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Ross Upshur

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Ross Upshur (born 1958) is a Canadian physician and researcher. He is a professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health of the University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada, and heads its public health division.[1][third-party source needed]

History

Education

Upshur received a BA in philosophy from the University of Winnipeg in 1982, and an MA, also in philosophy, from Queen's University in 1983; he completed an MD at McMaster University in 1986, and an MSc in epidemiology at the University of Toronto in 1997.[1]

COVID-19

On February 11-12, 2020, Upshur participated in a conference titled “2019 novel Coronavirus Global research and innovation forum: towards a research roadmap” co-hosted by the World Health Organization R&D Blueprint and Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Disease Preparedness (GLOPID-R). He delivered a presentation on ethical considerations for research during the emerging SARS-CoV-2 outbreak, which would go on to be declared as a pandemic one month later.[2]

Upshur is a member of the Ontario COVID-19 Bioethics Table, working closely alongside the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table.[3]

Publications

His book publications include:

  • (as co-author with R.P. Thompson) Philosophy of Medicine: An Introduction. London: Routledge, 2017
  • (as co-editor with L. Jaakkimainen, S.E. Schultz and S. Maaten) Primary Care in Ontario. Toronto: Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, 2006
  • (as co-editor with A. Pinto) Introduction to Global Health Ethics. London: Routledge, 2012.

References

  1. ^ a b Ross E. G. Upshur. Toronto: University of Toronto: Dalla Lana Faculty of Public Health. Accessed March 2020.
  2. ^ "2019 novel Coronavirus Global research and innovation forum: towards a research roadmap AGENDA" (PDF). Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Disease Preparedness (GLOPID-R). 2020-02-08. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2023-02-08. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  3. ^ "Ontario COVID-19 Health System Response Bioethics Table Terms of Reference" (PDF). University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-08-24. Retrieved 2023-03-12.