Jim Lavery

Jim Lavery is a research scientist in the Centre for Research on Inner City Health (CRICH) and Centre for Global Health Research (CGHR), Keenan Research Centre of the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences and Joint Centre for Bioethics at the University of Toronto. Jim received M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Institute of Medical Sciences and Centre for Bioethics at the University of Toronto and subsequently received a post-doctoral fellowship in applied ethics and health policy from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and Canadian Health Services Research Foundation, during which he studied priority-setting in home care in Canada at the Queen's University Health Policy Research Unit.

Jim then spent 3 years at the Fogarty International Center, and Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Center Department of Clinical Bioethics, both at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. While at the NIH he worked on ethical and regulatory issues in international research. He is a member of the Canadian Interagency Advisory Panel on Research Ethics and a member of the Advisory Board of the Institute of Infection and Immunity, Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

Jim is the co-principal investigator of the ESC Program for the Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative. He currently leads the International M.H.Sc. in Bioethics program at the Joint Centre for Bioethics at the University of Toronto. He is also leading a public engagement project at CRICH entitled: The Health Equity Dialogues, which has developed a film-based method of facilitating dialogue about socially-sensitive aspects of health disparities among individuals from different socio-economic circumstances and social roles. The Health Equity Dialogues aim to generate insights about the origins of health disparities and reveal opportunities for effective intervention to reduce disparities. Jim has recently edited his first book, Ethical Issues in International Biomedical Research: A Casebook, with colleagues at the NIH and Yale University, which was published in 2007 by Oxford University Press.