Dr. Michael Da Silva is Permanent Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the University of Southampton School of Law. He is also a member of the New York bar. Dr. Da Silva was previously the Alex Trebek / CIHR Postdoctoral Fellow in AI and Health Care in the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law. He also previously served as a CIHR Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the McGill University Faculty of Law and Institute for Health and Social Policy. He remains affiliated with Ottawa’s Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics and Centre for Law, Technology, and Society. He is widely published in law, philosophy, and bioethics and recently served on a Health Canada External Reference Group on the development of regulatory requirements for adaptive machine learning-enabled medical devices.

Vanessa Gruben is an Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law, a member of the Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics, and Director of the Ottawa Hub for Harm Reduction. After graduating from the University of Ottawa’s Common Law program, she clerked for Chief Justice Richard of the Federal Court of Appeal and then Justice Bastarache of the Supreme Court of Canada. She is co-editor of the fifth edition of Canada’s leading text on health law and policy, Canadian Health Law and Policy (LexisNexis, 2017). Vanessa’s research focuses on professional self-regulation, assisted reproduction, organ donation, and harm reduction.

For over 30 years trade unions have relied on Steven Barrett to represent their interests and the interests of their members. At the Ontario Labour Relations Board he has represented unions in all kinds of proceedings from illegal strike applications, to related employer disputes, to complex unfair labour practice complaints. When the terms of a collective agreement must be determined, trade unions and professional associations call on Steven to conduct their collective bargaining negotiations. Steven also provides strategic advice to trade unions, professional associations and central labour bodies. Steven’s advocacy skills can also be seen in his class action practice. Steven has been consistently named by his peers as a leading labour law practitioner in the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory and is named as a notable practitioner in Chambers Canada. Steven was recognized as the 2022 Lawyer of the Year for Labour and Employment Law in Toronto.

Research and education in the areas of health care policy and health care systems are important means of ensuring that the health needs of communities are met. Through novel curriculum design, implementation and dissemination, Dr. Martin works to increase understanding of health care system issues in the Canadian medical community in hopes of achieving this higher goal. She has worked as an advocate for the preservation and improvement of public health care in Canada for over a decade, and more recently in the United States. She is also an actively practicing family doctor and hospital executive at Women's College Hospital, Toronto. And throughout her career she has maintained an active academic practice in which she participates in clinical and health policy education at all levels.

Danielle is a partner with Cavalluzzo LLP practising in the areas of workers’ and Indigenous rights, equality, health and Aboriginal law. She is also the Chair of the firm’s Student Committee. She represents unions and associations, regulated professionals including nurses and midwives, and First Nations in diverse contexts including labour disputes, government relations, human rights and constitutional law, health equity, pay equity, professional regulation, judicial reviews and appeals. She has particular expertise in the health care, policing and public sectors. She has twice represented the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) as an intervener in appeals relating to workplace gender discrimination, first in Canada v. Johnstone, a leading case on family status discrimination, and second in Fraser v. Canada, a Supreme Court of Canada case on adverse effect discrimination and pension equality for women with caregiving responsibilities.

Pat Armstrong is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus at the York University Department of Sociology and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Focusing on social policy of women, work, and the health and social services, she has published widely, co-authoring and co-editing numerous books as well as journal articles and book chapters. She makes the relationship between paid and unpaid work central to her analysis. In addition to numerous board appointments and leadership roles, she has served as an expert witness in more than a dozen cases heard before bodies ranging from the Federal Court to federal Human Rights Tribunals on issues related to women’s health care work and to pay equity. Funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, she was Principal Investigator on the 10-year project "Reimagining Long-term Residential Care: An International Study of Promising Practices".

Ivy Lynn Bourgeault is a Professor in the School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies at the University of Ottawa and is the University Research Chair in Gender, Diversity and the Professions. She leads the Canadian Health Workforce Network and the Empowering Women Leaders in Health initiative. Dr. Bourgeault has garnered an international reputation for her research on the health workforce, particularly from a gender lens. Past projects have focused on the migration and integration of health workers from a comparative perspective and on primary and maternity care workforce issues. Recent projects focus on care relationships in home and long-term care, and on psychological health and safety of workers. She has been a consultant to various provincial Ministries of Health, Health Canada, the pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the OECD, and to the World Health Organization. She was inducted into the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences in September 2016 and received the 2016/17 University of Ottawa Award for Excellence in Research.

