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Biography

Françoise Baylis, CM, ONS, FRSC, FCAHS, FISC is Distinguished Research Professor Emerita at Dalhousie University. She is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and the International Science Council

Professor Baylis has an extensive publication record that spans many topics, including the role of bioethics consultants, women's health, research involving pregnant women, human embryo research, genome editing and other novel technologies. At the center of her research lie questions of social justice as these concern our responsibilities to future generations. Her work challenges readers to think broadly and deeply about the direction of health research and technology.

She is the author of Altered Inheritance: CRISPR and the Ethics of Human Genome Editing (2019). She is a co-editor of Bioethics in Action (2018), Clinical Research Involving Pregnant Women (2016) and Family-making: Contemporary Ethical Challenges (2014).

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Employment (2)

Dalhousie University: Halifax, Nova Scotia, CA

1996-08-01 to present | Distinguished Research Professor, Emerita
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Arizona State University: Phoenix, Arizona, US

2010 to 2019 | Adjunct Professor (Centre for Biology and Society)
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Education and qualifications (5)

University of Western Ontario : London, Ontario, CA

1989 | PhD Philosophy (specialization in Bioethics) (Philosophy)
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University of Western Ontario: London, Ontario, CA

1984 | MA Philosophy (Philosophy)
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McGill University: Montreal, Quebec, CA

1983 | BA (First Class Honours) (Political Science)
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Laurentian University: Sudbury, Ontario, CA

1981 | Certificate of Law and Justice (Law)
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Laurentian University: Sudbury, Ontario, CA

1981 | Certificate of Bilingualism
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Funding (24)

Should your tax dollars pay for IVF?

2013-09-01 to 2014-08-31 | Grant
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Ottawa, CA)
GRANT_NUMBER: 131881
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The Human Egg Trade

2012-09-04 to 2013-09-03 | Grant
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Ottawa, CA)
GRANT_NUMBER: 124436
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Impact Ethics: Making a Difference

2012-07-01 to 2013-06-30 | Grant
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Ottawa, CA)
GRANT_NUMBER: 122661
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Stem Cell Network/Réseau de cellules souches

2012-04-01 to 2014-03-31 | Grant
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Ottawa, CA)
GRANT_NUMBER: 524633
GRANT_NUMBER: 524633
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The Social Responsibility of Gaming

2012-04-01 to 2013-03-31 | Grant
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Ottawa, CA)
GRANT_NUMBER: 125050
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Family-Making: Contemporary Ethical Challenges

2012-02-01 to 2013-01-31 | Grant
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Ottawa, CA)
GRANT_NUMBER: 119620
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The Rise in Childhood Bipolar Behaviors: Concerns and Questions?

2011-09-01 to 2012-08-31 | Grant
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Ottawa, CA)
GRANT_NUMBER: 116796
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A comparative study of assisted human reproduction patients' views about the donation of eggs and embryos for scientific and clincal research

2011-04-01 to 2014-03-31 | Grant
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Ottawa, CA)
GRANT_NUMBER: 111389
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Let Conscience Be Their Guide? Conscientious Refusals in Reproductive Health Care

2010-04-01 to 2013-03-31 | Grant
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Ottawa, CA)
GRANT_NUMBER: 102516
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Brain Matters - New Directions in Neuroethics

2009-01-01 to 2009-12-31 | Grant
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Ottawa, CA)
GRANT_NUMBER: 92671
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Stem Cell Network/Réseau de cellules souches

2007-04-01 to 2012-03-31 | Grant
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Ottawa, CA)
GRANT_NUMBER: 479161
GRANT_NUMBER: 479161
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Pandemic Planning and Foundational Ethical Questions of Justice, the Common Good and the Public Interest

2007-02-01 to 2009-01-31 | Grant
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Ottawa, CA)
GRANT_NUMBER: 83161
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States of Mind: Emerging Issues in Neuroethics

2006-04-01 to 2011-03-31 | Grant
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Ottawa, CA)
GRANT_NUMBER: 80045
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Therapeutic hopes and ethical concerns: Clinical research in the neurosciences

2005-10-01 to 2009-09-30 | Grant
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Ottawa, CA)
GRANT_NUMBER: 77670
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States of Mind: Emerging Issues in Neuroethics

2005-07-01 to 2005-12-31 | Grant
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Ottawa, CA)
GRANT_NUMBER: 77205
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Big-Picture Bioethics: policy-making and liberal democracy

