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• Author: Bailey, Tracey M.

Health law and policy is an ever-expanding area of practice and research. While society may quickly associate health law with medical malpractice and personal injury law, in reality work in the area is a complex interdisciplinary pursuit which exists at the crossroads of numerous disciplines including science, economics, ethics, and the law.

A recent colloquium of graduate students and mentors held at the University of Toronto, part of the Health Law, Ethics and Policy Training Program supported by the CIHR and based at four universities with a focus on health law (Dalhousie University, Universite de Sherbrooke, University of Alberta and University of Toronto), evidenced the diversity of the field and the burgeoning...