Professor Jennifer Gibson

Jennifer Gibson is the Sun Life Financial Chair in Bioethics and the Director of the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics (JCB), an Associate Professor in the Division of Clinical Public Health and the Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, and director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Bioethics at the University of Toronto. Jennifer holds a PhD in Philosophy (bioethics and political theory) with a prior academic background in the biological sciences.

Jennifer is a health policy ethics scholar whose research, teaching and policy work has focused on ethical issues in contemporary health institutions and systems and the role and interaction of values in health policy-making at different levels. Jennifer has advised governments and policymakers on diverse policy issues such as medical assistance in dying, public health emergencies (including the COVID-19 pandemic), health technology assessment, drug funding and supply, and resource allocation.

Jennifer founded the JCB's Ethics and AI for Good Health Program in 2018 and has been a member of the WHO Expert Group on Ethics and Governance of AI for Health since 2020. Jennifer's research and policy interests are increasingly turning toward the ethics in and of wicked problems, including problems involving convergent existential risk (e.g., polycrises), and their implications for health and a sustainable future for all.