Blog posts

Senior Fellow, ISSP, uOttawa
Senior Fellow, University of Alberta’s China Institute
Distinguished Fellow with the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada

The coronavirus is bringing to international attention the Chinese government’s disregard for transparency and the individual human rights of its citizens.

Interim Research Director
ISSP, uOttawa

Director and Lead of the ISSP Energy Research Cluster
Chair, Positive Energy, uOttawa

Originally published by Policy Options on May 1, 2020

It’s no secret that debates over Canada’s energy and climate future are divisive and contentious — if not outright polarized. There is no common vision for the country’s energy future in an age of climate change. Could COVID-19 change that? 

Professor, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University
Director of the Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub

Faculty Affiliate, ISSP
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and CN – Paul M. Tellier Chair on Business and Public Policy, uOttawa

Originally published by The Hill on April 20, 2020

Personal data has become essential both to mitigate COVID-19 and to rescue our slowing economy. For example, Google is using its large trove of personal data to track the effectiveness of social distancing. Firms are also using personal data to supply us with goods and services from toilet paper to in-home meetings. Meanwhile, policymakers are using personal data to provide individuals with stimulus checks and unemployment insurance. 

Core Member and Inclusive Innovation Research Cluster Co-Lead, ISSP
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, uOttawa

Faculty Affiliate, ISSP
Full Professor, Disease Modelling, Faculty of Science, uOttawa

On April the 3^rd, CBC news ran a story with the headline, “COVID-19 could kill 3,000 to 15,000 people in Ontario, provincial modelling shows.” What does this vastly wide range of future scenarios say about disease modelling? And what does the fact that this wide range made news say about the place of modelling in policy and culture?

Advisory Council Member, ISSP, uOttawa
Guest Scholar, Centre de recherche en droit public, Université de Montréal
Former Deputy Minister of Health for Canada from 1993 to 1998

I would like to offer some reflections agreed upon on my experience as a former Deputy Minister of Health for Canada from 1993 to 1998. During this period, I experienced the Krever survey on contaminated blood, the redesign of the Canadian tobacco law, the aftermath of the Baird report on new reproductive technologies, the impact on Canada of a plague outbreak in India and Ebola in Nigeria.