Timothy Caulfield

Timothy Allen Caulfield is a Canadian health lawyer based in Edmonton, Alberta.

Caulfield graduated from the University of Alberta with a Bachelor of Science in 1987, then completed a law degree in 1990. He finished his thesis in 1993 at Dalhousie University.

Caulfield has received honorary degrees from Simon Fraser University and the University of Calgary.

From 1988-1990, Caulfield worked as a legal researcher at the University of Alberta's Health Law Institute.¹⁾ He then moved to work at law firm Bryan & Company as a “student-at-law”, and then lawyer, until 1992. He was admitted to the Law Society of Alberta in 1991.

In 1996, Caulfield was made an Assistant Professor in U of A's Faculty of Law, then added a position as Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry in 1999. In 2004, he became a Professor in the Faculty of Law and at the School of Public Health, a position he holds to this day. He is Research Director of the Health Law Institute.^{2) 3)} He became a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy in 2002, and then Tier I in 2009 (renewed in 2016).^{4) 5)}

In 2007 and 2008, Caulfield was Director of Research for the Commission of Inquiry on Hormone Receptor Testing on behalf of the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Caulfield has completed several visiting scholarships:⁶⁾

• 2011: Visiting Scholar at University of Ediburgh's Scottish Research Centre for IP and Technology Law
• 2012: Erasmus Mundus Visiting Scholar at the University of Leuven
• 2014: Visiting Professor at the University of Basel, Switzerland
• 2005: Visiting Professor at the University of Houston Health Law and Policy Institute
• 2000: Visiting Scholar at The Hastings Center in Garrison, New York
• 1997: Visiting Fellow at Stanford University's Program in Genomics, Ethics, and Society
• 1997: Visiting Scholar at Stanford University Law

In 2016, Caulfield began working with Peacock Alley Entertainment as co-producer and host of the television show, “A User’s Guide to Cheating Death”.

Caulfield is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation.⁷⁾ He sits on the Ethics Committee for the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).⁸⁾

Caulfield has appeared in Reuters, The Guardian, Time, Newsweek, USA Today, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Der Spiegel, The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Slate Magazine, Maclean’s, The National Post, The Globe and Mail, the Daily Beast, the Discovery Channel, CTV, CBC and The Current.

Through his publisher, Penguin Random House, Caulfield works with a speaker's bureau service called Speakers' Spotlight. Some of his clients include:

Caulfield has published scientific papers on the topics of misinformation and disinformation (particularly in the context of COVID-19), stem cell research, science communication, the microbiome, and alternative medicine, among others.

Caulfield receives research funding from:⁹⁾

• Alberta Innovates
• AllerGen
• Canadian Blood Services
• Canadian Institutes of Health Research
• Genome Canada
• Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
• Public Health Agency of Canada
• Stem Cell Network
• World Health Organization

Caulfield has received awards and recognition from a variety of institutions including the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research, Alberta Venture Magazine, the Alberta Writers' Guild, Canadian Science Writers Association, Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, Confederation of Alberta Faculty Associations (CAFA), Mason Institute for Medicine, Life Sciences and the Law, Optimyz Magazine, Royal Canadian Institute for Science, Stem Cell Network and the University of Alberta Alumni Association.