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Seminar Series

About the Centre for Bioethics Seminar Series

Our Seminar Series is an invitation for our Centre for Bioethics community to convene on a regular basis with the aims of:

Showcasing Centre members' research, initiatives, and contributions to policy and practice.
Connecting the Centre for Bioethics community with key voices, expertise, and leaders in bioethics beyond our institution.
Fostering interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration, bringing theory into conversation with practice and creating opportunities for new research partnerships.
Supporting the exchange and dissemination of bioethics knowledge, providing a platform for Centre-based research and encouraging critical discussion and shared learning.
Facilitating discussion of the wide range of ethical questions arising in health, science, policy, and society.

Upcoming Seminars

Title	Presenter(s)	Topic / Area of Bioethics	Date / Time	Location
Understanding Social Disadvantage for Health Inequality Research and Policy: Listening to the General Public using LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®	Professor Yukiko Asada, Director, McMaster Centre for Health Equity; Professor, Deparment of Health, Aging & Society, Faculty of Social Sciences, McMaster University	Health equity in policy and reseach	September 10, 2026, 3:30-5:00pm	Western Interdisciplinary Research Building (WIRB), Room 1110 Register here to attend via Zoom if unable to attend in person.
Policymakers' Engagement with Ethicists to Improve Public Health in the United States	Adam Seth Levine, SNF Agora Institute Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management, John Hopkins University	Health policy, public health	October 22, 2026, 3:30-5:00pm	TBA Register here to attend via Zoom if unable to attend in person.
Developing an Ethical Evaluation Framework for Coercive Antimicrobial Stewardship Policies	Dr. Tess Johnson, Senior Researcher, Ethox Centre and the Pandemic Sciences Institute, University of Oxford	Antimicrobial Resistance, coercion	November 4, 2026, 3:30-5:00pm	TBA Register here to attend via Zoom if unable to attend in person.
Resource allocation ethics in dentistry: Path dependency, evidence, and professional and social norms	Dr. Carlos Quinonez, Vice Dean and Director of Dentistry, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University	Resource allocation ethics, ethics in dentistry	November 25, 2026, 3:30-5:00pm	TBA Register here to attend via Zoom if unable to attend in person.

*Note: those unable to attend seminars in person may attend via Zoom.

Past Seminars

Title	Presenter(s)	Topic / Area of Bioethics	Date
Author Talk: Tourette's Syndrome, Stigma, and Society's Jests (Palgrave Macmillan)	Professor Rachel Forrester-Jones (Co-Author), Professor and Director, School of Health Studies, Western University	Disability ethics, structural stigma	March 31, 2026
Misinformation, Disinformation, and How to Theorize People with Whom We Disagree	Professor Maya J. Goldenberg, Department of Philosophy, University of Guelph	Philosophy of science and medicine, misinformation	February 26, 2026
Book Launch: Consenting Children: Autonomy, Responsibility, Well-Being (Liverpool University Press)	Professor Anthony Skelton (Co-Editor), Professor, Department of Philosophy, Western University Meghan Winsby (Co-Author), PhD Candidate, Department of Philosophy, Western University Professor Andrew Franklin-Hall (Co-Author), Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto Daniel Wyzynski (Discussant), HEC-C, MHSc, Clinical and Organizational Ethicist & Clinician Scientist, London Health Sciences Centre	Pediatric ethics, consent and autonomy of children, philosophical bioethics	January 22, 2026
"Bioethics in Three Acts"; Altered Inheritance: 'What Kind of World do We (You) Want to Live in?'	Professor Françoise Baylis, C.M., O.N.S., PhD, FRSC, FISC, Distinguished Research Professor Emerita at Dalhousie University	History of bioethics, ethics of human genome editing	December 4, 2025