Data Ethics: CAnD3 Connect2Learn series

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This training session will examine ethical dilemmas raised by the use of data in formulating, implementing, and evaluating decisions and policies. It particularly focuses on balancing the risks and benefits of using data for policy and addressing the unintended consequences of data-driven policymaking.

Itinerary 

To be provided closer to the date of the session. 

Location

This is an online webinar hosted on Zoom. To receive details to enter the event, please register.  

Instructor

Nicholas King

Associate Professor, Department of Social Studies of Medicine & Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University

Director, Policy and Data Science Program at the Max Bell School of Public Policy, McGill University 

Dr. Nicholas King is an Associate Professor in the Department of the Social Studies of Medicine and an Associate Member in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McGill University. He also directs the Policy and Data Science Program at McGill's Max Bell School of Public Policy.

Dr. King's research spans two main areas: public health ethics and health information, inequalities, and measurement. His 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; the role of ethical judgments in the statistical measurement and assessment of causality in research on health inequalities; and the role of mathematical modeling and information aggregation in the development of infectious disease policies.

What are Connect2Learn's?

Our Connect2Learn series is designed to facilitate interdisciplinary and intersectoral learning and exchange among all CAnD3 members, including researchers from population research fields in universities in Canada, the U.S., the U.K., and Germany, Canadian partners from the public, private and not-for-profit sectors, and CAnD3 Fellows.

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