computer interfaces, speech language pathology, neuroimaging, neurophysiology, neurolinguistics, STSS (science, technology and society studies), sociology, disability theory, clinical neuroscience and neurodegenerative conditions. Position open until filled.

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Trauma therapists may value culturally responsive care but lack training in how to assess experiences of discrimination. Understandably, they may not feel that competent to assess discrimination or worry that they are practising outside their scope. Understanding barriers to assessing identity-related stress and trauma in culturally responsive assessment can be a first step to incorporating culturally responsive assessment into clinical practice. Determining whether available evidence supports the worry thoughts or possible barriers we may experience related to culturally responsive assessment can build our motivation and readiness to try using culturally responsive assessment methods.

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Intersecting harms: The psychological impact of police harassment

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Published in response to Canada’s suspension of immigration for people from Ebola-affected countries, this op-ed examines how public health measures can conflict with international legal obligations. Canada's policy here is inconsistent with the International Health Regulations and reflects a broader pattern in which emergency measures risk becoming overbroad, discriminatory, and ineffective. International health law requires responses that are evidence-based, proportionate, and grounded in human rights. Blunt restrictions may not only undermine trust but weaken global disease surveillance rather than improve public health outcomes.

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Canada’s aging population has become a lightning rod for generational anxiety. Commentators increasingly warn that baby boomers are “hoarding” wealth, while draining public coffers through pensions and health care and leaving younger generations to foot the bill. This framing is emotionally resonant – and deeply misleading. The average boomer does indeed hold a sizable share of household wealth while being a net recipient of public pensions and publicly funded health care. But this is not the result of an intergenerational raid on public resources; it is the outcome of decades of asset accumulation by households and sustained taxation to finance a robust welfare state.

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See also from Michael Wolfson: Is the “OK Boomer” Meme Realistic for Major Public Transfers in Canada? Intergenerational Equity and Long-Run Public Policy in Canada (Canadian Public Policy 52(1))

Michael Wolfson will be speaking at the Multipli Health Workshop at the University of Ottawa on July 10.

Wellness has grown into a multi-trillion-dollar industry that increasingly shapes public attitudes and policy through products, information, and advocacy. Drawing on commercial determinant of health frameworks, this article argues that the industry uses political strategies similar to harmful commodity industries, including resisting regulation and promoting individual responsibility. The US MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) movement demonstrates wellness’s growing influence on policymaking while neglecting structural causes of poor health. We call for stronger regulation of health claims, action against online misinformation, and greater investment in equitable health systems.

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Sunscreen is overwhelmingly promoted on TikTok, but content with misinformation exhibits proportionally high levels of audience interaction

The connection between unproven stem cell-based interventions and complementary and alternative medicine in crowdfunding for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis