Lynette Reid

Department:

Department of Bioethics

Research topics:

Public health ethics
Egalitarianism in health and health care
Preferential access
Issues in ethics and philosophy of medicine in cancer screening
Integrative medical curriculum design

Related Information:

• CV

Education

BA (University of Winnipeg)
MA (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
PhD (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
PDF (University of Toronto; Dalhousie University)

Research interests

Dr. Reid’s work is at the intersection of public health ethics, clinical ethics in primary care, and social and political philosophy of health systems. Recent publications include an analysis of the distributional nature of population health and a discussion of the implications of Piketty and colleagues’ work on economic inequality for bioethics and health equity. Her current projects lie in two distinct areas. One involves questions in ethics and in philosophy of medicine that arise in current cancer screening controversies. The other involves normative and empirical challenges to systems of universal health coverage. She is currently involved in projects implementing anti-oppressive frameworks in medical education.

Selected publications

• Reid, L. 2020. Triage of critical care resources in COVID-19: a stronger role for justice. J Med Ethics. https://doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2020-106320
  
• Reid, L. (2020). Antimicrobial Resistance and Social Inequalities in Health: Considerations of Justice. In E. Jamrozik & M. Selgelid (Eds.), Ethics and Drug Resistance: Collective Responsibility for Global Public Health (pp. 257-278). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27874-8_16
• Reid, L. 2018. Is an indistinct picture “exactly what we need”? Objectivity, accuracy, and harm in imaging for cancer. J Eval Clin Pract, 24(5), 1055-1064. https://doi.org/10.1111/jep.12965
• Lynette Reid. 2017. Truth or Spin? Disease definition in cancer screening. The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 42(4), 385-404. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmp/jhx006 
• Lynette Reid. 2016. Answering the Empirical Challenge to Arguments for Universal Health Coverage Based in Health Equity. Public Health Ethics 9(3):231-243. http://bit.ly/1NU33m2
• Lynette Reid. 2016. Does population health have an intrinsically distributional dimension? Public Health Ethics 9(1)24-36. http://bit.ly/1iRD7fK

Selected awards and honours:

• CAME/ACÉM Certificate of Merit Award, Canadian Association for Medical Education, 2010
• Samuel G. Dunn Lectureship in Medicine and the Humanities. University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. April 18, 2009
  
• Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship, Dalhousie University, 1997-1998
  
• SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Toronto, 1995-1997
  
• Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, 1989-1994

Teaching

• Case diversification project, 2022-24. See: https://medicine.dal.ca/departments/core-units/cpd/faculty-development/important-update-for-med-i-tutors-regarding-changes-to-cases-beg.html
• Priority Communities for the Curriculum Report 2021; please contact for a copy.
• Unit Head (2012-14) and Co-Unit Head (2015), Professional Competencies Unit (Med 1 & 2), Faculty of Medicine
• Philosophy 4801/5801, Winter 2018 and Fall 2023
• Philosophy 2810: Ethics and Health Care: Social Policy, Winter 2016
   

Service & Activity

• Co-Editor, Public Health Ethics, 2022-present.
• Corresponding member, ICRP Task Force 109, Ethics in Radiological Protection for Medical Diagnosis and Treatment, 2019-present.
• CADTH, Health Technology Expert Review Panel member, 2017-2022.
• Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, 2013-present.
• Alberta Health Services Preferential Access Inquiry. 2013. “Preferential Access: A Contextual Ethics Analysis,” invited submission and expert testimony.