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Book Launch - Global Health: Ethical Challenges

  • 11 Mar 2021
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
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Join us virtually for the launch of Global Health: Ethical Challenges (2nd edition) with a talk from Eric Meslin followed by a Q & A.

About this Event

This webinar will take place via the Joint Centre for Bioethics YouTube channel live stream, so please be sure to register to receive the link TWO HOURS before the event.

The Joint Centre for Bioethics and the Centre for Global Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto are pleased to co-host this virtual book launch of Global Health Ethical Challenges (2nd edition) by Solomon Benatar and Gillian Brock, eds.

This talk will feature reflections on the book from Eric M. Meslin followed by three brief commentaries from authors Ross Upshur, Angela Mashford-Pringle, and Isabella Bakker who contributed chapters to it. The session will be introduced by Jennifer Gibson, and the Q&A will be facilitated by Erica Di Ruggiero.

Individuals wishing to purchase the book in Canada can place orders through local bookstore Caversham at http://a.cavbk.ca/GHEC2e. Caversham is offering a 10% discount and free shipping to orders placed in Canada.

International orders can be placed directly through the Cambridge website to receive 20% off (please note: they do charge for shipping) via www.cambridge.org/globalhealthlaunch. To receive the discount be sure to enter code ‘GLH2021’ at checkout.

About the Book:

Addressing global health, one of the largest challenges facing humanity this century, is becoming an ever more formidable task with the accelerated destruction of the planet and the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Building upon the successful first edition, this volume outlines how progress towards improving global health relies on understanding its core social, economic, political, environmental and ideological aspects. Multi-disciplinary authors suggest theoretically compelling arguments for what we must do, providing practical recommendations for promoting global and planetary health despite contemporary constraints. The importance of cross-cultural dialogue and utilisation of ethical tools in tackling global health problems is emphasised. Updated, new or expanded topics include: mass displacement of people; novel threats, including new infectious diseases; global justice; child health; gender equality; the extractive industry; philanthrocapitalism; big data and AI; ecological ethics; and planetary sustainability. Offering a diverse range of perspectives, this book is essential for bioethicists, public health practitioners and philosophers.

• Global Health Ethical Challenges: 2nd Edition - Table of Contents

About the Speaker:

Dr. Eric M. Meslin, is President and CEO of the Council of Canadian Academies (CCA). He is Adjunct Professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Senior Fellow at the PHG Foundation University of Cambridge, and 2020-2023 Mentor for the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation. Meslin has published more than 200 articles and book chapters on bioethics aspects of genomics, international health, big data, and research with human participants. He has been a member of advisory committees to the World Health Organization, UNESCO, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Institute of Medicine, UK Biobank, CDC, and Genome Canada.

About the Discussants:

Dr. Ross Upshur is currently the Dalla Lana Chair in Clinical Public Health and Head of the Division of Clinical Public Health at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Scientific Director, Bridgepoint Collaboratory for Research and Innovation and Associate Director of the Lunenfeld Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health. He is a Staff Physician at Bridgepoint Active Healthcare, Sinai Health. In 2015, he was named one of the Top 20 Pioneers in Family Medicine Research in Canada by the College of Family Physicians of Canada and was a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair from 2005-2015.

Dr. Angela Mashford-Pringle is an Algonquin (Timiskaming First Nation) Assistant Professor and Associate Director at the Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. Dr. Mashford-Pringle worked for over a decade at the federal government in Indigenous initiatives. She is the Director of the Master of Public Health – Indigenous Health program (MPH-IH), Director of the Collaborative Specialization in Indigenous Health (CSIH) and Founding Editor of the Turtle Island Journal on Indigenous Health (TIJIH). As the only Canadian and first Indigenous board member at the Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH), she has been finding ways to connect Canadian community organizations to university researchers in Canada.

Isabella Bakker is a Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Politics, York University. Her research examines the interplay between feminist perspectives and international public policy, with a focus on how macroeconomics and fiscal policy affects questions of gender equity, social and intersectional justice. She has held visiting professorships at a number of institutions including the European University Institute, New York University and the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has also held consultancies with the United Nations, the Commonwealth Secretariat, the Canadian government as well as with numerous advocacy groups dedicated to advancing economic and social justice.

Co-Moderators:

Dr. Erica Di Ruggierio is the Director for the Centre for Global Health, Director of the Collaborative Specialization in Global Health, and Associate Professor, Social and Behavioural Health Sciences Division and Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (University of Toronto). Her research addresses the evaluation of population health interventions (policies, programs), their health and health equity impacts, work and health policies, the assessment of global policy agenda-setting processes in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals, the evaluation of global health research capacity building, and of knowledge utilization and exchange strategies to influence public health decision-making at national and global levels.

Dr. Jennifer Gibson is Sun Life Financial Chair in Bioethics and Director of the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics. She is Associate Professor in the Division of Clinical Public Health and the Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. She also directs the WHO Collaborating Centre for Bioethics at the University of Toronto. Jennifer has a PhD in Philosophy with a focus on ethical issues in contemporary health institutions and systems. Jennifer has advised governments and policymakers on topics such as medical assistance in dying, public health emergency preparedness, health technology assessment, drug funding and supply, and resource allocation. Jennifer is co-chair of the COVID-19 Bioethics Table in the Ontario health system response structure. At the Joint Centre for Bioethics, Jennifer founded and leads the 'Ethics and AI for Good Health' program to explore and engage emerging ethical and social issues associated with AI-enabled technologies in health care and public health.

What people are saying about the book:

"Solomon Benatar and Gillian Brock have put together the broadest engagements with the central ethical challenges posed by the evermore encompassing field of global health. This book is a crucial accompaniment to efforts to describe, define and introduce global health for students at all levels. It also is essential reading for global health practitioners. A huge achievement!"

- Arthur Kleinman, Harvard Professor and author of The Soul of Care

"It is one of the finest examples of an interdisciplinary text that will be of great value as we try to navigate the current crisis in global public health."

- Lesley Doyal, Emeritus Professor of Health and Social Care at the School for Policy Studies at the University of Bristol


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