About

Jason Millar

Health Information Technology Ethics, eHealth Policy, Roboethics, Bioethics, Science and Technology Studies, Research Ethics, Clinical Bioethics

Jason Millar is a PhD candidate in the Philosophy department at Queen’s University at Kingston. His interests lie at the intersection of ethics, technology and society. As a CIHR Science Policy Fellow at Health Canada, Jason is currently researching the future of patient expertise in the context of Health Information Technology.

Jason teaches a 3rd year undergraduate course in Roboethics at Carleton University, and just completed teaching a graduate Seminar in Science Ethics  that he designed as part of an NSERC CREATE grant for the Queen’s University Chemistry Department.

Jason has also completed two clinical bioethics internships at the Kingston General Hospital in Kingston Ontario, and the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario. He currently sits on the Algonquin College Research Ethics Board.

Jason has won several scholarships including a CIHR Science Policy Fellowship, Joseph Armand Bombardier SSHRC CGS, a Queen’s University Tri-Council Recipient Recognition Award, and a SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship – Master’s.

Jason earned a B.Sc.E – Engineering Physics from Queen’s University and worked as an engineer designing ICTs for several years prior to returning to academia to complete a B.A. and M.A. in Philosophy at the University of Ottawa. While at the University of Ottawa he worked for several years on On the Identity Trail, a multidisciplinary SSHRC funded project, researching some of the ethical and policy issues surrounding privacy in the digital age. While completing his M.A. Jason also worked as a Technology Policy Analyst at the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. He has published a book chapter on privacy in the first ever Oxford University Press publication licensed under the Creative Commons license. That chapter can be freely downloaded here. He has also written on engineering ethics and the policy implications inherent in the design of technology.