Phoebe Friesen

Phoebe Friesen is an Assistant Professor at McGill University, jointly appointed in the Department of Equity, Ethics and Policy and the Department of Social Studies of Medicine. She holds an Associate membership in the Departments of Philosophy and Psychiatry. With a PhD in philosophy from the CUNY Graduate Center and an MA from Western University, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ethox Centre, University of Oxford (2018–2019).

• Fields: Medical ethics, psychiatry, philosophy of science, research ethics
• Current research: Placebo effect challenges, psychedelics in psychiatry, race disparities in pain research
• Grants: SSHRC, FRQ-S

Teaching: Graduate Bioethical Theory, 4th-year medical elective on Placebo Effect, Medical Ethics & Health Law components.

Community Engagement: Leads network for service user/survivor research capacities, advocates for consent in educational pelvic exams (21 US laws passed since 2021).