Faculty

The social impact of the increase of nonreligion, including its impact on health practices and institutions

The concept of deep equality as an alternative to tolerance and accommodation in responding to religious diversity

The framing of religion and culture in law and public discourse

Human/non-human animal relations

Human rights and liberties

Mental health

Liability of health professionals

Legal and ethical dimensions of research involving the aged

Legal issues in home care

Food law and policy

Regulatory oversight of slaughterhouses and meat processing sector

Farm animal welfare

"Agriculture of the middle"

Food sovereignty

Food supply chains

Mental health law, with a particular interest in access to justice for people with mental health problems and their rights in the context of consent to care, internment, forced treatment, isolation, and restraint

Self-representation

Youth law

The health workforce, particularly from a gender lens

Migration and integration of health workers from a comparative perspective

Primary and maternity care workforce issues

Care relationships in home and long term care

Psychological health and safety of professional workers

Social justice, with a particular focus on the equality interests of women

Reproductive technologies law

Criminal law, Property law, Family law, Legal theory

Restorative justice

Human rights law

Canadian law and policy responses to assisted reproduction, including in vitro fertilization, surrogate motherhood and sperm, egg and embryo donation

Law and neuroscience, Neuroethics – Legal, ethical and social implications of developments in neuroscience

Regulation of novel psychiatric interventions

Organ donation and transplantation

Legal, ethical  and social issues related to emerging biomedical technologies

Laws and policies that contribute to health inequities and marginalization, particularly among noncitizens and racialized minorities

Health rights litigation

Refugee health care

Social determinants of health

Health care solidarity

Medical tourism

HIV/AIDS

Epidemiology and ethics of international reproductive tourism

Social media and other untraditional data sources in epidemiological investigation

Measuring the impact of science publishing through bibliometrics and alt-metrics

Medical and health sciences education and training

Public health education and communication

Public health communication

"Cyberlaw": artificial intelligence, cyber security and privacy

Impact of new technologies on constitutional rights

Health/bioethics and democratic governance from a comparative law perspective

Gerotechnology

Public health; Trade and environmental policy; Federalism:

Role of the Chief Public Health Officer

Knowledge translation for public health

Science advice for the World Health Organisation

Impact of Canadian federalism and intergovernmental relations on health services delivery and various aspects of public health

Human rights

Health law

Effectiveness of law and knowledge transfer.

Effectiveness of consent to care in implementing patient autonomy

Comparative healthcare policy

Public/Private funding of healthcare systems

Constitutional rights to healthcare

Accountability and governance issues

Impact and regulation of AI and other technologies in healthcare

Charter of Rights and Freedoms, with a particular emphasis on equality rights, reproductive rights and sexual violence

Impact of physician conscience protections on access to contraception and abortion in Canada

Medical assistance in dying

Human rights law

Family law and children’s law

End of life care

Public health

Assisted reproduction, specifically surrogacy and the right to know one’s origins

Legal regulation of various aspects of assisted human reproduction, including contractual disputes over frozen embryos, privacy and access to information, gamete donor anonymity, the regulation and funding of assisted reproductive technologies, and the constitutionality of the Assisted Human Reproduction Act.

Organ donation

Regulation of health professions

Harm reduction, including safe injection sites, vaping, and legal cannabis

Théorie critique

Épistémologie

Droit et éthique

Conceptions et méthodes qualitatives

Soins infirmiers psychiatriques et soins infirmiers en milieu carcéral

Soins infirmiers en santé publique

Aspects sociopolitiques des soins infirmiers

Constitutional law, with a focus on the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the rights of women and other disadvantaged groups

Health law in relation to the Charter and projects to strengthen the capacity of community groups to claim their social-economic rights

Self-harming behaviours

Transcarceration and the production of carceral spaces

Psychiatric care in prisons

Criminalization of HIV nondisclosure

Health in prisons

Immigration, refugee and citizenship law

Meaning of citizenship

Legal barriers for stateless persons to obtain citizenship/nationality

Gendered implications of Canadian law on migrants

How Canada’s immigration and refugee system marginalizes those navigating the process

Clinical decision support

Computerized clinical practice guidelines

Data mining, machine learning, and knowledge discovery

Health informatics

Health management

Ethical Engineering of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (automated vehicles, AI, healthcare robotics, social and military robotics), with a focus on empowering engineers to integrate ethical thinking into their daily workflow

Global public health, including the response to medical and humanitarian emergencies such as epidemics, armed conflicts, and other crises

Policy options for improving access to medicines, vaccines, medical devices, and other health technologies in Canada and globally, including intellectual property rights and biomedical research and development systems

Global drug policy issues, including access to controlled medicines for pain relief, anesthesia, and palliative care

Health issues affecting older adults, including access to health services, long-term care, and the intersection between aging and drug policy (e.g. cannabis use) in Canada

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Global knowledge governance, especially the dynamics of intellectual property and technology law with emphasis on biodiversity and biotechnology

Policy and practical contexts for the exploration of the intersections of knowledge systems, particularly western science and the traditional knowledge of Indigenous and local communities

Global institutional and regime dynamics for negotiating access and distributional challenges in regard to the optimization of benefits of innovation

Health politics and policy

Role of social movements in policy processes

Autism, HIV/AIDS and illnesses that affect marginalized people

Roles of emotions and stigma in policy fields

Health equity and determinants of health (biological, psychological, socioeconomic, structural)

Community-based participatory action research

Patient/citizen/peer partnership models in healthcare

Indigenous health

Tobacco dependence management and tobacco-related inequity

The ecosocial context of health as a human right

Vulnerable populations

Sexual minority health and gay men's health

HIV policy; HIV antiretroviral therapy adherence

Smoking cessation

Ecosocial theory

Social epidemiology

Prevention of obesity and other chronic diseases

Food and nutrition policies

Commercial determinants of health

Food and beverage marketing targeted at children and adolescents

History of sex education, contraception and abortion

History of sexuality

Post-colonial studies

Women's history

Machine learning in pediatric medicine with a focus on clinical automation

Co-Founder and CEO, Hero AI

Criminal law

Punishment theory and legal theory from a critical and multidisciplinary perspective

Punitive regulation of poverty and social conflicts related to the occupation of public spaces in Canada, including conflicts related to homelessness, sex work, drug and alcohol use and political protests

Alternatives to criminalization, including in the Indigenous context

Bullying and mental health

Social neuroscience

Cultural competence in research, therapy, and health care

Phenomenology, assessment, and treatment of OCD

Ethnic differences in psychopathology symptoms and the role of ethnic identity

PTSD and racial trauma in visible minorities and Indigenous groups

Law enforcement and community trauma

Microaggressions and discrimination

Psychedelics and mental health

Gender and sexual mental health issues

Immunization

Health surveillance

Health technology, app development

Pandemic preparedness

Child and maternal health

Newborn screening to identify disease risk

Blood safety

Design of health information systems

Modeling of socio-economic policy and health dynamics

Modeling disease determinants and treatments

Inter-generational equity of Canada’s pension and health care systems

Income inequality and polarization trends

Income and income inequality as determinants of population health