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Dr. Janice E. Graham, Director of TRRU

janice.graham@dal.ca
(902) 494-1897

Janice Graham () is a medical anthropologist, Professor of Pediatrics (Infectious Diseases), and former Canada Research Chair in Bioethics. Graham聽is interested in planetary health, building policies and practices for public health governance that can represent and include all people everywhere, the growing commercialization and private profits from publicly funded innovation, and opening evidence to scrutiny to improve public trust.

Focusing on safety, efficacy, and trust in the construction and legitimization of evidence, Graham鈥檚 research unpacks regulations, standards and activities in the development of emerging therapeutics and vaccines in Canada, Europe, and Africa. 聽Graham has presented evidence to the Science Policy Directorate, Health Canada, Office of Legislative and Regulatory Modernization, the Parliament of Canada, World Health Organization, and United Nations on open data, regulatory risk of industry capture of research, and emergency response. She is the author of over 160 peer reviewed articles and book chapters and co-editor of (2021, UBC Press), (2021, U Toronto Press) and Contesting Aging and Loss (U Toronto Press 2010), as well as multiple reports on vaccines and public trust.

Professor Graham has been a visiting senior fellow at the BIOS Centre for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society, London School of Economics and Political Science (2006) and chaired Health Canada鈥檚 Expert Advisory Panel on the Special Access Program (2008). She was a consultant on the (2010-12), a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for the WHO Guinea Ebola vaccine trials that produced the first effective Ebola vaccine, Visiting Professor at the WHO Meningitis Vaccine Project (2010) and at Maladies Infectieuses et Vecteurs: Ecologie, G茅n茅tique, Evolution et Contr么le (), Centre de Recherche IRD, CNRS U Montpellier, France (2013-14) and at the University of Sydney (2021-22).聽

Graham graduated in Anthropology from the University of Waterloo (Hons BA 1980), University of Victoria (MA 1982), and the Universit茅 de Montr茅al (PhD 1997). She held a postdoctoral fellowship in geriatric medicine and neuroepidemiology at 鲍鱼tv University (1996-1998). She was appointed Associate Professor and the inaugural Burwell Research Chair in Medical Anthropology (1998-2002) at the University of British Columbia. Graham is a past President of the Canadian Anthropology Society/Soci茅t茅 canadienne d'anthropologie (), received the Weaver-Tremblay Medal for Distinguished Service in Applied Anthropology, Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) in 2016, was inducted as a Fellow in the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences in 2017, and to the Royal Society of Canada in 2018 and 鲍鱼tv University Research Professor (2018-2023).