Webcast: Seminar on Differing Perspectives on the Gardasil/HPV-Vaccination Program in Ontario

Friday, May 2, 2008

The Faculty of Law, with the University of Toronto's Department of Public Health Sciences and Joint Centre for Bioethics, has initiated a seminar series on "Public Health Ethics, Law and Policy."

The inaugural seminar was held on the subject of "Differing Perspectives on the Gardasil/HPV-Vaccination Program in Ontario" at the Faculty of Law on March 20, 2008. It featured the following speakers:

  • Vinita Dubey, Associate Medical Officer of Health, Division of Communicable Diseases, Toronto Public Health
  • Anne Rochon Ford, Coordinator, Women and Health Protection Working Group
  • Angus Dawson, Visiting Faculty Fellow, Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
  • Joanna Erdman, Co-Director, International Reproductive and Sexual Health Law Programme
  • CHAIR, Trudo Lemmens, Associate Professor, Faculties of Law and Medicine

This seminar is now available to be viewed as a webcast.

Click here to watch the seminar over the web.

 

SJD student Y.Y. Brandon Chen - "Refugee health-care cuts threaten everyone’s access"

Thursday, May 24, 2012

SJD student Y.Y. Brandon Chen has written a commentary in the Toronto Star looking at the impact on provincial health-care systems of the federal government’s recent decision to scale back temporary health-care coverage for refugees and refugee claimants ("Refugee health-care cuts threaten everyone’s access," May 23, 2012).

Read the full commentary on the Toronto Star website.

The High Costs of Medical Tourism

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Global health-law conference tackles ethics and issues

By Mark Witten  

Prof. Colleen Flood editor of new book, "Data Data Everywhere: Access and Accountability?"

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Data Data Everywhere: Access and Accountability?, ed. Colleen FloodProf. Colleen Flood is the editor of a recently published book, Data Data Everywhere: Access and Accountability? (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2011).

Looking for solutions: Symposium on the Reference re Assisted Human Reproduction Act

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

In the Reference re Assisted Human Reproduction Act (2010 SCC 61), the Supreme Court of Canada issued a divided 4-4-1 opinion that declared several provisions of the federal Assisted Human Reproduction Act ("AHRA") ultra vires. As a result, many core provisions of the AHRA were declared unconstitutional, particularly those related to the introduction of a federal licensing and control system. Other provisions, for example those related to the federal government's power to regulate the reimbursement of expenses for surrogacy or gamete donation, remain intact.

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