/spgh/taxonomy/term/555/all en /spgh/channels/news/how-covid-19-made-canada-comfortable-marginalizing-37-million-people-montreal-gazette-january-14-336546 <p>Phoebe Friesen, Assistant Professor in the Biomedical Ethics Unit, is among the experts quoted by the <em>Montreal Gazette</em>.</p> <p style="margin-left:40px">"After the announcement of Quebec’s tax on the unvaccinated, ƻ����Ժ biomedical ethicist Phoebe Friesen told Reuters that it would make just as much sense to start levying a tax on obese people. “If you want to be consistent and logical, you should charge all sorts of people for their hospitalization if it’s based on behaviour that they’re ‘responsible’ for,” she said."</p> Mon, 17 Jan 2022 23:06:32 +0000 stephanie.laroche-pierre@mcgill.ca 1156 at /spgh /spgh/channels/news/comment-les-biais-cognitifs-influencent-lhesitation-vaccinale-conversation-december-1-2021-335310 <p>Dr. Louise Pilote, Professor in the Department of Medicine and member of the School of Population and Global Health Leadership Team, co-authored a recent piece in <em>The Conversation.</em></p> <p style="margin-left:40px"><em>"</em>En 2011, l’Organisation mondiale de la santé a reconnu la réticence à la vaccination comme un enjeu de plus en plus important. Elle en a fait une nouvelle priorité, principalement en raison du retour de maladies évitables par la vaccination, comme la rougeole en Europe et aux États-Unis."</p> Fri, 03 Dec 2021 23:29:06 +0000 stephanie.laroche-pierre@mcgill.ca 1076 at /spgh