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Professor Jocelyn Downie
Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy and Director of the Health Law Institute,
Faculties of Law and Medicine
Dalhousie University,
Halifax, Canada
Email: jocelyn.downie@dal.ca
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Background and contributions to the field
Dr. Downie's most significant contribution to this research field is through her publications. In addition, she has made numerous presentations at conferences on topics related to research involving human participants across Canada and in the United States , Japan , and Australia . She has received research grants from national funding councils for her work in the field including the Canada Research Chairs program, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. She has also received contracts for research in this field from Health Canada . Downie's work to date has focused on research involving vulnerable populations (in particular, women and children) and it now focuses on governance of research involving humans (with particular emphasis on conflicts of interest and commercialization of research).
Jocelyn Downie was awarded a Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy specifically to study the governance of research involving humans. She was awarded the "Kermesse Scholar Award of the IWK Auxiliary" by the IWK Centre of Excellence Scholar Program. In addition, she has served on a variety of Research Ethics Boards at local and national levels and has been called upon by REBs across Canada to help with retreats and policy development. She has served on two national advisory committees on the governance of research involving humans (one for Health Canada and one for the Canadian Association of University Teachers). She served on the Committee of Inquiry into the research ethics case involving Dr. Nancy Olivieri, Apotex, the Hospital for Sick Children, and the University of Toronto . The report of that Inquiry, published as J. Thompson, P. Baird, and J. Downie, The Olivieri Report: The Complete Text of the Report of the Independent Inquiry Commissioned by the Canadian Association of University Teachers (Toronto: James Lorimer & Co., 2001) has generated significant media and academic interest, including a mini-symposium in the Journal of Medical Ethics, advanced-published at <http://jme.bmjjournals.com/misc/advanced.shtml >.
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