Dr. Shoucri is a family physician at the St. Michael’s Hospital Academic Family Health Team in Toronto. Prior to his medical training, he completed undergraduate and graduate degrees in Law. He has a full-time clinical appointment in the Department of Family and Community Medicine (DFCM) at the University of Toronto since 2016. As a resident at St. Michael’s from 2012–2014, he undertook a literature review and needs assessment for a medical-legal partnership housed within the SMH. This work supported a successful application for funding from Legal Aid Ontario to develop the Health Justice Initiative (HJI), a partnership between St. Michael’s Hospital and legal clinics ARCH Disability Law Centre, Aboriginal Legal Services Toronto, HIV & AIDS Legal Clinic of Ontario, and Neighbourhood Legal Services.

Constance MacIntosh is a Full Professor at the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University. She served as the Director for Dalhousie’s Health Law Institute for five years, the Acting Scholarly Director for the MacEachen Institute for Public Policy and Governance, and Viscount Bennett Professor of Law (2018-2021). Constance has worked for two decades at the intersection of law and policy with the health justice experiences of vulnerable populations. This has involved work including Indigenous health governance, and how health status – especially disabilities – impact migrants.

Lorian Hardcastle is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Calgary, with a joint appointment to the Department of Community Health Sciences in the Cumming School of Medicine. She is also a member of the One Health Consortium, O’Brien Institute for Public Health, and Conjoint Health Research Ethics Board at the University of Calgary. Lorian is currently involved in research on antimicrobial resistance (funded by Alberta's Major Innovation Fund), AI and health (funded by the CIHR), regulation of long-term care, and legal and policy issues arising from COVID-19. Lorian's work has been published in numerous legal and health policy journals. She is a frequent contributor to health policy debates in the media. Her writing has appeared in several Canadian newspapers including the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Calgary Herald, Edmonton Journal, and Ottawa Citizen.

Sara Allin is an Associate Professor of Health Policy at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. She is also Director of the North American Observatory on Health Systems and Policies (NAO), a collaborative partnership and research centre focused on sub-national and international health systems research to support evidence-informed policy making. Sara’s research and teaching span comparative health systems and policies, health system performance and health equity. As Director of the NAO, Sara leads a program of research that includes both rapid reviews in response to pressing health policy questions posed by decision-makers and health sector stakeholders, and longer term in-depth studies of health systems structures and reforms. She applies methods including qualitative case studies and quantitative analyses of survey and administrative data to health policy questions within and across Canada, and in comparison with other high-income countries.

Louise Sweatman BScN, LLB, MSc, is a Consultant in health law and regulatory policy with more than 25 years of working on behalf of many professions with a lifetime focus on facilitating national and international mobility for professions. She was CEO of Canada’s Testing Company, the premier licensure and certification testing company in Canada. It developed, administered and maintained national and international entry-to-practice assessments for many health care professions. She was a founding member and the first Chair of the Canadian Network of Agencies of Regulation (CNAR) guiding its incorporation and launching the primary annual health regulatory conference in Canada. She has worked at the International Council of Nurses in Geneva and the Canadian Nurses Association where she launched the regulatory policy department. Louise has published many articles on professional regulation, ethics and the law for health professionals. Her most recent work includes analyzing Canadian and international models on national licensure and identifying potential frameworks and strategic advice for implementation in Canada. Recently, for the Canadian Medical Association’s Pan-Canadian Licensure Initiative, she researched and developed constitutionally valid models that could support national licensure for physicians.

Ian Stedman is an Assistant Professor, Canadian Public Law and Governance in the School of Public Policy and Administration at York University. He is cross-appointed to the graduate programs in Osgoode Hall Law School, Science and Technology Studies, and in Socio-Legal Studies. After being called to the bar of Ontario in 2009, Professor Stedman practiced law in the private sector before moving to the public sector. His expertise in public sector governance, particularly in relation to ethics and accountability, underscores much of his academic work. Professor Stedman's research program is focused both on the law of public sector governance and accountability and also on bringing that literature to bear on the regulation of innovative and emerging technologies, particularly in healthcare. Being a person with a rare disease, Professor Stedman also advocates for the rare disease community and has a growing research program focusing on the technologies and policies driving greater personalization in healthcare. He held the inaugural research fellowship in Artificial Intelligence Law & Ethics at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children’s Centre for Computational Medicine. His work in the area of law and technology earned him the IP Osgoode David Vaver Medal for Excellence in IP Law in 2020.

