Lori Beaman
Classics and Religious Studies
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

Louise Bélanger-Hardy
Common Law
Mental health
Liability of health professionals
Legal and ethical dimensions of research involving the aged
Legal issues in home care

Sarah Berger Richardson
Civil Law
Food law and policy
Regulatory oversight of slaughterhouses and meat processing sector
Farm animal welfare
"Agriculture of the middle"
Food sovereignty
Food supply chains

Emmanuelle Bernheim
Civil Law
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

Ivy Bourgeault
Sociological and Anthropological Studies
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

Angela Cameron
Common Law
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
Stefanie Carsley
Common Law
Canadian law and policy responses to assisted reproduction, including in vitro fertilization, surrogate motherhood and sperm, egg and embryo donation

Céline Castets-Renard
Civil Law
Digital laws and policies (EU, US, and Canada)
Data protection and privacy laws and policies
Cybersecurity laws and policies
Tech, surveillance and policing: facial recognition, predictive policing, body cams
COVID-19, apps, and modelling the pandemic in a globalized world

Jennifer Chandler
Common Law
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

Y.Y. Brandon Chen
Common Law
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

Karen Eltis
Civil Law
"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

Patrick Fafard
Public and International Affairs
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

Paul Fedoroff
Medicine (Psychiatry) / Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre
Assessment and treatment of people with problematic sexual interests and behaviours.
Dr. Fedoroff is Head of the Division of Forensic Psychiatry at at the University of Ottawa. He is also Director of the Sexual Behaviours Clinic, which provides treatment for those who have a sexual interest in children.

Audrey Ferron Parayre
Civil Law
Human rights
Health law
Effectiveness of law and knowledge transfer.
Effectiveness of consent to care in implementing patient autonomy

Colleen Flood
Common Law
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
Daphne Gilbert
Common Law
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

Michelle Giroux
Civil Law
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

Vanessa Gruben
Common Law
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

Simon Hatcher
Medicine (Psychiatry) / Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Suicide, self-harm
Psychotherapies and psychiatry in the general hospital setting
E-therapies. Current research programs include a trial of a blended smartphone and face-to-face therapy for men who have attempted suicide, and coach-assisted/computer-delivered cognitive therapy for people on psychiatric waiting lists.

Martha Jackman
Common Law
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

Jamie Chai Yun Liew
Common Law
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

Katherine Lippel
Civil Law
Content and application of occupational health and safety regulatory frameworks
How the law impacts prevention of work accidents and occupational disease, workers' compensation, disability prevention and rehabilitation
Occupational health and safety issues raised by precarious employment

Jason Millar
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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

Jason Nickerson
Common Law / Élisabeth Bruyère Hospital (Clinical Research)
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

Chidi Oguamanam
Common Law
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

Michael Orsini
Political Studies
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

Christine Straehle
Philosophy / Public and International Affairs
Health justice and inequality locally and globally, including vulnerability and the conditions of autonomy in health, and migrant health

Marie-Eve Sylvestre
Civil Law
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

Kumanan Wilson
Medicine (Internal) / Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Immunization
Health surveillance
Health technology, app development
Pandemic preparedness
Child and maternal health
Newborn screening to identify disease risk
Blood safety

Michael Wolfson
Epidemiology and Public Health
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
