Discover how Ontario Genomics is “Up to the Challenge” with our 2023-2024 Annual Report.
Rapid advances in genomics and its broad range of applications present new and complex economic, environmental, ethical, legal, and social issues for individuals and society at large. For this reason, Ontario Genomics fosters responsible, ethical, and equitable development, uptake, and implementation of genomics research and innovation.
GE3LS research investigates questions at the intersection of genomics and society. It provides stakeholders with the insights needed to anticipate the impacts of scientific advances in genomics, avoid pitfalls, cultivate success, and ultimately, contribute to Canada’s leadership in the 21st-century global bioeconomy.
Ontario Genomics is committed to driving the responsible use of genomics in order to advance knowledge and ensure that genomics benefits society as a whole.
Translating genomics research and innovation into effective solutions requires strong engagement with communities as well as the people and institutions using genomic technologies. By collaborating with communities and end-users, and co-creating genomic solutions with them, we are working to ensure those solutions are applied equitably and respond to real-world needs.
Ontario Genomics supports not only scientific research but also projects that aim to better understand and address the effects of new discoveries on society. At Ontario Genomics, and across the Genome Canada family of regional genome centres, we refer to this research on genomics-related economic, environmental, ethical, legal, and social issues as “GE³LS research.”
It is important to keep genomics in the public consciousness as this dynamic science evolves. It is equally important to integrate stakeholder input into the research to identify societal needs and acceptable applications of these technologies. The more informed society is on the challenges it faces, the easier it is to tackle these challenges.
We enable evidence-based policy and decision-making using research insights and data generated through our funded projects and challenge-driven genomics initiatives. Ontario Genomics funded GE³LS researchers also provide critical expertise to public policy and decision makers through parliamentary committees and other forums.
The development and implementation of effective, proactive GE³LS research initiatives are critical to the field of genomics. Learn more about stand-alone and integrated GE³LS Research Projects which have been funded through Ontario Genomics. Learn more about GE3Ls projects funded through Ontario Genomics.
Ontario Genomics is committed to facilitating access to GE³LS Experts in Ontario through a catalogue of Ontario researchers and scholars from disciplines such as anthropology, economics, ethics, humanities, law, philosophy, policy, and sociology, who share research interests in issues stemming from, or associated with, genomics and related technologies to help bridge gaps between genomics researchers and other stakeholders. Learn more about GE3Ls Experts in Ontario.
Institution: Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
Role: Adjunct Professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada and the Department of Oncology, University of Calgary.
Areas of Focus: Research Interests: Cancer: Primary & Secondary Prevention, Point-of-Care Interventiion Research, EMRs, Supportive CareProgram Evaluation clinical effectiveness, technology assessment / drug utilization, performance measurement / program evaluation, health services delivery, knowledge transfer, primary care, workplace / rehabilitation, public and population health, cancer prevention and screening
Institution: Carleton University
Role: Professor, Graduate Supervisor, Public Policy and Program Evaluation
Areas of Focus: Comparative and global environmental politics and policy; international political economy; transnational private governance and private regulation; corporate social responsibility; climate change; natural resource governance
Institution: Ivey School of Business
Role: Assistant Professor, Operations Management
Areas of Focus: focused interest in advancing scholarly theorization and managerial understanding of the requisite operational and organizational capabilities that underpin the productive deployment of a systematic lean management approach. His personal research focuses on the design, delivery and capture of value for and from customers through the deployment of a well-designed lean management approach.
Institution: St. Michael’s Hospital
Role: Scientist, MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions
General internist and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) physician.
Areas of Focus:economic evaluation, decision analysis, and quality of life assessment for HIV-related health interventions, and studies of the access to the delivery of health services (particularly to people who use drugs, paeople living with HIV, and other marginalized populations)
Toronto and Ottawa Supervised Consumption Assessment (TOSCA) and the Marginalization and COVID-19 (MARCO) studies.
Institution:George Mason University (moved in July 2020)
Role: Assistant Professor of Economics
Areas of Focus: His research primarily focuses on applied microeconomics, on behavioral economics, and on the emerging field of “genoeconomics” (which combines insights and methods from both economics and genetics to find genetic variants associated with economic preferences and outcomes and tackle questions of interest to both fields).
