Past Events and Videos
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Café Scientifique: The Law, Policy and Ethics of Legal Cannabis (video coming soon)
Anindya Sen
University of Waterloo Department of Economics
Marie-Eve Sylvestre
University of Ottawa Faculty of Law
Phillip Shaer
Chief Legal Officer, Canopy Growth Corporation
October 17 2018
Designer Babies: Why Let the Stork Decide? (video coming soon)
Joséane Chrétien
Doctoral Candidate
McGillUniversity Faculty of Law
Professor Vanessa Gruben
University of Ottawa Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics
Michael Orsini
University of Ottawa Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics
September 19 2018
Thinking about complexity and health: The implications of complexity theory for health policy and law (video coming soon)
Professor Robert Geyer
Lancaster University Dept. Politics, Philosophy and Religion
U.K.
Tom Webb
Lecturer
Lancaster University Law School
U.K.
September 12 2018
Égalité et liberté dans les politiques de santé
François Hudon
Collaborateur d'enseignement et de recherche
Institut éthique histoire humanités (iEH2)
Université de Genève, Switzerland
June 15 2018
Annual Ottawa–McGill Graduate Colloquium in Health Law, Policy and Ethics
May 4, 5 2018
Evidence-Based Regulation for Safer Nursing Homes
Lorian Hardcastle
Faculty of Law, University of Calgary
March 29 2018
Is Two-Tier Care the Future? Private Finance in Canadian Medicare Conference
April 6, 7 2018
Keynote Panel: The Past, Present and Future of Private Finance for Medicare in Canada
Martha Jackman
Greg Marchildon
Danielle Martin
Robyn Tamblyn (Chair)
Panel 1: Lessons from Other Countries on Parallel Private Finance for Medicare
Fiona McDonald
Steve Thomas
Zeynep Or
Gail F. Paech (Chair)
Panel 2: The Politics and Economics of Private Finance for Medicare in Canada
Jeremiah Hurley
Mark Stabile
Ake Blomqvist
Jeffrey Turnbull (Chair)
Panel 3: Setting the Context: The Politics of Private Finance and Queues
Carolyn Tuohy
Katharine G. Young
Carissima Mathen (Chair)
Panel 4: Legislative and Policy Options – Part I
Sara Allin
Vanessa Gruben
Bryan Thomas
Allan Rock (Chair)
Panel 5: Legislative and Policy Options – Part II
Amélie Quesnel-Vallée
Michael Rachlis
Colleen M. Flood
Patrick Fafard (Chair)
An Afternoon of Interdisciplinary Conversation between Health and Law Researchers
March 23 2018
Stigma and the Role of Courts: The Disquieting Case of AIDS
Justice Edwin Cameron
Constitutional Court of South Africa
March 20 2018
A Care Manifesto: (Part-)Time For All
Jenny Nedelsky
Osgoode Hall Law School
Colleen Flood
uOttawa CHLPE
March 9 2018
What Does the Law Say about Deep Brain Stimulation?
Jennifer Chandler
uOttawa CHLPE
Feburary 27 2018
Intellectual Property, Global Health, and the New International Economic Order
Sam Halabi
School of Law, University of Missouri
U.S.A.
Adam Houston
uOttawa CHLPE
February 13 2018
Workshop & Lunch: Qualitative Data Analysis Software
Lindsey McKay
Postdoctoral Fellow
uOttawa CHLPE
Feburary 20 2018
The Gift of Life: Emerging Legal and Ethical Issues in Organ Donation in Canada
Erin Nelson
Faculty of Law, University of Alberta
Vanessa Gruben
uOttawa CHLPE
January 31 2018
Assistive Technology as Health Care: Promises and Cautions to the Aging Population
Katherine Wayne
Postdoctoral Fellow
uOttawa CHLPE
Hajer Chalghoumi
Postdoctoral Fellow
School of Psychology
November 29 2017
Honouring the Water Walkers: Indigenous Peoples and Access to and Protection of Water
Aimée Craft
Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba
Laurie Chan
Canada Research Chair in Toxicology and Environmental Health
University of Ottawa
November 15 2017
Film, pizza et débat avec Annie Thébaud-Mony : «Les sentinelles»
November 13 2017
A presentation of the findings of the Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health
Maureen McTeer, Karti Sandilya
October 31 2017
Eating the Flesh with Its Life? Jehovah's Witnesses and the Law and Ethics of "Bloodless" Transplants
Tracey Elliott
Leicester Law School
U.K.
September 25 2017
Les plaintes des patients représentent-ils un outil efficace pour améliorer la qualité des soins dans le système de santé?
Catherine Régis
Faculté de droit, Université de Montreal
September 19 2017
Getting Research Grants
Jennifer Chandler, Steven Hoffman, Ian Kerr, Kumanan Wilson
May 30 2017
Israel's Successful Strategies for Controlling Pharmaceutical Costs – Relevance to Canada?
Bruce Rosen, Matthew Brougham
May 16 2017
A Human Right to Health
Michael Da Silva, Colleen M. Flood
April 4 2017
Tobacco Plain Packaging: Public Policy, Private Rights?
David Sweanor, Teresa Scassa
February 1 2017
Reproductive Labour: Reflections on the Law and Policy of Surrogacy
Bronwyn Parry, Pam MacEachern, Erin Lepine
November 16 2016
A View from Abroad: How Can Australia’s Experience Inform the Architecture of Pharmacare?
Ruth Lopert, Danielle Martin, Marc-André Gagnon
October 25 2016
Trans-Pacific Partnership, Intellectual Property and Health – What’s at Stake?
Thana de Campos, Marc-André Gagnon, Michael Geist, Ronald Labonté
October 24 2016
Ottawa Conference on Medical Assistance in Dying
Video 1, Video 2, Video 3
October 14, 15 2016
The German System of Universal Long-Term Care, Vouchers-for-Care, and Lessons for Canada
Lorraine Frisina Doetter, Colleen M. Flood
September 29 2016
Rethinking Interventions to Address Social Determinants of Health
Gemma Carey
September 21 2016
Conceptualizing Political Trust in the Modern Welfare State
David Vitale, Patrick Fafard
September 14 2016
Caring About Care: A Conversation About Gender, Work and Health
Ivy Bourgeault, Tamara Daly, Allison Williams
May 4 2016
A Discussion on Mitochondrial Replacement, Uterine Transplants, and Artificial Gametes
John Appleby, Vanessa Gruben
April 7 2016
The Future of Marijuana and the Law
Hugo M. Alves, Michael D. Lickver, Thana de Campos
March 23 2016