2005-01-01 to 2008-12-31 | Grant
Australian Research Council (Canberra, AU)
GRANT_NUMBER: DP0556068
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CANADA RESEARCH CHAIRHOLDER / TITULAIRE DE CHAIRE DE RECHERCHE DU CANADA

2004-10-01 to 2018-09-30 | Grant
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Ottawa, CA)
GRANT_NUMBER: 70276
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Intellectual Commons

2004-06-16 to present | Grant
Canada Foundation for Innovation (Ottawa, CA)
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Ethical frameworks for health policy: Apprisal, appraisal and applications

2004-01-01 to 2006-12-31 | Grant
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Ottawa, CA)
GRANT_NUMBER: 66657
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Conceptual and ethical issues at the intersection of genomics, developmental biology, ecology, and health - III

2003-10-01 to 2005-08-31 | Grant
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Ottawa, CA)
GRANT_NUMBER: 64192
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CIHR Training Grant in Health Law, Ethics and Policy

2002-03-01 to 2015-03-31 | Grant
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Ottawa, CA)
GRANT_NUMBER: 53876
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Proposal for an ethics of health research training program

2002-03-01 to 2009-03-31 | Grant
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Ottawa, CA)
GRANT_NUMBER: 53920
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Gene therapy for neurological disease

2001-04-01 to 2006-03-31 | Grant
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Ottawa, CA)
GRANT_NUMBER: 49625
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Justice for all: Novel genetic technologies and obligations to future generations

2001-04-01 to 2002-03-31 | Grant
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Ottawa, CA)
GRANT_NUMBER: 47906
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Heritable human genome editing is ‘currently not permitted’, but it is no longer ‘prohibited’: so says the ISSCR

Journal of Medical Ethics
2023-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Françoise Baylis
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ISSCR: grave omission of age limit for embryo research

Nature
2021-06-24 | Journal article
Contributors: Josephine Johnston; Françoise Baylis; Henry T. Greely
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ISSCR guidelines fudge heritable human-genome editing

Nature
2021-06-17 | Journal article
Contributors: Françoise Baylis
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Vaccination certificates could entrench inequality

Nature
2021-03-25 | Journal article
Contributors: Françoise Baylis; Natalie Kofler
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To publish or not to publish

Nature Biotechnology
2020-03-13 | Journal article
Contributors: Françoise Baylis
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Canada's Prohibition on Payment for Surrogacy, Eggs, and Sperm

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada
2018-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Fran¸oise Baylis
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‘No’ to lesbian motherhood using human nuclear genome transfer

Journal of Medical Ethics
2018-12-25 | Journal article
Contributors: Françoise Baylis
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Editorial misconduct

Public Affairs Quarterly
2017-04-01 | Journal article
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Still Gloria

International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics
2017-04-01 | Journal article
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Clinical Research Involving Pregnant Women

Research Ethics Forum
2016 | Book
Contributors: Françoise Baylis; Angela Ballantyne
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Human Nuclear Genome Transfer (So-Called Mitochondrial Replacement): Clearing the Underbrush

Bioethics
2016 | Journal article
Contributors: Françoise Baylis
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Missed Trials, Future Opportunities

Clinical Research Involving Pregnant Women
2016 | Other
Contributors: Françoise Baylis; Angela Ballantyne
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Policy Design for Human Embryo Research in Canada: 1989–2015

Big Picture Bioethics: Developing Democratic Policy in Contested Domains
2016 | Other
Contributors: Françoise Baylis; Matthew Herder
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Why Physicians and Women Should Want Pregnant Women Included in Clinical Trials

Clinical Research Involving Pregnant Women
2016 | Other
Contributors: Françoise Baylis; Robyn MacQuarrie
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CRISPR-Cas9 system

Clinical Chemistry
2016-08-22 | Journal article
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A Review of Consent Documents From Canadian IVF Clinics, 1991 to 2014

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada
2016-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Timothy M. Krahn; Françoise Baylis
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A relational view of concience and physician conscientious action

International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics
2015 | Journal article
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Human embryos and eggs: from long-term storage to biobanking

Monash Bioethics Review
2015 | Journal article
Contributors: Françoise Baylis; Heather Widdows
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Why the government won't regulate assisted human reproduction

McGill Journal of Law and Health
2015 | Journal article
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Frozen in perpetuity: ‘abandoned embryos’ in Canada

Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online
2015-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Alana Cattapan; Françoise Baylis
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Contesting estimates of cryopreserved embryos in the United States

Nature Biotechnology
2015-09-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Dave Snow; Alana Cattapan; Françoise Baylis
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Who will implement WHO's statement on public disclosure of trial results?

