Canada
Prof. Elysée Nouvet
Co-Principle Investigator
Western University
Email: nouvete@gmail.com
Biography: I am a medical anthropologist and an Assistant Professor in the School of Health Studies (Global Health) at Western University in London, Ontario. I have developed and co-led research on perceptions and moral experiences of: clinical trials during the West-Africa Ebola epidemic; research consent and compensation practices in low-income countries; palliative care in disasters and public health emergencies; drones and tuberculosis diagnostics and treatment in Madagascar; short-term medical missions in Central America; and end-of-life care in Canadian hospitals, and critical care triage during the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic. Uniting my work is a commitment to bringing the lived experiences of those on the receiving end of initiatives developed in the name of advancing global health and equity to bear on understandings and assessments of the value, limits, and impacts of those initiatives. My research is conducted in collaboration with non-governmental organizations, government agencies, and community groups. I am a member of the WHO COVID-19 Research Roadmap Social Sciences working group (WG), and Good Participatory Practices and Community Engagement Task Force with the WHO within that group. I am also a member of the Covid-19 Research Coalition Ethics Working Group, that is a partner on this project.
Prof. John Pringle
Co-investigator
McGill University, Médecins Sans Frontière
Email: johndpringle@gmail.com
Biography: Professor John Pringle is a nurse and epidemiologist with a PhD in public health and bioethics. His program of research is at the intersection of global health ethics and humanitarian action.
Prof. Matthew Hunt
Co-investigatorMcGill University
Email:matthew.hunt1@mcgill.ca
Biography: Matthew Hunt, PT, PhD, is an Associate Professor and the Director of Research in the School of Physical and Occupational Therapy at McGill University, as well as a researcher at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation and the Centre for Research on Ethics. Dr Hunt’s research focuses on two areas of inquiry: ethics and global health engagement, and ethics and rehabilitation. In the area of global health and ethics, he is currently carrying out research on the ethics of closing humanitarian projects, disability inclusive disaster risk reduction, and the intersection of values and humanitarian innovation. He co-leads the Humanitarian Health Ethics Research Group.
Prof. Lisa Schwartz
Co-investigator
McMaster University
Email: schwar@mcmaster.ca
Biography: Lisa Schwartz is the Arnold L. Johnson Chair in Health Care Ethics, Professor in the department of Health Research Methods, Evidence & Impact (formerly Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and associate member of the Department of Philosophy McMaster University. Between 2012-2017, Prof Schwartz was the Director of the PhD in Health Policy, and co-Associate Director of the Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis (CHEPA), at McMaster University. She completed her PhD in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, where she then held the position of Senior Lecturer in Philosophy of Medicine in the Department of General Practice, Faculty of Medicine.
From 2008-2017 she was the Vice-Chair of the Standing Committee on Ethics at CIHR, and a member of the non-pharmaceutical expert review panel for CADTH. Currently she is a member of the Ethics Committee at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in Canada.
Dr Schwartz’s research background is in ethics and human research, evaluation of ethics education in medicine, and advocacy in health care. She has been co-investigator on studies on privacy and access to patient data for research, bio-banking, and consent practices. Currently, Dr Schwartz is the senior Primary Investigator on a program of CIHR and R2HC funded studies examining the ethical challenges faced by humanitarian healthcare providers, on ethics and policy development in humanitarian healthcare agencies, and a related study on ethics and conflicts of role for military healthcare professionals working in humanitarian contexts.
