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Celebrating Rurality: Embracing Rural Health Ethics

September 10, 2024 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

“Celebrating Rurality: Embracing Rural Health Ethics” is presented by the ASBH Rural Bioethics Affinity Group with guest speakers Professor Christy Simpson, PhD and Fiona McDonald, PhD

This talk will provide an overview of the motivations, approach, and key insights developed by the presenters with respect to their work in rural health ethics. The values of place and community, as well as a need to re-value relationships, will be highlighted.

About the speakers: Professor Christy Simpson is Faculty Lead and an Associate Professor in the Department of Bioethics at Dalhousie University, Canada. She is the coordinator for the Ethics Collaborations with the Nova Scotia Health Authority, the IWK Health Centre, and the Nova Scotia Health Ethics Network. She is also an Adjunct Professor in the Australian Centre for Health Law Research at Queensland University of Technology. Her primary responsibilities include ethics education and capacity-building, policy development and review, and support for clinical and organisational ethics consultations.

Professor Fiona McDonald is an Associate Professor at the QUT Law School at Queensland University of Technology, Australia and a member of the Australian Centre for Health Law Research. She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Department of Bioethics, Dalhousie University, Canada, a Senior Research Fellow at the New Zealand Centre for Public Law at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She is co-author, with Professor Simpson of Rethinking Rural Health Ethics (Springer 2017).

The talk is free and all are welcome! You can register to receive the Zoom link by clicking here.

Details

Date:
September 10, 2024
Time:
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Website:
https://cwru.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYscemsrjstGdzMvZ4ODHXUz9owhqGH5T5a#/registration

Organizer

The ASBH Rural Bioethics Affinity Group
Phone
847.375.4745
View Organizer Website

Venue

Online