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Fern Brunger

Community Health
BA (Hons) (University of Winnipeg), MA (McGill), PhD (McGill)
Associate Professor of Health Care Ethics

Rm: HSC 2830
t:777-7284; f:777-7382

fbrunger@mun.ca
Courses:
  • Critical Theory in Health and Society (MED6102)
  • Mental Health and Ethics (special topics)
  • Social and Cultural Issues in Genetics (MED6103)
Research Interests:
  • Research ethics - governance of health research involving communitites
  • Social studies of science and medicine - genetics/genomics
  • Anthropology - Nationalism and community identity
  • Clinical ethics - cross-cultural issues
Research:

The Labrador Inuit-Metis Research Ethics Project: An experiment in Aboriginal governance of health research in complex communities
Principal Investigator: Fern Brunger
Co-Investigators: J. Bull, G. Graham, D. Pullman, D. Wall, C. Weijer
Funding Agency: CIHR Operating Grant
Duration: 2010-2013
Amount: $180,000

Highlighted Accomplishments:
  • 2011 - Canadian Association of Medial Education (CAME) Certificate of Merit Award
  • 2009 - Newfoundland and Labrador Chapter of the College of Family Physicians of Canada, Award of Excellence in Teaching, for the MUN-MED Gateway Project (with P. Duke and G. Farrell)
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