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    • Is AI Grabbing African Health Data?

      The Lancet, September 4, 2026
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      Nature, August 13, 2026
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      Nature, April 26, 2026
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      The Lancet, September 4, 2026
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      Nature, August 13, 2026
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      Nature, April 26, 2026
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      The Lancet, September 4, 2026
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      Nature, April 26, 2026
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      Nature, April 26, 2026
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      The Lancet, November 21, 2025
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      Nature, September 5, 2025
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      The trillium, November 27, 2024
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      The Lancet, February 17, 2024
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      The Lancet, September 4, 2026
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      The Walrus, July 21, 2022
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      The Lancet, February 20, 2019
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      Prospect TV, June 2, 2011
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      SWR German Public Television, February 8, 2010

  • September 4, 2026 Is AI Grabbing African Health Data?

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  • August 13, 2026 Doctoring AI for Doctors: What’s Next?

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  • April 26, 2026 The Global AI Health Data Goldrush

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  • December 15, 2024 Clinical trials that will reshape medicine in 2025

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  • November 27, 2024 Indigenous Consultations: Ontario’s Superhighway Bypass

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  • October 18, 2024 Conjuring-up crime data to attack safe drug consumption sites

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  • September 27, 2024 Ditching Nature: Ontario’s Superhighway Secrets

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  • May 17, 2024 The Lancet: Canada’s Family Physician Shortage

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  • May 7, 2024 The future of brain-computer interfaces

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  • March 12, 2024 Pocketing medical AI: Nature Medicine March 12 2024

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  • December 7, 2023 STAT Dec 7 2023 – AI and reproductive freedom: The big tech threat

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PAUL C. WEBSTER


Recent Publications

EnvironmentNuclear PowerScience

No Can Do?

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
January 1, 2006

Six decades and tens of billions of dollars later, it’s make or break time for the Canadian nuclear program.

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SOLUTIONS JOURNALISM How long must we wait?

The Globe and Mail
December 10, 2005

  How long should wait times be for most medical procedures? The answers are surprisingly elusive. In this election campaign, wait times for surgery and other medical treatments are once …

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Environment

Canada Resists Banning Flame Retardant

Canadian Medical Association Journal
November 8, 2005
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Access to Affordable MedicinesDiseases of NeglectEnvironmentGlobal HealthHealthcare Politics

Soap and water cure declared

National Post
September 23, 2005

Developing world: More handwashing would reduce diarrhea-related deaths, doctor says NEW DELHI – Dr. Shambhu Nath sees the infectious diseases behind a million deaths in India annually rather differently from …

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Canadian Science PolicyEnvironment

The Walrus Magazine: A climate change data visualization

The Walrus
September 1, 2005
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BusinessCanadian Science PolicyEnvironmentNuclear Power

Science Magazine: Ontario to mothball two nuclear reactors

Science Magazine
August 25, 2005
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PAUL C. WEBSTER

Paul Webster is a freelance writer and documentary film director based in Argentina and Canada.

He has reported from more than 30 countries across Africa, Asia, the Americas and Eurasia.

Paul's work in film has appeared on the Arte, BBC, CBC, Deutsche Welle, Discovery, National Geographic, Slice, SWR and Vision Television networks.

Among the awards for Paul’s writing listed below, he has also won four national magazine awards.

At the University of Toronto, Paul teaches Canada’s only course in freelance science, medicine and public health writing. To enrol, or for more information, click here.

Awards

Corporate Canada’s Indigenous Agonies – SABEW 2020 Business Awards Honourable Mention

Report on Business Magazine, February 22, 2019
AwardsBusinessDiseases of NeglectEnvironmentIndigenous Business RightsIndigenous HealthInternational Development

“Big Pharma vs Everyone”: Winner — 2017 Sanofi Pasteur Medal for Excellence in Health Research Journalism

Report on Business Magazine, August 17, 2017
Access to Affordable MedicinesAwardsDrug PoliticsGeriatric HealthHealthcare Politics

Untreated prison hepatitis: Winner — 2016 Michener-Deacon Investigative Journalism Fellowship

Canadian Medical Association Journal, June 14, 2016
Access to Affordable MedicinesAwardsDiseases of NeglectDrug PoliticsEpidemics & PandemicsHealthcare in PrisonsHealthcare PoliticsHepatitis NeglectIndigenous Health

Adverse Reactions — 2014 Western Magazine Award Winner

September 26, 2014
Awards

Adverse Reactions: Winner – 2014 Sanofi Pasteur Medal of Excellence in Health Research Journalism

May 22, 2014
Access to Affordable MedicinesAddiction, Depression, Psychosis, SchizophreniaAwardsCanadian Science PolicyDiseases of NeglectDrug PoliticsHealthcare PoliticsMedically-Induced Opioid AddictionScience

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