Ubaka Ogbogu

Biography

 Ubaka Ogbogu is an Assistant Professor cross-appointed to the Faculties of Law and Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences. He teaches Torts, Law and Medicine, Pharmacy Law and Ethics and the Health Law Moot Program. Professor Ogbogu’s research interests are in health law, public health law, science and health policy studies, law, bioethics and biomedicine, legal history of public health and health care in Canada and the law of torts (with a special focus on medical malpractice and health care torts). He is particularly interested in the points of confrontation between ethics, morality, economics and law in relation to the governance of novel and controversial health care technologies. His current research work examines the history of smallpox vaccination policies in nineteenth century Canadian society.

Research Interest

 Health Law; Public Health Law; Legal History of Medicine, Science and Public Health; Science and Health Policy Studies; Law, Bioethics and Biomedicine; Medical Malpractice and Health Care Torts