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Medical Humanities @ ICLS
Dr. Kathleen (Katie) Hammond is an Assistant Professor in the Lincoln Alexander School of Law at Toronto Metropolitan University where she directs the Health Law and Innovation Research Group. Dr. Hammond’s research spans across health law and policy, health equity, constitutional law, privacy law, and gender and families, and she specializes in reproduction, assisted reproductive technologies and genetic testing technologies. Her research is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the Canadian Foundation of Legal Research, among others. She is currently the primary investigator on a study examining elective egg freezing and consent processes and is co-investigator on a study looking at the experiences of Canadian egg donors. She has published extensively, including peer-reviewed articles in McGill Journal of Law and Health, Canadian Journal of Law and Society, Journal of Public Health Policy, Anthropology & Medicine, Canadian Journal of Family Law, Journal of Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis, and Healthcare Policy. She has been involved with policy development in the area of reproduction for organizations such as the World Health Organization, where she was involved with organizing, and participated in the consultation for the WHO’s first ever glossary and guidelines on infertility.
Prior to joining the Lincoln Alexander School of Law, she was a postdoctoral fellow with the Research Group on Health and Law at McGill University’s Faculty of Law and a visiting fellow with the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law and Policy at Harvard University’s Faculty of Law. She holds a JD and a BCL from McGill University Law School. She completed an MPhil in Multi-Disciplinary Gender Studies and a PhD in Legal Sociology at the University of Cambridge where she was a Gates Cambridge Scholar and a Commonwealth Scholar.
