Welcome New Faculty!

The Centre for Bioethics welcomes two new faculty members.

Nathalie Egalité

Nathalie Egalité recently completed postdoctoral training at Cleveland Clinic and held the inaugural John P. Murphy Fellowship in Medical Humanities at Lerner College of Medicine. Her academic background is in health care ethics. She earned an Honours BA with distinction from the University of Toronto, a MA from the University of Montreal, and a PhD from the University of Texas Medical Branch. She was a Junior Ethics Fellow in the Ethics and Health Unit at the World Health Organization. 

 Her research examines ethical issues pertaining to narratives to improve health care and align knowledge production with epistemic justice and social justice. She has published articles on the ethics of narratives, ethical, legal and social issues in genetics, research ethics, mental health and homelessness, and global bioethics. Her current projects examine ethical and epistemological issues pertaining to physician writing; decolonial perspectives on historical narratives of patient care; and the clinical integration of generative artificial intelligence.

Erik Magnusson

Erik Magnusson completed his D.Phil at the University of Oxford in 2016. Between 2016-2018, he held a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain, where he worked as a part a European Research Council project on Justice and the Family: An Analysis of the Normative Significance of Procreation and Parenting in a Just Society. Between 2018-2026, he worked at the University of Manitoba, where he served as a Research Facilitator in the Faculty of Education, a Sessional Instructor with the Departments of Political Science and Philosophy, and an Associate of the Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics. 

His research explores how morality applies to the family and regulates the relationships that exist within and between families. He is especially interested in questions about the moral rights and obligations of parents, including how adults come to acquire special rights and/or obligations to parent particular children, what they are morally permitted and/or obligated to do to, for, and with the children under their care, and how their procreative and parenting projects fit within broader accounts of social and distributive justice. His work on these issues has appeared in Bioethics, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Hastings Center Report​, Journal of Value Inquiry, Philosophia, Public Affairs Quarterly, and Social Theory and Practice, and he is the author of Procreative Justice: Balancing the Interests of Parents, Children, and Society (Routledge, 2025). 

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