Institution: MORSE Consulting Inc. (Sept 2022)
Role: Director of Pharmacoeconomics and RWE
Areas of Focus: collaborate with clients to deliver strategic advice related to pharmacoeconomic evidence, health technology assessment, development and integration of real-world evidence (RWE) and overall market access.
Institution: University of Guelph
Role: Associate Professor & Chair, Dept. of FARE
Areas of Focus: Novel food and agricultural technologies: Consumer perception, information search and decision making, Economics of traceability throughout the food and agricultural supply chain, Challenges and best practices in communication about novel technologies, in particular agricultural biotechnology.
Institution: Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, University of Toronto
Role: Associate Professor
Areas of Focus:Focuses on evaluating the adoption of new genomic technologies in clinical practice
Institution: Vineland Research and Innovation Centre
Role: Director, Consumer, Sensory and Market Insights
Areas of Focus: drivers that impact consumer preference and choice for horticultural products
Institution: University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics
Role: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine
Areas of Focus:Environment and health ethics
Cloning/de-extinction/artificial intelligence, consumption of wild animals & diseases, COVID-19 pandemic ethics, Environmental/climate change ethics, Ethical implications of vaccine mandates, Ethics of organ donation law, Ethics of quarantine, Forest loss, Gene editing/gene drive, Genomic/genetic ethics, Medical assistance in dying, Physician assisted in dying/end of life, Reproductive ethics, Zoonosis
Institution: University of Guelph
Role: Associate Professor and Assistant Vice-President (Graduate Studies)
Areas of Focus: research program broadly focussed on environmental governance, with special emphasis these days on: mining and Indigenous communities in Canada; environmental stewardship in conventional agricultural systems; and Canada’s emergent sustainable seafood governance network. Past research has focussed on corporate social/environmental responsibility, agricultural trade liberalization, community-based resource management, agricultural biotechnology adoption, and climate change adaptation in agriculture
Institution: Queen’s University
Role: Radiation Oncologist and professor of Oncology, and in the Department of Public Health Sciences
Areas of Focus: Patterns of Care studies, Health services research in oncology, Knowledge translation, Quality of life and other patient-reported outcomes, Interventions to promote appropriate system performance, including workforce planning and peer review, Patient decision support
Institution: University of Ottawa
Role: Full Professor with the Centre for Environmental Law and Global Sustainability at the Faculty of Law
Areas of Focus: intersection of environment law, economics and social justice, with a focus on climate change. Her publications address a variety of topics, including climate change, carbon pricing, environmental justice, constitutional law, environmental human rights, the green economy and sustainable food and agriculture
Institution: University of Ottawa
Role: Professor, Department of Biology
Canada Research Chair in Toxicology and Environmental Health
Areas of Focus: toxicology of chemical contaminants found in different ecosystems, the impact of diet on the health effects of contaminants, and the relationships between ecosystem health and human health. an ecosystem approach to study the dynamic interrelations between the environment and health with a focus on the holistic concept of health found in the traditional indigenous knowledge.
Toxicology, Environmental health, Aboriginal peoples, Nutrition, Mercury
Institution: Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto
Role: Professor of Health Economics
Areas of Focus: health economics; health services outcomes and evaluation; and health policy and planning, health services finance, organization, and delivery; health policy; home and community care; clinical evaluation and pharmacoeconomics
His studies have included the measurement of regional variations in health service utilization, evaluations of the cost-effective provision of health care services, and assessments of health service finance, organization, and delivery
Institution: University of Guelph
Role: Professor & Associate Dean (External Relations)
Areas of Focus: research focuses on the economics of consumer behaviour and demand analysis at the individual, household and market level, innovation in the agri-food and biotechnology sectors, and economic history
Institution: University of Guelph
Role: Associate Professor
Areas of Focus: Great Lakes fish ecology, natural resource management, Indigenous-Western science knowledge systems
Institution: University of Toronto
Role: Professor Emeritus
Areas of Focus: Global Public Health, Public Health Ethics, Biotechnology, Life Sciences, Health Biotechnology Innovation Systems of Emerging, Economies and Developing Countries, Chronic Non-communicable Diseases, Global Mental Health, “Health in Transition” as a Lens for Global Health, Global Health Diplomacy, Human Genome Variation and Global Health, Innovation and Reform in Medical and, Health Sciences Education, Introducing High Throughput, Low Cost, High Efficiency Health Care Models to sub-Saharan Africa
Institution: University of Ottawa
Role: Full Professor and Director of Open AIR
Areas of Focus:Technology innovation, intellectual property, and trade and development law law, business, political science, international relations and public policy
Institution: Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto
Role: Staff Oncologist, Division of Haematology/Oncology
U of T Positions: Assistant Professor, Institute of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation
Areas of Focus: Child health and social policy analysis. Economic evaluation in child health. Child health technology assessment. Pharmaceutical policy for children. Global childhood cancer outcomes. Social determinants of child health.
