MacBain Chair in Health Law and Policy, Associate Professor of Law, Associate Director of the Health Law Institute
Joanna N. Erdman is an Associate Professor and the MacBain Chair in Health Law and Policy at the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. She is also the Associate Director of the school’s Health Law Institute. Joanna has acted as an intervener before various constitutional courts and international bodies. Joanna chairs the Global Health Advisory Committee of the Public Health Program, and serves on the advisory board of the Women’s Rights Program, Open Society Foundations. She is a past chair of World Health Organization’s Department of Reproductive Health and Research Gender and Rights Advisory Panel. She holds a JD from the University of Toronto and an LLM from Harvard Law School, and completed a fellowship at Yale Law School.
Joanna’s research focuses on sexual and reproductive health law in a transnational context.
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About Joanna N. Erdman
Joanna N. Erdman is an Associate Professor and the MacBain Chair in Health Law and Policy at the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. She is also the Associate Director of the school’s Health Law Institute. Joanna has acted as an intervener before various constitutional courts and international bodies. Joanna chairs the Global Health Advisory Committee of the Public Health Program, and serves on the advisory board of the Women’s Rights Program, Open Society Foundations. She is a past chair of World Health Organization’s Department of Reproductive Health and Research Gender and Rights Advisory Panel. She holds a JD from the University of Toronto and an LLM from Harvard Law School, and completed a fellowship at Yale Law School.
Joanna’s research focuses on sexual and reproductive health law in a transnational context.
| Present | MacBain Chair in Health Law and Policy, Associate Professor of Law, Associate Director of the Health Law Institute, Dalhousie University Schulich School of Law ‐ Health Law Institute | |
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Disciplines
Research Interests
Grants
| 2017 - 2020 | Insight Grant. Harm reduction, public policy, and moral controversy: principle and practice |
| Social Science & Humanities Research Council of Canada | |
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| 2017 - 2020 | Project Grant. Harm reduction: Public health reasoning in law and public policy in relation to morally controversial behaviours |
| Canadian Institutes of Health Research | |
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| 2016 - 2016 | Canadian Health Law and Policy, 5th ed |
| Foundation for Legal Research | |
| Role: co-investigator |
Professional Service and Affiliations
| 2018 - Present | Legal and Human Rights Seat, Steering Committee, Inroads, International Network for the Reduction of Abortion Discrimination and Stigma | 2017 - Present | Member, Research Protocol Review Panel, Reproductive Health and Research Department, World Health Organizati | 2016 - Present | Chair, Global Health Advisory Committee, Public Health Program, Open Society Foundations | 2015 - Present | Member, Law Program Committee, Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (National) | 2014 - Present | Member, Advisory Board, Women's Rights Program, Open Society Foundations | 2005 - Present | Member, Law Society of Ontario |
Honors and Awards
- 2013 & 2015 Hanna & Harold Barnett Award in Teaching First Year Law, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University
Courses
- International Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Practicum
- Health Law Placement
- Health Law
- Fundamentals of Public Law
| BA, University of Toronto | ||
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| LLM, Harvard University | ||
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| JD, University of Toronto | ||
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Links
Contact Information
Schulich School of Law
Weldon Law Building
6061 University Avenue
PO Box 15000
Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2
Email: joanna.erdman@dal.ca
