Shane K. Green

Affiliation

Program Leader, Ethical, Social & Cultural (ESC) Program for Global Health
Sandra Rotman Centre

Committee membership

Stem Cell Oversight Committee

Biography

Shane Green leads the Ethical, Social and Cultural (ESC) Program for Global Health, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to provide ESC consultation services in support of the foundation's Global Health Program. He is responsible for managing and delivering the ESC Program and contributing across various research portfolios, most recently focusing on the impact of research on hormonal contraception and HIV acquisition risk, and ethical issues in rotavirus vaccine development and deployment.

Dr. Green specializes in the ethics of biotechnological ("benchside") research and research involving human subjects and has dedicated the past 10 years to the integration of ethics into biological research endeavors. Previously, he was the Lead of Social Impact Programs and Director of Outreach at the Ontario Genomics Institute (OGI), leading OGI's public outreach and education initiatives as well as its program to provide support to researchers funded through the organization in considering the ethical, economic, environmental, legal and social issues ("GE3LS") related to their research.

Dr. Green earned his specialized honours BSc in Molecular Biology and Genetics from the University of Guelph, and his PhD in Medical Biophysics from the University of Toronto (U of T), specializing in cell and molecular biology of human cancers. He has studied and taught bioethics and research ethics through U of T, the U of T Joint Centre for Bioethics and the American Medical Association (Chicago, IL). He has served on the Research Ethics Boards of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, and is currently a member of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Stem Cell Oversight Committee, ELSI Working Group of the Ontario Health Study, and a lecturer in Health Care Ethics in the U of T Department of Human Biology.