Join the Centre for Vaccine Preventable Diseases for a seminar with Dr. Ross Upshur
About this Event
Special note: This seminar will be hosted on Zoom. Please register to receive the link and password two hours before the seminar. Please note that space is limited.
Speaker: Dr. Ross Upshur - Professor & Division Head, Clinical Public Health, DLSPH
Topic: COVID-19 Vaccine Trials: Ethical issues associated with early efficacy data
Bio:
Ross Upshur received BA (Hons.) and MA degrees in philosophy before receiving his MD from McMaster University in 1986. After seven years of rural primary care practice, he completed his MSc in epidemiology and fellowship training in Community Medicine and Public Health at the University of Toronto. He was a staff physician at the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre from 1998-2013. He is currently the Scientific Director, Bridgepoint Collaboratory for Research and Innovation, Bridgepoint Active Healthcare.
Dr. Upshur is the Canada Research Chair in Primary Care Research, and was the first family physician to be awarded a Canada Research Chair. At the University of Toronto he is a Professor at the Department of Family and Community Medicine and Dalla Lana School of Public Health. He is an Adjunct Scientist at the Institute of Clinical Evaluative Sciences, and Associate Member of the Institute of Environment and Health at McMaster University.
His research focuses on the intersection of primary care and public health, particularly with respect to the interrelationship between ethics and evidence. Current interests include: managing complex chronic disease in aging adults, clinical measurement, the concept of evidence in health care, philosophy of medicine, public health ethics, global health ethics, and empirical approaches in bioethics. He has held numerous grants from the CIHR. He has over 300 publications including more than 180 peer reviewed publications spanning these domains.
Dr. Upshur been active on Advisory Boards for the International Joint Commission, Doctors Without Borders, and Scidev.net, several medical journals, and consulted with the World Health Organization (most recently on Ebola) and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenges in Global Health
Questions? Email us at cvpd.dlsph@utoronto.ca
About the Centre for Vaccine Preventable Diseases, DLSPH:
With leadership housed at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health, we are developing an interdisciplinary group of academic researchers, educators and public health advocates. Our vision is to catalyze cutting-edge research and education that maximizes the health benefits of immunization for everyone.
We aim to contribute locally and globally to healthy communities through excellence in interdisciplinary vaccine-preventable disease and immunization research and education.
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