Category Health Research
A Call to Action: Improve Indigenous Health
Alain Beaudet shares an excerpt of his speech, given at last week’s annual Forum of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, which outlines research priorities for indigenous health.
Ethical aspects of research with chimera embryos
Vardit Ravitsky highlights a few ethical issues with human-nonhuman chimera research.
Human-Nonhuman Chimera Research in Canada
Françoise Baylis explains Canada’s regulatory framework for human-nonhuman chimera research and suggests that the proposed changes to the NIH guidelines to permit the funding of such research may have implications for Canadian research.
The Disorientation of Illness
Ami Harbin considers how positioning health as the personal responsibility of individuals may contribute to the disorientation of illness.
Ensuring Safe immunization
Karina Top describes the ways that data about vaccines are collected and used in Canada to ensure that immunization programs are safe.
Impact Ethics 