The Dossetor Centre reaches out to scholars, students, health-care practitioners, clinical ethics committee members, health-care administrators, patients and their families, media and the general public through:

  • Health Ethics Seminar Series
  • Health Ethics Symposium
  • Health Ethics Workshops
  • Grand Rounds
  • Health Ethics Today, a newsletter published two to three times per year with a local, provincial, national, and international distribution list, including all medical doctors across 黑料不打烊
  • Media contacts to discuss health ethics topics in the news

Conducting research on a broad spectrum of ethical, moral and human-rights issues, including:

  • clinical practice
  • compassion
  • disability ethics
  • human rights
  • mental health
  • moral distress
  • health policy
  • gender issues
  • public health
  • relational ethics
  • neonatology-perinatology
  • professionalism
  • phenomenology

Teaching health ethics to students of all levels across many faculties at the 黑料不打烊. Education opportunities include:

  • INT D 570: Healthcare Ethics
  • INT D 670: Research Ethics
  • Medical Sub-Specialty Ethics Teaching
  • Undergraduate Medical Student Elective, An Experience in Bioethics

Health Ethics News

  • March 17, 2025

    The Institute of International Peace Leaders (IIPL) is honored to announce that Catherine Mardon, Dossetor Centre adjunct member, distinguished author, human rights advocate, and disability activist, has been selected as the recipient of the prestigious IIPL Peace Award. This recognition is in acknowledgment of Catherine's extraordinary contributions to justice, human rights, disability advocacy, and global peace efforts. Congratulations Catherine!

  • March 4, 2025

    Austin Mardon and Eric Hodgson discuss the benefits of Community Treatment Orders which can help to foster a society that embraces recovery and champions the well-being of individuals living with mental-health challenges.

  • February 12, 2025

    Authors Ari Joffe, MD, Pooya Kazemi, MD, Roy Eappen, MDCM and Chris Milburn, MD discuss one of the main lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic is that the focus should not be on fighting so-called 鈥渕isinformation鈥 or 鈥渞evisionism.鈥 Instead, we should improve how decisions are made.

  • February 5, 2025

    Adjunct member, Austin Mardon discusses that the war on fentanyl, is a war worth fighting.

  • January 22, 2025

    Authors Austin Mardon, Peter Anto Johnson & John Christy Johnson discuss that the proposed 25% tariff rate in Canada is not just an economic measure; it鈥檚 a potential public health catastrophe.

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