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Ritvo P, Wilson K, Gibson JL, Guglietti C, Tracy CS, Nie JX, Jadad AR, Upshur REG. Canadian survey on pandemic flu preparations. BMC Public Healthl. 2010 Mar;10(125).

Silva DS, Nie JX, Rossiter K, Sahni SS, Upshur REG. Contextualizing Ethics: Ventilators, H1N1 and Marginalized Populations. Healthcare Quarterly. 2010;13(1):32-36.

Smith MJ, Bernard C, Rossiter K, Sahni SS, Silva DS. Vulnerability: A Contentious and Fluid Term. The Hastings Center Report. 2010;40(1).

Davies CE, Zlotnik-Shaul R. Physicians' legal duty of care and legal right to refuse to work during a pandemic. Canadian Medical Association Journal. 2010 Feb 9;182(2):167-70. Epub 2009 Dec 14.

CanPREP White Paper Series. The CanPREP team has prepared a series of ‘white papers’ on the ethical challenges posed by pandemic influenza. This series contains nine 3-page white papers outlining research findings from the major CanPREP themes: Duty to Care - Ethical Considerations, Duty to Care - Legal Considerations, Restrictive Measures, Priority Setting, Global Ethics, Risk Communication, Vaccines, Vulnerability, and Public Trust.

Nie JX, Sahni SS, Sellers CES, Smith MJ, Viens AM, Upshur REG. Public Engagement on Social Distancing in a Pandemic: A Canadian Perspective. American Journal of Bioethics 2009; 9(11): 15-25.

O’Malley P, Rainford J, Thompson A. Transparency during public health emergencies: from rhetoric to reality. WHO Bulletin. 2009;87:614-18.

Wilson K, von Tigerstrom B, McDougall CW. Protecting global health security through the International Health Regulations: requirements and challenges. Canadian Medical Association Journal 2008; 179(1):44-48.

Wilson K, McDougall CW, Lazar H, Fidler DP. Strategies for implementing the new International Health Regulations in decentralized states. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2008; 86(3): 215-220.

McDougall CW, Wilson K. Canada’s obligations to global public health security under the revised International Health Regulations. Health Law Review 2007; 16(1): 25-32.

Attaran A, Wilson K. Legal and epidemiological justification for federal authority in public health emergencies. McGill Law Journal 2007;52:381-414.

Wilson K. Pandemic threats and the need for new emergency legislation in Canada. Healthcare Policy / Politiques de Sante. 2006;2:35-42.

Wilson K, MacLennan C. Federalism and public health law in Canada: opportunities and unanswered questions. Health Law Review 2005:14;3-13.

Wilson K, Lazar H. Planning for the next pandemic threat: defining the federal role in public health emergencies. Policy Matters 2005 November; 6 (5).

Wilson K. The complexities of multi-level governance in public health. Canadian Journal of Public Health 2004;95:409-411.

Nuffield Council on Bioethics. Public health ethics: ethical issues. London, England: Nuffield Council on Bioethics 2007 November.

Dawson A, Verweij M. The steward of the Millian state. Public Health Ethics 2008; 1(3):193-5.

Joint Centre for Bioethics Pandemic Ethics Working Group. The duty to care in a pandemic. Am J Bioeth. 2008 Aug;8(8):31-3.

Keelan J, Pavri-Garcia V, Tomlinson G, Wilson K. YouTube as a source of information on immunization: a content analysis. JAMA. 2007 Dec 5;298(21):2482-4.

Bensimon CM, Tracy CS, Bernstein M, Shaul RZ, Upshur RE. A qualitative study of the duty to care in communicable disease outbreaks. Soc Sci Med. 2007 Dec;65(12):2566-75. Epub 2007 Aug 31.

Ruderman C, Tracy CS, Bensimon CM, Bernstein M, Hawryluck L, Shaul RZ, Upshur RE. On pandemics and the duty to care: whose duty? who cares? BMC Med Ethics. 2006 Apr 20;7:E5.

Thompson AK, Faith K, Gibson JL, Upshur RE. Pandemic influenza preparedness: an ethical framework to guide decision-making. BMC Med Ethics. 2006 Dec 4;7:E12.

University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics Pandemic Influenza Working Group. Stand on Guard for Thee: Ethical considerations in preparedness planning for pandemic influenza. November 2005.

Gibson JL, Martin DK, Singer PA. Evidence, economics and ethics: resource allocation in health services organizations. Healthc Q. 2005;8(2):50-9, 4.

Tracy CS, Upshur RE, Daar AS. Avian influenza and pandemics. N Engl J Med. 2005 May 5;352(18):1928.

Ritvo P, Wilson K, Willms D, Upshur R, Goldman A, Kelvin D, Rosenthal KL, Rinfret A, Kaul R, Krahn M; CANVAC Sociobehavioural Study Group. Vaccines in the public eye. Nat Med. 2005 Apr;11(4 Suppl):S20-4.

Singer PA, Benatar SR, Bernstein M, Daar AS, Dickens BM, MacRae SK, Upshur RE, Wright L, Shaul RZ. Ethics and SARS: lessons from Toronto. BMJ. 2003 Dec 6;327(7427):1342-4.

Thompson A, Robertson A, Upshur R. Public health ethics: towards a research agenda. Acta Bioethica. 2003; 9(2).

Upshur R. Ethics and infectious disease. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2008 August;86(8):654.

McDougall CW, Upshur RE, Wilson K. Emerging norms for the control of emerging epidemics. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2008 August; 86(8):643-5.

Wilson K, Gardam M, McDougall C, Attaran A, Upshur R. Comment on: PLoS Med. 2007 May; 4(5):e197 WHO’s response to global public health threats: XDR-TB. PLoS Med. 2007 July 31;4(7):e246.

Bensimon CM, Upshur RE. Evidence and effectiveness in decision-making for quarantine. American Journal of Public Health 2007 April; 97 Supplement 1:S44-8.Epub 2007 April 5.

RE Upshur. Enhancing the legitimacy of public health response in pandemic influenza planning; lessons from SARS. Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine 2005 October; 78(5):335-42.

Wilson K, McDougall C, Upshur R; Joint Centre for Bioethics SARS Global Health Ethics Research Group. The new International Health Regulations and the federalism dilemma. PLoS Medicine 2006 January; 3(1):e1. Epub 2005 December 20.

Tracy CS, Upshur RE, Daar AS. Comment on: New England Journal of Medicine 2005 January 27;352(4):405-7. Avian influenza and pandemics. New England Journal of Medicine 2005 May 5; 352(18):1928.

Bell JA, Hyland s, DePellegrin T, Upshur RE, Bernstein M, Martin DK. SARS and hospital priority setting: a qualitative case study and evaluation. BMC Health Services Research 2004 December 19; 4(1):36.

Nickell LA, Crighton EJ, Tracy CS, Al-Enazy H, Bolaji Y, Hanjrah S, Hussain A, Makhlouf S, Upshur RE. Psychosocial effects of SARS on hospital staff: survey of a large tertiary care institution. CMAJ 2004 March 2; 170(5):793-8.

Bevan JC, Upshur RE. Anesthesia, ethics and severe acute respiratory syndrome. Canadian Journal of Anesthesia 2003 December; 50(10):977-9, 979-82 [article in English and French].

Faust HS, Bensimon CM, Upshur RE. The Role of Faith-Based Organizations in the Ethical Aspects of Pandemic Flu Planning—Lessons Learned from the Toronto SARS Experience. Public Health Ethics 2009 February; 2(1):105-12.

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