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Biographical Note

Marika Warren is an assistant professor with the Department of Bioethics at Dalhousie University and a health care ethicist for the Nova Scotia Health Ethics Network (NSHEN). Her role with NSHEN involves building ethics capacity in Nova Scotia by providing ethics support such as education, consultation, and assistance with policy development. Marika also participates in ethics research and collaborations as a member of the Ethics Collaborations Team.

Marika completed a doctorate in philosophy at the University of Toronto. Her dissertation focused on equality rights in the case of severe cognitive disability. She gained additional experience in bioethics as an undergraduate research assistant at the University of Alberta’s John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre for a project entitled “Relational Ethics: Foundation for Health Care” and through work for the Provincial Health Ethics Network (PHEN) in Alberta between 1999 and 2008.

Publications & C.V.

Publications: Please refer to on-line CV

Downloadable CV (Adobe Acrobat file)

Interests

• Social determinants of health
• Disability rights
• Organizational and policy ethics
• Feminist bioethics
• The intersection of clinical and academic bioethics
• Genetic and reproductive technologies