Biography:Maxwell Smith

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Short description: Canadian bioethicist
Maxwell Smith
OccupationBioethicist
Academic background
EducationB.A., Philosophy, University of Toronto, Canada
M.Sc., Bioethics, Union Graduate College and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA
Ph.D., Public Health Sciences and Bioethics, University of Toronto, Canada
Alma materUniversity of Toronto
Academic work
InstitutionsFaculty of Health Sciences, Western University, Canada
Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada
Websitehttps://www.uwo.ca/fhs/shs/about/faculty/smith_m.html

Maxwell J. Smith is a Canadian bioethicist and assistant professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Western University[1][2] in London, Ontario, Canada . He is the Co-Director of Western's Health Ethics, Law, and Policy (HELP) Lab[3] and holds appointments in Western's Department of Philosophy[4] and Rotman Institute of Philosophy.[5] He also serves as a consulting clinical bioethicist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.[6]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Smith was appointed to Ontario's COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Task Force.[7][8] He served as co-chair of Ontario's COVID-19 Bioethics Table[9][10] and is a member of the World Health Organization's Working Group on Ethics and COVID-19,[11] ACT Accelerator Ethics and Governance Working Group,[12] and Public Health Agency of Canada's Public Health Ethics Consultative Group.[13]

Education

Smith holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of Toronto, a master's degree in bioethics from Union Graduate College and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and a Ph.D. in public health sciences and bioethics from the University of Toronto, which he completed under the supervision of Ross Upshur.[14] From 2016 to 2018, Smith held a Banting Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Institute for Health and Social Policy at McGill University.[15][16]

Research

Smith's research is in the area of public health ethics, with a specific focus on ethical issues that emerge in pandemics and infectious disease outbreaks.[17][18][19][20][21][22] In particular, he is a notable proponent of vaccination mandates, arguing that they can be ethically justified in certain circumstances.[23] Smith led the drafting of the World Health Organization's policy brief on the ethics of mandatory vaccination for COVID-19.[24] His work also often explores the ethical requirements of health equity and social justice in public health policy, practice, and research.[25][26][27]

Selected Articles

  • Smith MJ. What Constitutes Success in the Rollout of COVID-19 Vaccines? The Lancet, 2021; 398(10295): 115-116.
  • Smith MJ. Why We Should Not 'Just Use Age' for COVID-19 Vaccine Prioritisation. Journal of Medical Ethics, 2021; Doi: 10.1136/medethics-2021-107443.
  • Smith MJ, Forman L, Parker M, Perehudoff K, Rawson B, Sekalala S. Should COVID-19 Vaccines Authorized for Emergency Use be Considered "Essential" Medicines? Health and Human Rights, 2021; 23(1): 1-6.
  • Smith MJ, Upshur REG, Emanuel EJ. Publication Ethics During Public Health Emergencies Such as the COVID-19 Pandemic. American Journal of Public Health, 2020; 110(7): 947–948.
  • Smith MJ, Upshur REG. Learning Lessons from COVID-19 Requires Recognizing Moral Failures. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 2020; 17(4): 563-566.
  • Smith MJ, Ujewe S, Katz R, Upshur REG. Emergency Use Authorisation for COVID-19 Vaccines: Lessons from Ebola. The Lancet, 2020; 396(10264): 1707-1709.
  • Emanuel EJ, Persad G, Upshur R, Thomé B, Parker M, Glickman A, Zhang C, Boyle C, Smith MJ, Phillips JP. Fair Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources in the Time of COVID-19. New England Journal of Medicine, 2020; 382(21): 2049-2055.
  • Smith MJ, Thompson A, Upshur REG. Public Health as Social Justice? A Qualitative Study of Public Health Policy-Makers' Perspectives. Social Justice Research, 2019; 32(3): 384-402.
  • Smith MJ, Thompson A, Upshur REG. Is 'Health Equity' Bad for Our Health? A Qualitative Empirical Ethics Study of Public Health Policy-Makers' Perspectives. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 2018; 109(5): 633-642.
  • Smith MJ. Health Equity in Public Health: Clarifying our Commitment. Public Health Ethics, 2015; 8(2): 173-184.

