Addressing ethical issues to promote equitable healthcare.
Precision medicine is emerging as a source of hope for patients with advanced diseases such as cancer by prolonging disease progression and survival. Rapid advancements in artificial intelligence and machine learning further promise to transform innovation, discovery, and patient care. Ensuring equitable access, safeguarding the vulnerable from harm, and avoiding bias and discrimination are among the significant ethical issues raised by revolutionary advances in healthcare.
Based at the University of Toronto and Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, the JustCan ethics lab uses empirical and normative bioethics, critical and feminist methodologies, qualitative and mixed-methods, and interest-holder engagement to address these and other urgent ethical issues at the frontier of clinical care through evidence-informed research, policy, and practice.
Our areas of expertise.
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Novel Therapeutics
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Clinical Trials
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Medical Assistance in Dying
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Artificial Intelligence in Precision Medicine
“While accessibility is 1 of 5 cornerstones of Canada’s public health care system, providing equitable access to health interventions remains a challenge.”
— COUNCIL OF CANADIAN ACADEMIES, 2020