Katherine Pearson
PennState Dickinson Law
U.S.A.
Professor Pearson worked on a publication that drawing on her almost 30 years of experience at Dickinson Law to analyze the impact of national and global aging on the practice of law (including elder law) as well as higher education. She undertook a deep dive into how Canada approaches issues of access to justice, health supports, and care for older people, especially as Canada is a leader in terms of best practices in a complex world of tightening resources. This was Professor Pearson’s second residence as a Fulbright Scholar. In 2009-2010, she was Fulbright Scholar at Queen’s University Belfast, where she co-authored a guide for older adults, families, counsel and the courts, entitled The Law of Financial Abuse and Exploitation (Bisel, 2011). This experience inspired Professor Pearson’s ongoing collaborations with researchers in Northern Ireland, including her advisory work for the Commissioner of Older People in Northern Ireland.
Rosanna Hertz
Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies
Wellesley College
U.S.A.
Rosanna Hertz is known for her research on the intersection of families, work and gender. For the past 25 years she has focused on the emergence of new family forms and how they expand our understanding of kinship. She is especially interested in how the internet is revolutionizing the choices people make as they enter into third-party reproduction arrangements (e.g. sperm and egg donor use) and also how the internet has become a site of new possibilities for connection between genetic relatives. In 2021 Rosanna and her colleague, Joshua Gamson, began to work on a new project “School-based and Internet-based Sexual Learning Experiences of Heterosexual-identified and LGBQ+ Youth.” Using qualitative methods, the project aims to understand how youth with a range of sexual and gender identities have experienced school-based sex education, how they have explored sexual content online, and how they see the two in relation to each other. She continues her focus on how social inequality at home and in the workplace shape the experiences of women and men.
Jo Ellen Patterson
School of Leadership and Education Sciences
University of San Diego
U.S.A.
Jo Ellen Patterson's research primarily explores family wellbeing using an interdisciplinary perspective blending the social and biological sciences. She has published numerous books on family health and family therapy, including Essential Skills in Family Therapy (Guilford, 2009), which has been adopted by many training programs across the United States, and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
Thaddeus Mason Pope
Mitchell Hamline School of Law
U.S.A.
Thaddeus Mason Pope is a foremost expert on medical law and clinical ethics. He maintains a special focus on patient rights, healthcare decision making, and end-of-life options. Pope is a law professor at Mitchell Hamline School of Law in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA. While he serves in a range of consulting capacities, Pope has been particularly influential through his extensive, high-impact scholarship. Ranked among the Top 20 most-cited health law scholars in the United States, Professor Pope has over 225 publications in leading medical journals, bioethics journals, and law reviews. He coauthors the definitive treatise The Right to Die: The Law of End-of-Life Decisionmaking, and he runs the Medical Futility Blog (with over four million page-views).
Maureen McTeer
Legal Author
Maureen McTeer is a lawyer who has held academic appointments at both Canadian and American universities. As an expert on health and medical law and policy, she has lectured at universities across North America and has presented at conferences on the relevant legal and policy issues raised by science and technology. She is the author of four books, including “Tough Choices: Living and Dying in the 21st Century”. She was a member of the Global Commission on Pollution, Health and Development, whose report appeared in the Lancet in 2017. She has served in many other volunteer capacities, e.g. as a founding member and Chair of the Advisory Board of the Shirley E. Greenberg Women’s Health Centre in Ottawa, a lay member of the Accreditation Committee of Canadian Medical Schools, Co-Chair of the National Experts Commission of the Canadian Nurses Association, etc. She has been awarded four honorary degrees from universities in Canada and the U.K.
Jennifer Herbst
School of Law
Quinnipiac University
U.S.A.
Jennifer Herbst was CHLPE's Fulbright Visiting Scholar from the U.S. in the winter term 2020. Her research looks at the intersection between health, ethics, law, and money. At CHLPE in particular, she focussed on the ethical and legal framework for informal caregivers making healthcare decisions for patients lacking decision-making capacity.
Ted Marmor
Yale School of Management
U.S.A.
Professor Ted Marmor was Fulbright Visiting Scholar from the U.S. in 2018. His scholarship primarily concerns welfare state politics and policy in North America and Western Europe. He is the author or co-author of 11 books and over 100 articles in a wide range of journals. Ted began his public career as a special assistant to Wilbur Cohen, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under President Johnson in the late 1960s. He has been Associate Dean of Minnesota's School of Public Affairs, faculty at the University of Chicago, Head of Yale's Center for Health Services, a member of President Carter's Commission on the National Agenda for the 1980s, and a senior policy advisor to Walter Mondale in the Presidential campaign of 1984. He has testified before Congress about medical care reform, social security, and welfare issues, as well as been a consultant to government and non-profit agencies.
Rengui Liu
Philosophy Institute
Jishou University
China
Rengui Liu is a Professor of Philosophy at Jishou University. His main research interest is metaethics. He was a visiting scholar at CHLPE in 2018–19, gaining exposure to North American culture and English.
Wende Yu
Philosophy Institute
Jishou University
China
Wende Yu is a Professor of Philosophy and Deputy Director of the Center for Socialism with Chinese Characteristics at Jishou University. His primary research area is applied ethics, including public health ethics, food safety ethics, and political ethics. His first book emerged from his doctoral dissertation, entitled An Ethical Inquiry of Public Health. His second book was entitled The People's Livelihood at the Dinner Table: Food Safety Ethical Responsibility. He was a visiting scholar at CHLPE in 2018 in order to broaden his academic vision, conduct comparative research, and gain exposure to North American culture and English.
Sam Halabi
O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law
Georgetown University
U.S.A.
Sam Halabi is an O’Neill Institute Scholar as well as an Associate Professor at the University of Missouri School of Law. He was CHLPE's first Fulbright Visiting Scholar from the U.S. During the 2009-10 H1N1 influenza pandemic, the outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, and the spread of the mosquito-borne Zika virus, a series of complex legal and regulatory issues arose in developing, testing, and distributing vaccines and other medical countermeasures. These complicated issues involved pharmaceutical companies, logistics firms, the World Health Organization, governments, foundations, and research institutions. Sam's project examined the comparative approaches to these issues by U.S. and Canadian federal authorities. The purpose of the project was to identify legal and regulatory factors affecting global health emergency response that may be resolved at the planning stage; and to facilitate support to decision makers.
Vandna Bhatia
Department of Political Science
Carleton University
Professor Bhatia holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy from McMaster University and a B.Sc. in Nursing from the University of Toronto. Her research is in the fields of comparative public policy and Canadian politics. She has a particular interest in the role of ideas and discourse in the politics of health care reform, and how political discourses shape the construction of policy problems and the strategies and solutions proposed to address them. Vandna spent a sabbatical at CHLPE in 2016–17.
Marc-André Gagnon
School of Public Policy and Administration
Carleton University
Dr. Gagnon’s empirical research focuses on the political economy of the pharmaceutical sector: business models, innovation policies, corporate influence over medical practices, health and drug insurance regimes. From a more theoretical standpoint, his research analyzes capital accumulation and corporate competition in terms of how firms capitalize not only their productive capacity but also their capacities and their business network powers to influence laws, public policies, culture and socio-institutional settings in order to accrue monopolistic differential gains. Marc-André spent a sabbatical at CHLPE on 2016–17.