Health Law and Policy Projects and Conferences

Projects

The Health Law and Policy Group and its individual faculty members have been involved in a wide variety of projects.

• The Chaoulli Case. A web page of related resources and commentaries.
• Book page for Reproductive Health and Human Rights: Integrating Medicine, Ethics and Law, by Rebecca J. Cook, Bernard M. Dickens and Mahmoud F. Fathalla
  • includes case studies, updates and links to foreign-language editions.
• Defining the Medicare Basket

Conferences

• Health, Law, and Ethics: Regulating Creation and the Assisted Human Reproduction Act (2018)
• Included a debate, "Be it resolved: "The prohibition on payment for surrogacy and gametes in Canada should be repealed." A video of the debate is available for viewing.
• Medical Aid in Dying (MAID) for Persons Living with Mental Illness (2017). Includes full video of the conference.
• 2012 National Health Law Conference: Global Health Challenges & the Role of Law (PDF)
• Reference Re Assisted Human Reproduction Act: Implications of the Supreme Court’s Decision
• The proceedings were gathered into a book, Regulating Creation: The Law, Ethics, and Policy of Assisted Human Reproduction
• The Ethics of Ghost Authorship in Biomedical Research: Concerns and Remedies
• See also this interview with Prof. Lemmens: "How Scientific Literature Has Become Part of Big Pharma's Marketing Machine and How Being Nice Hurts Canada: 5 Questions with Ghostwriting Expert Trudo Lemmens"
• Access to Care, Access to Justice
  The Legal Debate over Private Health Insurance in Canada
• Roy Romanow speaks on "The Past, Present and Future of Medicare" as part of the Health Law and Seminar Series (September 30, 2004).
• Health Law Day 2005
  Genetic Information and the Law
• National Health Law Conference 2004
  Who Gets It? Who Decides? Issues of Access and Allocation in Health Care
• Anatomy of a Crisis: Law & Policy Responses to SARS.
  Includes a set of newspaper commentaries by the speakers based on their conference presentations, and related resources.
• Invitational Workshop on a Health Council
  Includes the workshop final report and complete presentations and appendices.
• Third Annual Health Law Day