Bryn Williams-Jones
Bryn Williams-Jones is a Canadian bioethicist, professor and director of the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine at the School of Public Health, Université de Montréal. He is co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Canadian Journal of Bioethics/Revue canadienne de bioéthique, the first open access bilingual bioethics journal in Canada, and co-director of the Ethics branch of the International Observatory on the Social Impact of AI and Digital Technology. Williams-Jones is a member of the Centre for Research in Public Health, the Centre for Ethics Research, the Institute for Applied Ethics of the Université Laval, and fellow of The Hastings Center.
Education
An interdisciplinary scholar, Williams-Jones completed a bachelor's degree in Philosophy and then a Masters in Religious Studies at McGill University, before pursuing his PhD in Interdisciplinary studies at the W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics at the University of British Columbia, where he focused on issues of genetics and ethics. He then did a post-doctoral fellowship at the Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge, and was a junior research fellow at Homerton College. Before taking up his current position as professor at the Université de Montréal, he worked for a year as a research ethicist at the Cardiff Institute of Society, Health and Ethics, Cardiff University, Wales.Research
Williams-Jones is interested in the socio-ethical and policy implications of health innovations in diverse contexts. His work examines the conflicts that arise in academic research and professional practice with a view to developing practical ethical tools to manage these conflicts when they cannot be avoided. He has published more than 200 articles, commentaries, book chapters and case studies, on topics related to public health policy, regulation and science and technology innovation on subjects including genetics, pharmaceutical development, direct-to-consumer advertising, nanotechnology, and pharmacogenomics. He has also published on the responsible conduct of research, with a focus on the management of conflicts of interest.In his bilingual, open access ebook, he provides practical suggestions so that all can compete fairly in the academic game.