analysis and strengthening of paediatric health systems and policies
childhood cancer and non-communicable diseases, pharmaceutical policy and drug access, and the ethics of resource allocation in health systems
1. value assessment and health system implementation of precision cancer therapeutics for children;
2. essential medicine availability, price, and access for children with cancer in LMICs; and
3. forecasting of essential cancer medicine demand and cost for health system planning.
Institution: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
Role: Counsel
Areas of Focus: administrative law and practice, Aboriginal law and policy, environmental law and policy, and all aspects of food and agricultural law, including labelling, recalls, biotechnology regulation, plant protection and animal health.
Institution: University of Waterloo
Role: Associate Professor
Areas of Focus: Environmental conservation and natural resource use: Social psychology of private landowner conservation behaviours, Socio-economic dynamics as drivers of land use change, Adoption of environmental best management practices, Natural and cultural heritage landscape planning
(Near-)urban ecosystem services planning and management: Environmental justice and equity, Institutional analysis of green-blue infrastructure approaches, Climate change mitigation and adaptation, Urban ecology
Forest and grassland ecosystems: Climate change effects on ecosystem dynamics, Land use impacts on ecosystem dynamics, Urban forest restoration ecology, Methods and applications of alternative knowledges (epistemology)
Institution: bpa Ltd.
Role: Principal
Areas of Focus:scientific and environmental aspects of the sustainable development principles, environmental science, risk assessment, and sustainable development, scientifically appropriate regulation of metals
Institution: Canadian Partnership Against Cancer
Role: CEO
Areas of Focus: was Vice-President, Cancer Control, where he led programs and initiatives that deliver on the priorities and actions of the 2019-2029 Canadians Strategy for Cancer Control.
medical oncologist specializing in gastrointestinal oncology at Sunnybrook’s Odette Cancer Centre, a Senior Scientist at ICES and a Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto
Health services research in cancer
Institution: Brock University
Role: Professor, Department of Educational Studies
Areas of Focus: research broadly focuses on science and environmental sustainability education, teacher education and development, curricular innovation, instruction and assessment in science education.
Institution: University of Ottawa
Role: Full Professor, University Research Chair in Health Law & Policy.
Director of the University of Ottawa Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics
Areas of Focus: comparative health care law & policy, public/private financing of health care systems, health care reform, constitutional law, administrative law, and accountability and governance issues
Institution: University of Guelph
Role: Professor
Areas of Focus: agricultural and natural resource economist
Methodology; Property Rights and Natural Resource Stewardship;
Institution: University of Guelph
Role: Professor; Director, Arrell Food Institute; Fellow of the Trudeau Foundation; Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographic Society
Areas of Focus: links between food security, landuse, and global environmental/economic change
Institution: University of Toronto
Role: Professor
Areas of Focus: the ecology and evolution of cooperation among species, or mutualism
Institution: Institute for Clinical and Evaluative Sciences
Western University
Role: Professor, Senior Core Scientist
Site Director and Program lead
Areas of Focus: health administrative data and health services research
Institution: University of Toronto , University of Waterloo
Role: Professor Emeritus,
President and Vice-Chancellor
Areas of Focus: research has focused on health services evaluation and the promotion of the use of research evidence in health decision-making.
