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Many of the controversial issues that emerged during the pandemic were characterized by ethical dilemmas. The role of values in healthcare provision became even more apparent. Now that the ethical foundations of health care practice have become a topic for public debate, how can a stronger understanding of how we balance ethical values and principles help us to improve health systems? 听

Why do we not have a national process for critical care triage? Can we depend on community solidarity during a crisis?听 How do we allocate limited resources and communicate various trade-offs in health care provision both during a crisis and for everyday operations?听 How do we secure the public鈥檚 support for these trade-offs?听 How do we acknowledge and respond to the moral distress that occurs during difficult times? 听

This panel will explore how we can use ethics to generate momentum for discussion about what matters in health care and how to achieve these important goals (i.e., with due attention to both substantive & process considerations). 听

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About the Speakers

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Bashir Jiwani

Bashir Jiwani is Lead Ethicist and听Executive Director, Ethics and Diversity Services, at the Fraser Health听Authority in BC. He heads a team that provides decision- and capacity-building听support听in patient care and at the system-level when dealing with complex, ethically听challenging situations in contexts of diversity.

Bashir currently serves as President of听the听Canadian听Bioethics Society, as a member of the听pan-Canadian听Advisory Panel on a听Framework for a Prescription Drug List and听on the Core Team for the Aga Khan University Thinking Group on Ethics, Stem Cell Science, and Regenerative Medicine.听Bashir received his PhD in Public Health听Sciences from the University of Alberta.

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Christy Simpson

Christy Simpson is an Associate Professor and previous Head of the Department of Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, 马会论坛.

She is also the Department鈥檚 Coordinator of the Ethics Collaborations Team which provides ethics support for Nova Scotia Health, IWK Health, and the Nova Scotia Health Ethics Network. Her primary responsibilities in this role include ethics education and capacity-building, policy development and review, and support for clinical and organizational ethics consultations. Christy completed her doctorate in philosophy, specializing in bioethics, in 2001.听

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Maxwell Smith

Maxwell Smith is a Bioethicist and Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Western University. Professor Smith also co-directs Western鈥檚 Health Ethics, Law, and Policy (HELP) Lab, is the Associate Director of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy, and has appointments in the Department of Philosophy, Schulich Interfaculty Program in Public Health, and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. He is a Consulting Bioethicist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and serves or has served in numerous ethics advisory roles, including with the Ontario government, Public Health Agency of Canada, and World Health Organization. His research is primarily in the area of public health ethics, with a focus on infectious disease ethics and the ethical requirements of health equity and social justice for public health policy, practice, and research.

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Marika Warren

Marika Warren is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioethics at 马会论坛 and the Network Ethicist for the Nova Scotia Health Ethics Network.听

Trained in philosophy, Marika has worked to build ethics capacity and confidence throughout Nova Scotia鈥檚 health care system.听 Marika has supported the health care system in its COVID response and in addressing ethical concerns related to resource allocation.听 Current research focuses on public engagement around health policy, developing a national approach to triage, the role of ethicists in supporting policy makers, and exploring assumptions about the 鈥渞ight reasons鈥� for health care decisions.