Dr. Maxwell Smith is a bioethicist, Associate Professor, and CIHR Applied Public Health Chair in Ethics and Health Emergencies in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada.

Professor Smith is also the founding Director of Western’s Centre for Bioethics, serves as an Associate Director of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy, and is cross-appointed to the Department of Philosophy, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Schulich Interfaculty Program in Public Health.

He is currently the chair of the Public Health Ethics Advisory Committee of Ontario, co-chair of the Public Health Agency of Canada’s Public Health Ethics Consultative Group, and serves as a member of the Public Health Agency of Canada’s Advisory Committee on Science, Ontario Public Health Emergencies Science Advisory Committee, and World Health Organization Ethics & Governance of Infectious Disease Outbreaks Expert Working Group. Professor Smith’s research is in the area of public health ethics, with a focus on infectious disease ethics and the ethical demands that health equity and social justice place on governments and institutions to protect and promote the public’s health.