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Echo Endowed Chair in Women’s Health Research
Associate professor
Faculty of Health Sciences
Interdisciplinary School of Health sciences

Contact information:

Office: 613-562-5800 (2316)
Cell: 617-417-9974
E-mail: angel.foster@uottawa.ca
Website

Preferred method of contact:

E-mail

Research information:

Dr. Angel M. Foster holds a DPhil (doctorate) in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Oxford, an MD from Harvard Medical School, and an AM (master's degree) from Stanford University. She has conducted multi-methods research on women’s health in Canada, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Palestine, the Thailand/Burma border, Tunisia, and the United States. Her current research focuses on expanding access to emergency contraception, increasing access to safe, high quality, and affordable abortion services improving the reproductive health training of health service professionals, and Identifying and addressing the reproductive health needs of vulnerable populations including young/unmarried women and refugees/displaced women. She has published more than 40 articles, book chapters, and technical reports on women's health and her first book, Emergency contraception: The story of a global reproductive health technology, was published by Palgrave MacMillan in 2012 (co-edited with L.L. Wynn).

Area(s) of expertise:

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• Abortion
• Anthropology
• Ethics
• Health
• Health policy
• Health research
• International development
• International health
• Middle East
• Other
• Population health
• Women and development
• Women and health
• Women’s health

Language preference:

English and French , Arabic

Assistant professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Political Studies

Contact information:

Office: 613-562-5800 (1711)
Home: 613-730-6576
E-mail: saurette@uOttawa.ca

Preferred method of contact:

Office Telephone

Research information:

Power and ethics in politics and contemporary society, in particular, political ethics in domestic and international issues. The rhetoric of 'common sense' in politics, as well as the increased use of practices of humiliation and shame in a variety of contexts. The importance of trust in politics and other public and private sectors.

Area(s) of expertise:

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• Abortion
• Applied ethics
• Contemporary social thought
• Democracy
• Ethics in international affairs
• Ethics in international affairs
• Fetal rights
• Moral philosophy
• Political theory

Language preference:

English and French