Institution: Wilfrid Laurier University
Role: Professor and Program Co-ordinator, User Experience Design
Areas of Focus: research has focused on the study of how humans seek, use, share, manipulate, store, retrieve, and organize digital multimedia
Institution: McMaster University
Role: Associate Professor
Areas of Focus: health economist, how to assess health and provide healthcare among older people
Institution: University of Toronto
Role: Associate Professor
Areas of Focus: economic aspects of the pharmaceutical industry, including drug development; pharmaceuticals use, insurance and reimbursement; and interactions between innovative (brand) and generic drug firms
Institution: University Health Network
Role: Bioethicist
Areas of Focus: transplant bioethicist
Institution: University of Ottawa
Role: Associate Professor and Vice Dean English Program
Areas of Focus: Legal regulation of various aspects of assisted human reproduction
Institution: University of Toronto
Role: Professor
Areas of Focus: knowledge translation, evaluation of access to, and quality of, cancer care
Institution: Hospital for Sick Children
Role: Staff Oncologist and Clinician Investigator, Division of Haematology/Oncology
Areas of Focus: Health services research, medical decision science
Research aims to identify and improve the outcomes of vulnerable subpopulations of children with cancer.
(1) using health administrative data to answer important clinical and policy-relevant questions.
(2) collaboration with international partners to improve the outcomes for children with cancer in low- and middle-income countries (LMICS).
Institution: Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto; Child Health Evaluative Sciences a SickKids
Role:Scientist, Child Health Evaluative Sciences
Areas of Focus: Evaluating genomic screening and diagnostic technologies in maternal-child health; Understanding delivery, financing, governance, and ethics arrangements implicated in the use of genomic technologies; Applied health services and policy research methods, mixed methods.
Institution: Trent University
Role: Associate Professor, School of the Environment
Associate Director of the Trent School of the Environment, Program Coordinator for BESS and ERS
Areas of Focus: policies and actions for preventing climate change, particularly how we produce and consume low-carbon energy.
Institution: University of Toronto
Role: Professor
Areas of Focus: health economics and health services research related to cancer, mental health, and other health issues affecting poor and vulnerable populations
Institution: Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program (HITAP)
Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto
St. Michael’s Hospital
Role: Program Leader (Director)
Associate Professor
Affiliated Scientist / Health Economist
Areas of Focus: Economic Evaluation Methodology, Health Technology Assessment, Person-level Data Analysis, Administrative Databases, Quantitative Research, Survey Research, Medical Decision Making, Mental Health, Cancer, Public Health, Disaster Research
Institution: Queen’s University
Role: Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences
Health Services and Policy Research Institute Senior Scientist, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES)
Areas of Focus: economic evaluations of health care programs, uncertainty in cost-effectiveness analysis, decision-making, resource allocation, public health, and health technologies
Institution: Canadian Institute for Genomics and Society
Role: Founder & Research Director
Areas of Focus: science and health communication, bioethics, innovation in public health, science and technology policy, civic engagement, media and culture, and interdisciplinary methodologies
Institution: Lakehead University
Role: Bioethicist
Areas of Focus: ethics of patient-caregiver relationship, end of life care, ethics of Aboriginal health care, ethics of human research and ethics of pandemic planning and response. Currently, his primary interests are in the ethics of public health and public policy.
Institution: McMaster University
Role: Program Lead, M.Eng. Engineering and Public Policy
Professor
W Booth School of Engineering Practice and Technology
Areas of Focus: environmental policy
Institution: University of Toronto
Role: Assistant Professor
Areas of Focus: research interests are focused on value-added applications for wood and biomass materials as well as by-product streams from related processing industries
Institution: University Health Network
Role: Assistant Professor University of Toronto, Department of Surgery
Areas of Focus: clinical effectiveness, health services research, health care quality, health economics and decision modeling, urologic cancer
Institution: CAMH
Role: Director of Health Outcomes and Performance Evaluation
Areas of Focus: psychiatrist, health economics, health service utilization, understanding the determinants of and barriers to treatment of mental illness
Institution: Institute for Clinical and Evaluative Sciences
Public Health Ontario
Toronto Western Family Health Team
Role: Epidemiologist, Public Health and Family Physician
Areas of Focus: infectious diseases epidemiology and health services research
Institution: York University
Role: Associate Professor
Areas of Focus: research addresses challenges in the efficient organization, management and analysis of media-rich datasets, while developing more natural and intuitive modes for associated human-computer and computer-mediated interaction. Specializing in audio-visual signal processing and bio-inspired models for learning & recognition, his work finds application in multimedia search and summarization, knowledge-assisted visualization, immersive computing and virtual/mixed realities.
