Programs and Activities - 2005
The Olivieri case and its lessons for Australasia
Seminar by Dr Jocelyn Downie
by Larissa Chick
Dr Jocelyn Downie, Faculties of Law and Medicine, Dalhousie University, Canada, presented a special seminar at the University of Wollongong together with Associate Professor Susan Dodds from UOW's Faculty of Arts, focusing on key issues in contemporary health research.
The seminar, ‘The Olivieri Case: Lessons for Australasia', was held on the 10 May 2005 and was jointly hosted by UOW's Legal Intersections Research Centre in he Faculty of Law and UOW's Centre for Canadian-Australian Studies in the Faculty of Arts.
The case of Dr Nancy Olivieri, the Hospital for Sick Children, the University of Toronto, and Apotex Inc. is critically important in understanding key issues in contemporary health research and the safety of research participants said conference speakers.
Speakers noted that the case illustrated the huge financial and health states in such research and that the case unfolded at a crucial time in the history of health research regulation. The case challenges the ways in which research is governed at the local and national levels.
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