Peter A. Singer

Peter A. Singer, MD, MPH, FRCPC, is Senior Scientist and Co-Director of the Program on Life Sciences, Ethics and Policy at the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, University Health Network; Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto; and a Distinguished Investigator of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

Between 1995 and 2006 he was Sun Life Financial Chair in Bioethics and director of the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics and Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Bioethics at the University of Toronto.

He studied internal medicine at the University of Toronto, medical ethics at the University of Chicago, public health at Yale University, and management at Harvard Business School.

He has published over 225 articles in journals including Science, Nature Genetics, Nature Biotechnology, PLoS Medicine, International Affairs, BMJ, Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and others. He has held $50 million in research grants, including three large grants from Genome Canada. He has trained over 50 graduate students and fellows, many of whom have leadership positions in bioethics around the world. He has written over 30 op-ed articles for national newspapers.

He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenges for Global Health Initiative and the Committee on Advances in Technology and the Prevention of Their Application to Next Generation Biowarfare Agents of the United States National Academy of Sciences.

His research has focussed on end-of-life care, fair priority setting in healthcare organizations, and teaching bioethics. Recent research has focussed on global health, in particular harnessing genomics and nanotechnology to improve health in developing countries.

Awards

 * Nellie Westerman Prize in Ethics of the American Federation for Clinical Research
 * Young Educator Award of the Association of Canadian Medical Colleges
 * American College of Physicians George Morris Piersol Teaching and Research Scholar
 * Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association Medical Scholarship
 * National Health Research and Development Program National Health Research Scholar
 * CIHR Distinguished Investigator
 * Senior Fellow at Massey College
 * Yale University School of Public Health Award for Excellence
 * University of Toronto Department of Medicine Research Award
 * University of Toronto Dales Award
 * Finalist for the Michael Smith Award in Health Research
 * Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences
 * Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.