• Bashir.Jiwani@fraserhealth.ca

Areas of interest

Clinical and organizational bioethics; Ethics education and ethical literacy; Pluralism and bioethics in diverse societies

Biography

Dr. Bashir Jiwani is Lead Ethicist and Executive Director of Ethics Services at Fraser Health Authority, where he has led the clinical and organizational ethics program since 2005. Fraser Health serves a population of more than 1.9 million people across the traditional territories of the Coast Salish and Nlaka'pamux Nations. His work supports complex decision-making in patient care and policy contexts, builds organizational capacity for ethical reflection, and develops system-wide frameworks grounded in values-based decision-making.
Bashir holds a PhD in Public Health Sciences from the University of Alberta, an MA in Philosophy with a specialty in Bioethics from the University of British Columbia, and a BA in Philosophy from McGill University. He previously held an appointment as Assistant Adjunct Professor at the John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre at the University of Alberta and has supervised graduate students across health disciplines.
He is a member of the Bioethics Council for Canada and Past President of the Canadian Bioethics Society. He currently serves on Health Canada's Implementation Advisory Group on Drugs for Rare Diseases and BC's Provincial Expensive Drug for Rare Diseases Advisory Committee, among other national and provincial advisory roles.

His publications include Good Decisions: Ethical Decision-Making Toolkit for Policy Makers (Springer, 2020) and Clinical Ethics Consultation: A Practical Guide (Springer, 2017), along with peer-reviewed articles on ethical frameworks, resource allocation, public health ethics, and organizational decision-making. His areas of specialization include bioethics, values-based decision-making in health systems, public health ethics, and the ethical analysis of policy, resource allocation, and emerging technologies including artificial intelligence.
At SFU, Bashir looks forward to contributing to the Faculty of Health Sciences through guest lectures, practicum support, and research collaborations on clinical and organizational ethics.