The Lancet
2015-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Françoise Baylis; Matthew Herder
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Social Egg Freezing: Risk, Benefit and Social Considerations

Canadian Medical Association Journal
2015-04-13 | Journal article
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Family-Making: Contemporary Ethical Challenges, edited by Françoise Baylis and Carolyn McLeodFamily-Making: Contemporary Ethical Challenges. Edited by Françoise Baylis and Carolyn McLeod. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.

IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics
2015-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Vida Panitch
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Left Out in the Cold: Arguments Against Non-Medical Oocyte Cryopreservation

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada
2015-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Françoise Baylis
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Crossing Species Boundaries

Ethics and Emerging Technologies
2014 | Other
Contributors: Jason Robert; Françoise Baylis
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Infertility

Reference Module in Biomedical Sciences
2014 | Other
Contributors: F. Baylis
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ACHIEVING NATIONAL ALTRUISTIC SELF-SUFFICIENCY IN HUMAN EGGS FOR THIRD-PARTY REPRODUCTION IN CANADA

IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics
2014-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Françoise Baylis; Jocelyn Downie
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Neuroethics and Identity

Handbook of Neuroethics
2014-09 | Other
Contributors: Françoise Baylis
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Introduction

International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics
2014-09-21 | Journal article
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Transnational reproductive travel

International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics
2014-09-21 | Journal issue or edition
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Introduction

Contemporary Ethical Challenges
2014-07 | Book chapter
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Transnational Commercial Contract Pregnancy in India

Contemporary Ethical Challenges
2014-07 | Book chapter
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Family-Making

2014-07-03 | Book
Contributors: Françoise Baylis; Carolyn McLeod
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Introduction

Family-Making
2014-07-03 | Other
Contributors: Françoise Baylis; Carolyn McLeod
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Transnational Commercial Contract Pregnancy in India

Family-Making
2014-07-03 | Other
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Fake it Till You Make it: Policymaking and Assisted Human Reproduction in Canada

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada
2014-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Françoise Baylis; Jocelyn Downie; Dave Snow
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The OHRP and SUPPORT - Another View

New England Journal of Medicine
2013-07-11 | Journal article
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The ethics of creating children with three genetic parents

Reproductive BioMedicine Online
2013-06 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1472-6483
Contributors: Françoise Baylis
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The Tale of Assisted Human Reproduction Canada: A Tragedy in Five Acts

Canadian Journal of Women and the Law/Revue Femmes et Droit
2013-03-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0832-8781
Contributors: Françoise Baylis; Jocelyn Downie
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Embryo Research

International Encyclopedia of Ethics
2013-02-01 | Other
Contributors: Françoise Baylis
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Stem Cell Research

International Encyclopedia of Ethics
2013-01 | Other
Contributors: FranÇoise Baylis
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Embryo Research

International Encyclopedia of Bioethics
2013-01-16 | Encyclopedia entry
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Infertility

Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics
2012 | Other
Contributors: F. Baylis
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La fin de Procréation assistée Canada

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada
2012-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Françoise Baylis
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The Demise of Assisted Human Reproduction Canada

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada
2012-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Françoise Baylis
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Promises and Perils of Cognitive Performance Tools

Neurotechnology
2012-04-02 | Other
Contributors: Erik Viirre; Françoise Baylis; Jocelyn Downie
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Research involving pregnant women: trials and tribulations

Clinical Investigation
2012-02 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2041-6792
Contributors: Françoise Baylis; Scott A Halperin
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Ill-Informed Consent? A Content Analysis of Physical Risk Disclosure in School-Based HPV Vaccine Programs

Public Health Nurs
2011-10 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0737-1209
Contributors: Audrey Steenbeek; Noni MacDonald; Jocelyn Downie; Mary Appleton; Françoise Baylis
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“I Am Who I Am”: On the Perceived Threats to Personal Identity from Deep Brain Stimulation

Neuroethics
2011-09 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1874-5490
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