Health Law Institute Schulich School of Law

Seminar Series

Join us for our lunch time Health Law and Policy Seminar Series

The Institute hosts an extremely popular series of seminars that are open to the public and attracts a broad audience from across the university, government, and health care communities. Invited scholars and practitioners share their knowledge and reflections on the latest health law and policy issues. All Welcome!

When?

12:10 - 1:20 pm
Time is allotted for questions and discussion.

Where?

FALL TERM: Zoom Webinars

Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84807019884

with Closed Captioning

WINTER TERM: In Person

ROOM 104 | Weldon Law Building | 6061 University Ave.

Registration? Cost?

No registration required. No fee.
Contact: hli@dal.ca or 902-494-6881

SEMINAR SERIES: 2021-22

Friday September 17
Lessons in Access and Equity: The Global COVID-19 Response Fifa Rahman, Civil Society Representative for the WHO Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator [watch]
Friday October 8
Using Restorative Approaches to Reveal and Remove Professional and Institutional Barriers to Human Flourishing Holly Northam, Faculty of Health, School of Nursing, Midwifery & Public Health, University of Canberra, Australia [watch]
Friday October 29
Troubled Waters" The Health & Mental Health Impacts of Environmental Racism Ingrid R.G. Waldron, Professor & HOPE Chair in Peace & Health, Global Peace & Social Justice Program, Dept. of History, Faculty of Humanities, McMaster University [watch]
Friday November 19
ARV's, COVID-19 Vaccine Equity and Intellectual Property Protections Marlise Richter, Senior Researcher, Health Justice Initiative, South Africa [watch]
Friday January 21
On Policing Pandemics: Resistance to Medico-Legal Surveillance & Enforcement Alexander McClelland, Institute of Criminology & Criminal Justice (ICCJ), Carleton University [watch]
Friday February 11
Realizing Human Rights and Social Justive in Mental Health Marina Morrow, Professor & Chair, School of Health Policy & Management, Faculty of Health, York University [watch]
Friday March 4
Foregrounding Justive in the Use of Novel Artificial Womb Technologies Claire Horn, Killan Postdoctoral Fellow, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University [watch]
Friday March 18
COVID-19 and Migrant Workers: Essential and Vulnerable, but not Necessarily Essential Enough Constance MacIntosh, Acting Scholarly Director, MacEachern Institute for Public Policy, Professor, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University [watch]

SEMINAR SERIES: 2020-21 (ARCHIVE)

Friday September 18
Algorithmic Racism, Healthcare & The Law:'Race-Based' Data Another Trojan Horse? LLana James, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto [watch]
Friday October 2
Can Health Law Help Protect Trans Youth from Conversion Therapy? Florence Ashley, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto [watch]
Friday November 6
The Impact of COVID-19 on People with Disabilities Michael Ashley Stein, Executive Director, Harvard Law School Project on Disability, Extraordinary Professor, Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, South Africa [watch] *ASL Interpretation Available
Friday November 20
The Mifepristone Policy and Regulatory Journey: Addressing Inequitable Abortion Access in Canada Wendy V. Norman, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Faculty of Public Health & Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine [watch]
Friday January 15
The Health of People who Experience Imprisonment in Canada Fiona Kouyoumdjian, Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University [watch]
Friday January 29
The Matters of Black Health - Resilience and Determination Sharon Davis-Murdoch, Co-President of the Health Association of African Canadians, Nova Scotia [watch]
Friday February 26
Mental Health and Criminal Courts in the Arctic Priscilla Ferrazzi, Partnerships & Innovation, Queen's University, Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine & School of Public Health, University of Alberta
Friday March 19
AIDS Quarantine in BC: Metaphor or Reality? Eli Manning, School of Social Work, Dalhousie University, Research Scholar, Health Law Institute, Dalhousie University [watch]

SEMINAR SERIES: 2019-20 (ARCHIVE)

Friday September 13
Anti-Black Racism, Homophobia and Canadian Blood Donation Practices OmiSoore Dryden, James R. Johnston Chair in Black Canadian Studies, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University [watch]
Friday October 4
Citizens and Science in a Digitized World Kimberlyn McGrail, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia [watch]
Friday November 22
The Impact of the Child Welfare System on Maternal Health Meaghan Thumath, Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford, United Kingdom [watch]
Friday November 29
Institutional Violence and Disability Memorials Linda Steele, Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney, Australia [watch]
Friday January 17
Abortion, Harm Reduction and the New Self-Care Movement Kinga Jelinska, Women Help Women, International Mariana Prandini Assis, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University
Friday January 31
Scale-Appropriateness in Food Law: Solution for Community Health Disparities? Catherine L. Mah, Faculty of Health, Dalhousie University Jamie Baxter, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University [watch]
Friday February 28
Troutville: Where People Discuss Fairness Issues Yukiko Asada, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University [watch]
Friday March 20
Unaffordable Essential Medicines: More Than Just a Rights Violation Nav Persaud, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto CANCELLED

SEMINAR SERIES: 2018-19 (ARCHIVE)

Friday September 21
Advocacy for the Health Care Rights of Prisoners Jennifer Metcalfe, Prisoners’ Legal Services, British Columbia
Friday October 12
Racing with Testosterone: Regulating Women’s Hormones in Elite Sport Katrina Karkazis, Global Health Justice Partnership, Yale University [watch]
Friday November 2
Guaranteed Income and Health Kwame McKenzie, Wellesley Institute and University of Toronto Department of Psychiatry [watch]
Friday November 23
Of Bricks and Blood: Institutional Conscience Objections to MAID and Abortion Daphne Gilbert, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa [watch]
Friday January 18
Cannabis Legislation: Past, Present and Future Robert Strang, Chief Public Health Officer, Nova Scotia [watch]
Friday February 8
Advance Requests for Medical Assistance in Dying: Ethical and Legal Considerations Jennifer Gibson, Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto [watch]
Friday March 1
Mosquito Advocacy: Implementing Evidence-Informed Solutions in Change Resistant Environments Cindy Blackstock, First Nations Child and Family Caring Society and McGill University School of Social Work [watch]
Friday March 15
The Public Sector and Vaccine Development: A Case Study of the Merck [sic] Ebola Vaccine Matthew Herder, Health Law Institute and Department of Pharmacology, Dalhousie University [watch]

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