Dr. Devin Singh is a practicing Pediatric Emergency Medicine Doctor at SickKids (the Hospital for Sick Children) in Toronto, Canada. He is one of Canada's first physicians to specialize in clinical AI. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Western Ontario in Medical Sciences and went on to work for the Ontario Provincial Government. Afterward he attended medical school at the University of Sydney, Australia, followed by a pediatric residency and emergency medicine subspecialty training at SickKids Hospital. His fellowship in clinical AI was completed at SickKids. He also has graduate training in Computer Science from the University of Toronto, Canada.

Valorie holds the Canada Research Chair in Health Service Geographies. She is a health geographer by training. As such, she is interested in the spatial and place-based dimensions of health and health care. She broadly conceives of herself as a health services researcher, and has an ongoing interest in understanding lived experiences of accessing needed/wanted health and social care services. Her research interests are characterized by four areas: (1) disability and chronic illness; (2) primary health care; (3) palliative health and social care; and (4) medical tourism. Medical tourism raises important questions for the safety of patients, creates uncertainties about impacts on patients’ home countries and destination countries, and creates ethical issues for people who both have and have not participated in medical tourism. Valorie's research team studies all of these issues.

Will Tao is a Canadian Immigration and Refugee Lawyer. He co-founded Heron Law Offices in 2021 and provides legal services in all areas of Canadian immigration and refugee law. He won the Canadian Bar Association (CBA) Immigration Section Founders' Award for his accomplishments in his first five years of practice (2020) and won the CBA Immigration's Volunteer Recognition Award (co-winner) for his work with the Section's Anti-Racism Committee (2021). Will also provides strategic advice and consultation to government, media, educational institutions, and businesses on immigration-refugee, decolonization, and race/inclusion-related issues. Will previously taught Immigration Law through the UBC Certificate in Immigration: Laws, Policies and Procedures (CILPP) program. He is currently studying the impact of Canadian immigration’s use of automated decision-making systems and AI on applicants from the Global South. Will is joined by Candy Ngo Fai Hui, a Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant and licensed pharmacist also with Heron Law Offices.

Dr. Margaret Walton-Roberts is a human geographer trained in the UK and Canada who focuses on international migration. She is a professor at Wilfrid Laurier University and the Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA), Waterloo Canada. Her research interests are in gender and migration, transnational networks, and immigrant settlement. Her current research focuses on gender and the international migration of health care professionals, and international student migration. She has been awarded several external grants for her research, and has published over 43 book chapters, and more than 50 journal articles. Her latest edited book, Global Migration, Gender and Health Professional Credentials: Transnational Value Transfers and Losses (2022) is published with University of Toronto Press.

Colleen M. Flood is Professor at the University of Ottawa and a University Research Chair in Health Law & Policy. She is also inaugural Director of the University of Ottawa Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics. From 2000–2015 she was a Professor and Canada Research Chair at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, with cross-appointments to the School of Public Policy and the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation. From 2006–2011 she served as Scientific Director at the Canadian Institute for Health Services and Policy Research (CIHR).

Greg has worked in three professions in his lifetime: lawyer (criminal prosecution and defense); academic (Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC, the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Regina, and Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto); and public servant (Deputy Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs in Saskatchewan, Deputy Minister to the Premier and Cabin Secretary in Saskatchewan, and Executive Director of the Royal Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada). He has also done consulting for governments and international organizations on cabinet systems and decision-making, public policy capacity building and health system restructuring.

Bryan Thomas is a Senior Research Fellow with the University of Ottawa Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics and Adjunct Professor with the Faculty of Law. His research spans a wide range of topics including Canadian and comparative health law and policy, health rights litigation, long-term care, global health law, and the role of religious argument in legal and political discourse. Dr. Thomas holds an S.J.D. from University of Toronto and a Master’s degree in Philosophy from Dalhousie.