Peter A. Singer
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Peter A. Singer, MD, MPH, FRCPC, is Sun Life Financial Chair in Bioethics and director of the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics and professor of medicine at the University of Toronto and University Health Network. He also directs the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Bioethics and the Canadian Program on Genomics and Global Health at the University of Toronto.
He studied internal medicine at the University of Toronto, medical ethics at the University of Chicago, and clinical epidemiology at Yale University.
His research has focussed on end-of-life care, fair priority setting in healthcare organizations, and teaching bioethics. Recent research has focussed on global health, in particular harnessing genomics and nanotechnology to improve health in developing countries.
[edit] Awards
- Nellie Westerman Prize in Ethics of the American Federation for Clinical Research
- Young Educator Award of the Association of Canadian Medical Colleges
- American College of Physicians George Morris Piersol Teaching and Research Scholar
- Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association Medical Scholarship
- National Health Research and Development Program National Health Research Scholar
- CIHR Distinguished Investigator
- Senior Fellow at Massey College
- Yale University School of Public Health Award for Excellence
- University of Toronto Dales Award.
He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenges for Global Health Initiative and the Committee on Advances in Technology and the Prevention of Their Application to Next Generation Biowarfare Agents of the United States National Academy of Sciences.