Institution: Lakehead University
Role: Professor
Areas of Focus: Parks management, wildlife management, trail management, last chance tourism, indigenous tourism, battlefield tourism
Institution: University of Toronto
Role: Professor, Scholl Chair in Health Law and Policy
Areas of Focus:research focuses on the interaction between law, governance tools, and ethical norms and values in the context of health care, biomedical research, pharmaceutical and other health product development, and knowledge production
Institution: University of Guelph
Role: Associate Professor; Director, FARE Laboratory for Experimental and Applied Economics
Areas of Focus: innovation adoption and consumer behavior in an agri-food-environment context
Institution: Athabasca University
Role: Associate Professor
Areas of Focus: Genomics and nursing practice, leading for clinical innovation and advancements in nursing, impact of COVID-19 on professional practice and wellbeing, inter and intra-professional collaboration, research ethics
Institution: University of Guelph
Role: Professor
Department of Economics and Finance
Areas of Focus: the economics of natural resources and the environment with a focus on issues related to benefits and cost assessment, taxation, regulation and enforcement.
Institution: Queen’s University
Role: Director
Areas of Focus: the interface between renewable energy policy and technologies, with particular emphasis on wood energy and biofuels. broad spectrum that covers environmental policy, international approaches to renewable energy development, and commercialization of new products and processes.
Institution: University of Toronto
Role: Professor
Areas of Focus: conservation biology, tropical ecology, landscape ecology, and ecological impacts of climate change. Research interests include mammalian ecology and biogeography; the diversity and abundance of tropical organisms; impacts of human induced landscape changes on biological diversity and ecological processes; the impacts of global warming on natural ecosystems; relationships between landscape structure and biological diversity, and mammalian adaptations to arboreality and seasonality
Institution: OCAD University
Role: Assistant Professor
Areas of Focus:exploring innovation systems, innovation policy, and the application of design principles and evidence-based solutions to solving the challenges faced therein. developing research around Smart Specialization and innovation strategies as applied to non-metropolitan (i.e. rural and remote) communities in Canada; biofuel and bioenergy solutions for zero-waste industrial cycles; issues in the commercialization of regenerative medicine and genomics; and attitudes towards longevity and disposability in consumer tech culture.
Institution: Carleton University
The Royal’s Institute of Mental Health Research & Carleton University
Role: Director, Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Areas of Focus: research addressees the social determinants of health with a particular focus on marginalized populations
Institution: University of Guelph
Role: CCAP Representative to the Psychology Graduate Program Committee
Areas of Focus: psychological studies, communication and family influences in the contexts of acute and chronic pain and medical procedure-related fear
Institution: Council of Canadian Academies
Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
Role: President and CEO
Adjunct Professor
Areas of Focus:bioethics aspects of genomics, international health, big data, and research with human participants
Institution: University of Toronto
Director – Centre for Sustainable Health Systems
Director – CASCADES
Role: Professor
Areas of Focus: research focuses on health technology and innovation policy, and sustainability (environmental, social, economic) in health systems. She has a particular interested in how health technologies are developed and their adoption is governed
Institution: CADTH (As of May 2019)
Role: Vice-President, Scientific Evidence, Methodologies, and Resources
Areas of Focus: promoting active learning, assuring rigour and quality, linking science to strategy, and sharing evidence through CADTH’s journal and other sources
leads CADTH’s shared science groups, including Science and Methods, Health Economics, Research Information Services, and the Publishing team.
Institution: The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids)
Role: Staff Neonatologist
Areas of Focus: Neonatal health
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