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HEALTH ETHICS TODAY
Volume 9, Number 1, November 1997
Provincial Health Ethics Network News
The Provincial Health Ethics Network has established a User Fund to
provide grants of up to $500 to Network members wishing to undertake
educational projects to enhance their awareness of health ethics issues.
The fund is designed to:
- increase Bioethics resources within the Province to enhance health
ethics discussion and decision-making, and
- assist the Network in its educational efforts by enhancing Bioethics
expertise in the Province to play a role in the future education of
other healthcare providers and Albertans.
The fund is intended to support only those projects that would not otherwise
be undertaken without additional financial assistance from the Network.
Acceptable uses of funds include attendance at healthcare ethics conferences
including workshops sponsored by the Provincial Health Ethics Network,
or initiation of a local project that will serve to enhance reflection
and decision-making around ethical issues in health care. The Network
expects that individual applicants will seek funding from their own agencies
and will contribute toward the total cost themselves. Funds cannot be
used to support thesis work or graduate study. Award recipients will
be expected to share their experiences and knowledge with others in their
ethics committees, agencies or communities, and may be requested to provide
a written submission for publication in the Network newsletter. Grants
are open to all individual and institutional PHEN members in Alberta.
Institutional memberships are available for $25 and individual memberships
for $10 annually.
Applications for awards under the grant will be reviewed three times
per calendar year. The next application deadline is NOVEMBER 15, 1997.
For application forms, contact the Network's Edmonton Office at 1-800-472-4066.
We are pleased to announce that Gail Poole, LLB, has joined the staff
of the Provincial Health Ethics Network as the Northern Alberta Coordinator,
based in our Edmonton office. Gail has practiced both law and speech
pathology in Victoria, B.C. Most recently, she has studied medical ethics
at the Biomedical Ethics Unit at McGill University and at the MacLean
Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago.
Unfortunately, PHEN is losing Laurie Hardingham, as she is returning
to the University of Calgary full-time to complete her doctoral studies.
Al-Noor Nathoo moved to the Calgary office in mid-September to assume
the position of Southern Alberta Coordinator.
We have been privileged to have the assistance of several research assistants
- Rachel Lynch, Jai Shah, and Bashir Jiwani - for the last several months,
in part, to assist with the production of new teaching modules. Brochures
containing a list and description of all modules with the new pricing
structure will be available for distribution in the near future.
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