L: Professor Ubaka Ogbogu
R: Professor Erin Nelson
The Alberta Law Review is a student-run publication. Each year, the Alberta Law Review publishes a special issue highlighting a particular area of law. The 54th volume focused on health law and featured contributions from Professor Ubaka Ogbogu and Professor Erin Nelson. Both are members of the Health Law Institute.
Together with Professors Lorian Hardcastle (Calgary) and Colleen Flood (Ottawa), Ogbogu co-edited the special issue and also co-authored the volume's introductory article, entitled The Future Role of Health Law and Medicine: The Holy Grail of Access, Quality and Sustainability.
The article discusses the link between the future performance of our health care system and the future of health law, noting that there are three goals associated with our health care system - improved access to health care services, appropriate quality of care, and ensuring the sustainability of public medicare through cost control - that have the potential to be in conflict with each other. Law - and specifically health law - greatly affects, and can help resolve, the tension between these three goals.
The article goes on to introduce the renowned contributors to the 54th volume, including Nelson.
Nelson contributed an article to the newest volume entitled Autonomy, Equality, and Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Care. The article focuses on access to sexual and reproductive health care services for Canadian women, and considers additional barriers to access faced by Canada's First Nations, Métis and Inuit women.