Thursday, January 14, 2016 - 12:30pm to Friday, January 15, 2016 - 1:55pm
Location: 
Solarium (room FA2) Falconer Hall - 84 Queen's Park

HEALTH LAW, ETHICS & POLICY SEMINAR SERIES 

presents 

Bartha Knoppers OC OQ PhD
Professor, Canada Research Chair in Law and Medicine, and
Director, Centre of Genomics and Policy
Faculty of Medicine, McGill University

 Data Sharing and Human Rights 

Commentator:
Dr. Thomas J. Hudson, OC MD
President and Scientific Director, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
Faculty of Medicine, Depts. of Medical Biophysics and Molecular Genetics

12:30 – 2:00
Thursday, January 14, 2016
Solarium (room FA2) – Falconer Hall
84 Queen’s Park 

Bartha Maria Knoppers is known internationally as a leading expert on the ethical and legal aspects of human genetics, genomics and biotechnology. Dr. Knoppers served as chair of the International Ethics Committee of the Human Genome Organization from 1996 to 2004, and was a member of the International Bioethics Committee of UNESCO that drafted the Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights. In 2013, she became chair of the Ethics and Regulatory Working Group of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health. She is also Canada Research Chair in Law and Medicine and a professor at McGill University.  She is the founder of the International Consortium - Public Population Project in Genomics (P3G), and of the Centre of Genomics and Policy at McGill University. She specializes in international policy making in the life sciences, with particular expertise in setting up research consortia and attendant needs in consent, confidentiality and IP. 

Dr. Knoppers holds numerous doctor of laws honorary degrees and is both an Officer of the Order of Canada and of the Ordre national du Québec. 

 

A light lunch will be served. 

 

For more information about this workshop, please contact Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto.ca.