Nicholas King
Academic Background
Nicholas King holds a Ph.D. in the history of science and a Masters degree in medical anthropology from Harvard University. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of the Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University, and an Associate Member in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McGill University; and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Bioethics at Case Western Reserve University.
Dr. King is the co-director of Montreal Health Equity Research Consortium (MHERC) and director of the MEDEC Lab (Measurement, Ethics, and Decision-making Collaborative).
Research Interests:
• Public health ethics and policy. Previous and current research includes work on the ethics of biosecurity, disaster response, and public health preparedness; ethical issues in responses to emerging diseases and the development of antimicrobial resistant pathogens; and health inequalities.
• Health information, inequalities, and measurement. One project with colleagues in the Department of Epidemiology, this new work investigates the role of ethical judgments in the statistical measurement and assessment of causality in research on health inequalities. Another project with colleagues at the Harvard School of Public Health investigates the role of mathematical modeling and information aggregation in the development of infectious disease policies.
For more information see Dr. King's website.
Contact Information:
nicholas.king [at] mcgill.ca (Email)
Tel.: (514) 398-7406
Fax: (514) 398-8349
Daniel Weinstock
Academic Background
Daniel Weinstock studied Political Science and Political Philosophy at McGill University, where he received a BA and an MA, between 1980 and 1986. He received a DPhil in Political Philosophy from Oxford University, where he studied between 1986 and 1991. From 1988 to 1989, he was a visiting doctoral student at Harvard University. He completed postdoctoral work in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University, before joining the faculty of the Department of Philosophy of the Université de Montréal in 1993. From 2002 to 2011, he was the Founding Director of the Centre de recherche en éthique de l’Université de Montréal. In 2012, he became a Professor in the Faculty of Law and in the Department of Philosophy of McGill University. In 2013, he was appointed as Director of McGill’s Institute for Health and Social Policy. His term as Director began on August 1, 2013. He has held Visiting Appointments at Université Lyon III, at the Australian National University, at Ritsumeikan University (Kyoto, Japan), and at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, in Barcelona, Spain.
Research Interests
Dr. Weinstock's research interests have spanned widely across a wide range of topics in contemporary moral and political philosophy – from the just management of ethnocultural and religious diversity in modern liberal democracies, to state policy with respect to children, families, and educational institutions. His main research interests at present have to do with the problem of health equity, and with issues of justice and inclusion as they arise in the organization of modern cities. The guiding thread of his research has been to connect philosophical and ethical argument with institutional reasoning. It is marked by the firm conviction that moral and political philosophers have paid insufficient attention to the institutional parameters that both enable and constrain the realization of normative ideals. His attention to institutional specificity has led to his being called upon quite regularly to serve on public policy commissions in areas as diverse as public health (he was the Founding Director of Quebec’s Public Health Ethics Committee), education, end-of-life medical care, and "reasonable accommodation." Dr. Weinstock is the director of Institute for Health and Social Policy at McGill University.
His work and teaching have been recognized by a number of major prizes. In 1997 he was awarded a teaching prize by the Faculté des arts et des sciences de l’Université de Montréal for his innovations in developing ethics and public policy courses for the health sciences, and in 1998 he received a teaching prize awarded by the Université de Montréal to its most distinguished teachers at the University-wide level.
He has held both a Tier I and a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Ethics and Political Philosophy at the Université de Montréal.
In 1998, he was awarded a fellowship both to the Rockefeller Center for Human Values at Princeton University, and to the Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. He spent the 1998-1999 academic year as a Rockefeller Fellow at Princeton. In 2004, he was made a Prize Fellow of the Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau Foundation, and in 2008, he received the Prix André-Laurendeau from the Association canadienne-française pour l’avancement des sciences.
Contact Information
daniel.weinstock2 [at] mcgill.ca (Email)
Phone: 514-398-2436
Office: 1130 Pine Avenue West, Room 200, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1A3
Tel.: 514-398-1236
Fax: 514-398-8983