References

  1. ↑ "School of Health Studies Faculty - Maxwell J. Smith". https://www.uwo.ca/fhs/shs/about/faculty/smith_m.html. 
  2. ↑ "CBC Author - Maxwell Smith". https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/author/maxwell-smith-1.5547926. 
  3. ↑ "Maxwell Smith". https://quicksilver.primer.ai/maxwell_smith/. 
  4. ↑ "Western University Department of Philosophy - Additional Graduate Faculty". https://www.uwo.ca/philosophy/people/grad_faculty.html. 
  5. ↑ "Rotman Institute of Philosophy Faculty". https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/rotman-members/faculty/. 
  6. ↑ "Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Health Ethics Alliance". https://sunnybrook.ca/content/?page=52229. 
  7. ↑ "Ontario Appoints Members of the Ministers' COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Task Force". https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/59475/ontario-appoints-members-of-the-ministers-covid-19-vaccine-distribution-task-force. 
  8. ↑ "Ontario taps Western University chancellor, bioethics professor for vaccine task force". https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/london-ontario-covid19-vaccine-1.5828408. 
  9. ↑ "Ontario COVID-19 Health System Response – Bioethics Table Charter & Terms of Reference". https://jcb.utoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Ontario-COVID-19-Health-System-Response-Bioethics-Table-Charter-and-Terms-of-Reference.pdf. 
  10. ↑ "What's worrying Ontario's front-line doctors most amid third wave of COVID-19 pandemic". https://www.thestar.com/local-caledon/news/2021/04/30/what-s-worrying-ontario-s-front-line-doctors-most-amid-third-wave-of-covid-19-pandemic.html?itm_source=parsely-api/. 
  11. ↑ "World Health Organization Working Group on Ethics and COVID-19". https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-source/ethics/who-ethics-and-covid-19-expert-group-2020sept15.pdf?sfvrsn=a48842f6_6. 
  12. ↑ "World Health Organization ACT Accelerator Ethics & Governance Working Group - Members of the Working Group". https://www.who.int/groups/accelerator-ethics-governance-working-group/about. 
  13. ↑ "Public Health Ethics Consultative Group (PHECG) Membership List - 2020-2023 Term". https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/corporate/mandate/about-agency/external-advisory-bodies/list/public-health-ethics-consultative-group/membership.html. 
  14. ↑ "Rotman Institute of Philosophy Faculty - Maxwell J. Smith". https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/portfolio-items/smith-maxwell-j/?portfolioCats=420. 
  15. ↑ "Congratulations Maxwell J. Smith on receiving a 2016 Banting Fellowship". https://www.mcgill.ca/familymed/2016-banting-fellowship. 
  16. ↑ "Banting Postdoctoral Researchers 2015–2016". https://banting.fellowships-bourses.gc.ca/en/2015-2016-eng.html. 
  17. ↑ "Interview: COVID-19 and Public Health Policy". https://www.catharsismagazine.com/post/interview-covid-19-and-public-health-policy. 
  18. ↑ "Ethics of pandemic gives Londoner, World Health Organization lots of food for thought". https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/ethics-of-pandemic-gives-londoner-world-health-organization-lots-of-food-for-thought/. 
  19. ↑ "Le rôle discret – mais crucial – de la bioéthique dans les décisions sanitaires". https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1781183/bioethique-covid-pandemie-maxwell-smith-universite-western. 
  20. ↑ "What goes into making tough COVID-19 calls, from vaccine distribution to lockdowns". https://ottawa.citynews.ca/local-news/what-goes-into-making-tough-covid-19-calls-from-vaccine-distribution-to-lockdowns-3675160. 
  21. ↑ "Should COVID shots be mandatory? We ask a London bioethicist". https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/should-covid-shots-be-mandatory-we-ask-a-london-bioethicist. 
  22. ↑ "Vaccine Distribution Task Force bioethicist takes questions on rollout". https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-45-ontario-today/clip/15828583-vaccine-distribution-task-force-bioethicist-takes-questions-rollout. 
  23. ↑ "Considering the role of vaccine mandates at a COVID-19 crossroad". https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-57-the-sunday-magazine/clip/15859363-considering-role-vaccine-mandates-covid-19-crossroad?share=true. 
  24. ↑ "COVID-19 and mandatory vaccination: ethical considerations and caveats: policy brief". https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/340841. 
  25. ↑ "Canada should donate AstraZeneca vaccines, or we'll 'have blood on our hands:' doctor". https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-may-18-2021-1.6030754/canada-should-donate-astrazeneca-vaccines-or-we-ll-have-blood-on-our-hands-doctor-1.6031565. 
  26. ↑ "Social vulnerability matters in vaccine rollout, says international research team". https://globalnews.ca/news/7662672/social-vulnerability-vaccine-rollout/. 
  27. ↑ "Ontario Releases Ethical Framework for COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution". https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/59850/ontario-releases-ethical-framework-for-covid-19-vaccine-distribution. 




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