Dr. Maxwell Smith is a bioethicist, Associate Professor, and CIHR Applied Public Health Chair in Ethics and Health Emergencies in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada.

Professor Smith also serves as an Associate Director of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy and is cross-appointed to the Department of Philosophy, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Schulich Interfaculty Program in Public Health, and is a faculty member of the Centre for Research on Health Equity and Social Inclusion and Institute for Earth and Space Exploration.

His research is primarily in the area of public health ethics, with a focus on infectious disease ethics and the ethical demands that health equity and social justice place on governments and institutions to protect and promote the public’s health.