Research Projects

current projects

Study of the normative impact of the World Health Organization on domestic law

Source of funding: Canada Research Chair in Collaborative Culture in Health Law and Policy and other granting agencies (pending applications) 

Type of project: Comparative legal research

 

Critical analysis of the anticipated new medical directives regime in Quebec 

Source of funding: Canada Research Chair in Collaborative Culture in Health Law and Policy and other granting agencies (obtained) 

Type of project: Legal and ethical analysis

 

Analysis of the role of judicial medical expertise in terms of access to justice

Source of funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, as part of the ADAJ project: http://adaj.ca/

Type of project: Comparative legal analysis with respect to the judicial environment

 

 

The integration of information technology into the health sector (with Vincent Gautrais)

Source of funding: L.R. Wilson Chair and Canada Research Chair in Collaborative Culture in Health Law and Policy

Type of project: Legal and interdisciplinary research

 

France – Quebec comparative study on class actions in health

Source of funding: Paris Descartes University’s Institut droit et santé (health and law institute) and Canada Research Chair in Collaborative Culture in Health Law and Policy

Type of project: Comparative legal research and establishment of an observatory

Writing of a work on health law (with Lara Khoury)

Source of funding: Fondation du Barreau du Québec (Quebec bar association foundation) (among others)

Type of project: Work on health law

 

Writing of a comparative law work on dignity in health law

Source of funding: Canada Research Chair in Collaborative Culture in Health Law and Policy and University of Montpellier

Type of project: Work on health law

 

Evaluating the effectiveness of the complaints review system in the Quebec health system: A benefits-rich approach

Source of funding:  Stakeholders in the sector (obtained) and the Ministère des relations internationales (ministry of international relations) (obtained)

Type of project: Action research in the sector

 

Patient complaints in France and Quebec: Tools for assessing health risks and improving health systems

Source of funding: Paris Descartes University’s Institut droit et santé (health and law institute) (obtained) and the French National Research Agency (pending applications)

Type of project:  France-Quebec comparative research with university partnership – practice environment

 

Medical compensation and effective clinical governance: A comparative analysis (principal researcher: Jean-Louise Denis, Enap)

Source of funding: Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et Culture (Quebec research fund – society and culture) (obtained)

Type of project: Comparative and interdisciplinary research

 

The impact of the private sector on conflict resolution in Quebec and Canada

Source of funding: Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et Culture (Quebec research fund – society and culture) (obtained)

Type of project: Legal and interdisciplinary research

 

Meetings in health law

Source of funding: Canada Research Chair in Collaborative Culture in Health Law and Policy, Regroupement stratégique droit, changement et gouvernance (strategic alliance for law, change, and governance), McGill Research Group on Health and Law, University of Sherbrooke Faculty of Law

Type of project: Implementation of a cycle of bilingual meetings on law and health, and publication of a collection of works on the themes chosen for these meetings

 

Health mediation: Cross-references between France and Canada

Source of funding:  France-Canada Research Fund (pending application)

Type of project:  France-Quebec comparative and interdisciplinary research

 

The challenge of collaboration in health systems

Source of funding: Canada Research Chair (2013-2019) (obtained)

Type of project: Research chair

 

Implementation network of a multi-sector consortium for the socio-ecological study of the Gulf of the St-Lawrence area

Source of funding: Stakeholders in the sector (obtained) and Fonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologie (Quebec research fund – nature and technology) (obtained 01-2015)

Type of project: Consortium of multi-sector experts

 

Inter-professional collaboration factors in the health sector: A critical review of existing literature

Source of funding: Organizing committee of symposiums on the inter-disciplinarity of professional orders

Type of project: Research and conference

 

Saving justice (with Daniel Weinstock and Karim Benyekhlef)

Source of funding: Del Busso Editor

Type of project: Collective work

 

STUDENT PROJECTS

The Health Happy Hour

Source of funding: Regroupement Droit, changements et gouvernance (strategic alliance for law, change, and governance) (obtained) and CIHR (obtained)

Type of project: Dissemination and knowledge translation activities - A student initiative (Gabrielle Bertier, Audrey Ferron Parayre and Laurence Largenté) aimed at promoting interdisciplinary dialogue and the involvement of young researchers in the challenges of health law.

This content has been updated on 30 August 2017 at 10 h 04 min.