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Jennifer Bell

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Assistant ProfessorClinical Public Health DivisionUniversity of Toronto

Jennifer Bell

Assistant Professor

Clinical Public Health Division

Dalla Lana School of Public Health

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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1 publication in the last five years, latest in 2022.
Principal investigator on 3 research grants (2 CIHR, 1 SSHRC), most recently in 2025.

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Research

Informed Consent Artificial Intelligence Cancer Clinical Trials Consensus-Based Methodology Knowledge Engagement Large Language Models Patient-Oriented Research Research Ethics

Latest papers

Ethical decision making during a healthcare crisis: a resource allocation framework and tool.
Journal of medical ethics · 2022
Neonatal hyperbilirubinemia and Rhesus disease of the newborn: incidence and impairment estimates for 2010 at regional and global levels.
Pediatric research · 2013
Healthcare provider moral distress as a leadership challenge.
JONA'S healthcare law, ethics and regulation · 2008 · first author

All 4 publications

Latest funding

Exploring Autonomy Development Among Emerging Adults Living with Chronic Conditions
SSHRC · 2026 · Co-investigator
$81,549
Navigating technological transformations of healthcare: Best practices of governance in complex labour ecosystems
CIHR · 2026 · Co-investigator
$340,424
Developing Ethical Guidelines for the Integration of Artificial Intelligence in Participant Consent for Cancer Clinical Trials
CIHR · 2025 · Nominated PI
$30,000

All 10 grants and awards

Exploring Autonomy Development Among Emerging Adults Living with Chronic Conditions

Co-investigatorSSHRC2026Insight Development Grants

Principal investigators: Killackey, Tieghan

$81,549

Navigating technological transformations of healthcare: Best practices of governance in complex labour ecosystems

Co-investigatorCIHR2026Project Grant

Principal investigators: Rowland, Paula

Keywords: Digital Technologies; Professional Regulation

$340,424

Developing Ethical Guidelines for the Integration of Artificial Intelligence in Participant Consent for Cancer Clinical Trials

Nominated PICIHR2025Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Bell, Jennifer; Quinn, Kieran L

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Cancer Clinical Trials; Consensus-Based Methodology; Informed Consent; Knowledge Engagement; Large Language Models; Patient-Oriented Research; Research Ethics

$30,000

Addressing racism, sexism and ageism in oncology care in Canada: a national discussion on how to improve cancer care.

Co-investigatorCIHR2025Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Puts, Maria (Martine) T; Noel, Ken; Alibhai, Shabbir M

Keywords: Ageism; Cancer Care; Geriatric Oncology; Older Adults; Racism; Workshop

$24,932

Depression and Decision-Making for Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) in Advanced Cancer

Co-investigatorCIHR2024Project Grant

Principal investigators: Li, Madeline; Rodin, Gary M

Keywords: Cancer; Capacity; Decision-Making; Depression; Desire For Hastened Death; Medical Assistance In Dying (Maid); Medical Communication; Palliative Care; Psychological Suffering; Psychosocial Oncology

$493,425

Workplace Learning and the Future of Work: Exploring the Cognitive, Practical, and Ethical Dimensions of Incorporating New Information Technologies in Public Sectors

Co-investigatorSSHRC2022New Frontiers in Research Fund - Exploration

Principal investigators: Rowland, Paula

Keywords: health information systems; sociology of work; sociology of professions; ethics; workplace learning

$57,597

Personalized Genetic Drug Technologies and Medical Economies in Canada: Moral Experiment or Curative Renaissance?

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Bell, Jennifer A.H.

Keywords: bioethics; public deliberation; patient and caregiver engagement; qualitative methods; critical ethnography; personalized medicine

$18,466

Quality of Death in Hospital and Bereavement Outcomes in the COVID-19 Era

Co-investigatorCIHR2020Operating Grant: COVID-19 - Project Grant

Principal investigators: Nissim, Rinat; Hales, Sarah A

Keywords: Bereavement; Covid-19; Grief; Mixed Methods; Palliative Care; Quality Of Death

$294,525

The Longitudinal Study of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) in Patients with Advanced Cancer

Co-investigatorCIHR2018Project Grant

Principal investigators: Li, Madeline; Rodin, Gary M

Keywords: Advanced Directives; Attachment; Cancer; Desire For Hastened Death; Euthanasia; Medical Assistance In Dying (Maid); Medical Communication; Palliative Care; Psychological Distress; Psychosocial Oncology

$818,550

Cancer Patient Autonomy & Decision-Making in Early-Phase Trial Recruitment

Nominated PICIHR2017Catalyst Grant: Ethics

Principal investigators: Bell, Jennifer

Keywords: Cancer; Clinical Trials; Ethics; Informed Consent; Patient Decision Making; Qualitative Research Methods; Tool Development

$99,982

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Jennifer Bell

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Ethical decision making during a healthcare crisis: a resource allocation framework and tool.

Neonatal hyperbilirubinemia and Rhesus disease of the newborn: incidence and impairment estimates for 2010 at regional and global levels.

Healthcare provider moral distress as a leadership challenge.

Top 10 health care ethics challenges facing the public: views of Toronto bioethicists.

Exploring Autonomy Development Among Emerging Adults Living with Chronic Conditions

Navigating technological transformations of healthcare: Best practices of governance in complex labour ecosystems

Developing Ethical Guidelines for the Integration of Artificial Intelligence in Participant Consent for Cancer Clinical Trials

Addressing racism, sexism and ageism in oncology care in Canada: a national discussion on how to improve cancer care.

Depression and Decision-Making for Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) in Advanced Cancer

Workplace Learning and the Future of Work: Exploring the Cognitive, Practical, and Ethical Dimensions of Incorporating New Information Technologies in Public Sectors

Personalized Genetic Drug Technologies and Medical Economies in Canada: Moral Experiment or Curative Renaissance?

Quality of Death in Hospital and Bereavement Outcomes in the COVID-19 Era

The Longitudinal Study of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) in Patients with Advanced Cancer

Cancer Patient Autonomy & Decision-Making in Early-Phase Trial Recruitment

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Barry Rubin