Kathleen (Katie) Hammond (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the Lincoln Alexander School of Law at Toronto Metropolitan University where she is founder and director of the Health Law and Innovation Group.
Prior to joining the Lincoln Alexander School of Law, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Research Group on Health and Law at McGill University’s Faculty of Law and a visiting scholar with the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law and Policy at Harvard Law School. She holds a JD and BCL from McGill University. She completed an MPhil in Multi-Disciplinary Gender Studies and PhD in Legal Sociology at the University of Cambridge where she was a Gates Cambridge scholar and a Commonwealth scholar.
Her research spans across health law and policy, science and technology law, constitutional law, and gender and families. In particular, she specializes in the areas of reproduction and abortion, assisted reproductive technologies (including egg, sperm and embryo donation, surrogacy and egg freezing), health equity, and new genetic testing technologies.
She has held a number of fellowships, including with the Fondation Brocher in Geneva, Switzerland, the Embryo Project at the Center for Biology and Society at Arizona State University, and with the Marine Biological History Project in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. She has been involved with policy development on reproduction for organizations such as the World Health Organization, where she was involved with organizing, and participated in the consultation for the WHO’s first ever glossary and guidelines on infertility.
Her current projects are funded by grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She has published widely in peer-reviewed journals including Anthropology & Medicine, the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, McGill Journal of Law and Health, the Journal of Public Health Policy, the Canadian Journal of Law and Society, and Dalhousie Law Journal.