Summit convened by:

Center for Biosecurity of UPMC

Canadian Policy Research Network

Center for Science Technology and Security Policy at AAAS

National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responsed to Terror

Peter Singer

Professional Biography
Dr. Peter A. Singer is Sun Life Financial Chair in Bioethics and Director of the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics and Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto and University Health Network. He also directs the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Bioethics and the Canadian Program on Genomics and Global Health at the University of Toronto.

Dr. Singer is the recipient of awards that include the Nellie Westerman Prize in Ethics of the American Federation for Clinical Research, the Young Educator Award of the Association of Canadian Medical Colleges, the American College of Physicians George Morris Piersol Teaching and Research Scholar, the Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association Medical Scholarship, NHRDP National Health Research Scholar, CIHR Investigator, and CIHR Distinguished Investigator, Senior Fellow at Massey College, the Award for Excellence from Yale University School of Public Health, and the University of Toronto Dales Award.

He has published more than 200 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 almost $50 million in research grants, including three large grants from Genome Canada. He has trained more than 50 graduate students and fellows, many of whom hold leadership positions in bioethics around the world.

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 U.S. National Academy of Sciences. He is a Director of BIOTECanada, and board chair of the Branksome Hall School for Girls.

His contributions have included improvements in quality end of life care, fair priority setting in healthcare organizations, and teaching bioethics. His current research focus is global health, in particular harnessing genomics and nanotechnology to improve health in developing countries.

Dr. Singer studied internal medicine at the University of Toronto, medical ethics at the University of Chicago, and clinical epidemiology at Yale University.