Joanna N. Erdman

Joanna N. Erdman is an Associate Professor and the MacBain Chair in Health Law and Policy at the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. She is also a member of the school’s Health Justice Institute. Joanna has acted as an intervener before various constitutional courts and international bodies. Joanna chairs the Global Health Advisory Committee of the Public Health Program, and serves on the advisory board of the Women’s Rights Program, Open Society Foundations. She is a past chair of World Health Organization’s Department of Reproductive Health and Research Gender and Rights Advisory Panel.

She holds a JD from the University of Toronto and an LLM from Harvard Law School, and completed a fellowship at Yale Law School. Joanna’s research focuses on sexual and reproductive health law in a transnational context.