Present | Professor of Law; Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Fellow; University Research Professor, Faculties of Law and Medicine; Adjunct Professor, Australian Centre for Health Law Research - QUT, Dalhousie University Schulich School of Law ‐ Health Law Institute | |
|
||
Board Member, Dalhousie University Schulich School of Law ‐ Dalhousie Law Journal Editorial Board | ||
|
Disciplines
Research Interests
Professional Service and Affiliations
2014 - Present | Member, Board of Directors, Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport | 2013 - Present | Chair, Board of Directors, Surdna Foundation | 2007 - Present | Member, Board of Directors, Surdna Foundation | 2000 - Present | Member, Nova Scotia Bar | 2017 - 2018 | Member, Canada Council of Academics Expert Panel on Medical Assistance in Dying | 2015 - 2015 | Member, Provincial Territorial Expert Advisory Group on Physician-Assisted Dying | 2009 - 2011 | Member, End of Life Experts Panel, Royal Society of Canada |
Honors and Awards
- Order of Canada (2018)
- President's Research Excellence Award - Research Impact (2018)
- The Canadian Academy of Health Sciences Scientific Lecture Award (2016)
- Trudeau Fellow (2015)
- CIHR Barer-Flood Prize for Health Services and Policy Research
- Fellow, Royal Society of Canada
- Fellow, Canadian Academy of Health Sciences
- Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy (2003–13)
- Canadian Association of Law Teachers Award (2008)
- IWK Health Centre Research Centre of Excellence Scholar Award (2003–08)
- Abbyann D. Lynch Medal in Bioethics, Royal Society of Canada (2005)
- Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation Award of Excellence in Medical Research (2003)
BA, Queen's University | ||
|
||
MLitt, Cambridge | ||
|
||
MA, Queen's University | ||
|
||
LLB, University of Toronto | ||
|
||
LLM, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor | ||
|
||
SJD, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor | ||
|
Contact Information
Schulich School of Law
Weldon Law Building
6061 University Avenue
PO Box 15000
Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2
E-mail: jocelyn.downie@dal.ca