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BEAUCHESNE, Line »


Line BEAUCHESNE

Full professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Criminology

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Office: 613-562-5800 (1791)
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Politiques en matière de drogues et prévention. Lois et drogues. Femmes policières.

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COX, Chelsea »


part-time professor
PhD student
Faculty of Law, Common Law Section
Common Law

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I research in alternative drug regulatory models and evolving drug policy frameworks. My main area is cannabis decriminalization, legalization and policy development. I also research in harm reduction and public health policy.

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NICKERSON, Jason »


Adjunct Professor
Faculty of Law, Common Law Section

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Dr. Jason Nickerson, RRT, PhD is the Humanitarian Representative to Canada for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), based in Ottawa. Jason is appointed as a Clinical Scientist at the Bruyère Research Institute in Ottawa and as an Adjunct Professor of Common Law at the University of Ottawa’s Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics. He leads MSF’s humanitarian diplomacy in Canada and provides advice on humanitarian operations, medical advocacy and policy, and access to medicines to MSF’s operations in more than 70 countries affected by crises. Jason has over 10 years’ clinical experience as a respiratory therapist working in adult critical care and anesthesia and has worked extensively in global public health response in Canada and internationally during armed conflicts, disease epidemics, and sudden onset disasters. Jason is a graduate of Dalhousie University’s Bachelor of Health Sciences in Respiratory Therapy program, specializing in anesthesia. Following this, he completed a master’s degree at the University of British Columbia studying the education of health professionals who provide community-based HIV care, and a PhD in population health at the University of Ottawa where he focused on the methodologies for conducting assessments of severely disrupted health systems during acute and protracted emergencies. His research has been published in high-impact medical journals including The Lancet, the Canadian Medical Association Journal, PLOS Medicine, and Health Policy and Planning, among others. He has appeared as a witness before the Canadian Parliament’s Standing Committees on Health, Finance, and International Trade and published opinion pieces in The Star, iPolitics, and The Conversation, and has been widely quoted in international news outlets on a variety of global health and health policy issues including COVID-19, access to pain medicines for safe anesthesia and palliative care, access to affordable medicines, science policy, and humanitarian assistance in natural disasters, armed conflicts, refugee crises, and disease epidemics such as Ebola.

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OSCAPELLA, Eugene »


Part-time professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Criminology

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Office: 613-238-5909
Cell: 613-282-1864
Home: 613-238-5909
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policy and law about illegal drugs, drugs and crime, drugs and terrorism, privacy

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English and French , some French interviews as well

RUPARELIA, Rakhi »


Assistant professor
Faculty of Law
Common Law

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Office: 613-562-5800 ext. 3324
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I specialize in issues of race and racism, both within and outside of legal systems. I also teach and research in the areas of torts and criminal law, particularly in the context of women and racialized communities.

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