Jennifer A.H. Bell

Hon B.A., M.A., Ph.D.

Dr. Jennifer Bell is a bioethicist at the University Health Network (UHN), research scientist within the Department of Supportive Care, Research Division at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, and education investigator 2 at The Institute for Education Research (TIER) at UHN. Dr. Bell is an assistant professor (status only) in the Department of Psychiatry and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, and a member of the Joint Centre for Bioethics at the University of Toronto. Dr. Bell’s program of research addresses urgent ethical issues raised by revolutionary advances in cancer care, such as immune-oncology and gene editing technologies. As an early career scholar, she has led multiple funded projects focused on ethics and clinical trials and novel therapeutics. In recognition of her research achievements, she was honoured in 2020 with an Early Career Investigator Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research presented by the Canadian Association for Psychosocial Oncology. Dr. Bell is an ethicist member of the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health, the pan-Canadian Oncology Drug Review Expert Review Committee, and the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer – Health Economics Advisory Committee. Within Princess Margaret, Dr. Bell has experience developing fair priority-setting processes to support equitable patient access to emerging and costly therapies as well as clinical trials. She is Principal Investigator of the JustCan Ethics lab www.justcanethicslab.ca

Dr. Bell enjoys rock climbing, playing the banjo and sometimes the oud, and spending time with family.