Catherine Régis appointed as member of expert panel on health data sharing
Law professor Catherine Régis has been appointed as a member of the Council of Canadian Academies’ expert panel on health data sharing, the Université de Montréal Faculty of Law announced.
The expert panel comprises individuals with expertise in a broad range of health topics, such as ethics, health data science management, health law, health service delivery and public health policy, health systems, and health economics. It was established to examine the implications and opportunities of health data sharing in Canada.
“As a member of the expert panel, Professor Régis will make an invaluable contribution to evidence-based policy in Canada,” the law faculty said. “It is through the hard work of expert panel members that the CCA can produce high-quality assessments that the federal government and other stakeholders rely on to inform public policy development.”
Régis currently holds the Canada Research Chair on Collaborative Culture in Health Law and Policy. As the chairholder, she is exploring the roles that law and public policy play in achieving the goals of cooperation in health care systems. Her research seeks to help health professionals, corporations, administrators, policy makers, and the public collaborate to achieve health system goals.
She is also the present chair of the Human-Centered AI+ lab (HAICU) for the U7+ Alliance of World Universities – an international alliance of university presidents seeking to define concrete actions that universities can take to collectively address global challenges in coordination with government leaders in G7 countries and beyond.
Régis is also a researcher at the Public Law Research Centre, the Research Centre of the University of Montreal Health Centre, the International Observatory on the Social Impacts of Artificial Intelligence, and the Mila - Quebec AI Institute.
She collaborates with a number of interdisciplinary international research teams in medicine, AI, management, engineering, and psychology. She is also frequently invited as a visiting professor in various countries, including France and Israel.
Her work has been published in numerous national and international journals focusing on digital innovation in healthcare, collaborative governance in health systems, the World Health Organization’s normative action, innovative models of medical practice, and the prevention and resolution of health inequities.
