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    • Coercive care: Canada’s addiction treatment scandal

      The Lancet, October 9, 2026
    • Is AI Grabbing African Health Data?

      The Lancet, September 4, 2026
    • Doctoring AI for Doctors: What’s Next?

      Nature, August 13, 2026
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    • Coercive care: Canada’s addiction treatment scandal

      The Lancet, October 9, 2026
    • Is AI Grabbing African Health Data?

      The Lancet, September 4, 2026
    • Doctoring AI for Doctors: What’s Next?

      Nature, August 13, 2026
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    • Is AI Grabbing African Health Data?

      The Lancet, September 4, 2026
    • Doctoring AI for Doctors: What’s Next?

      Nature, August 13, 2026
    • The Global AI Health Data Goldrush

      Nature, April 26, 2026
  • Drugs
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    • Addiction, Depression, Psychosis, Schizophrenia
    • Medically-Induced Opioid Addiction
    • Coercive care: Canada’s addiction treatment scandal

      The Lancet, October 9, 2026
    • The Global AI Health Data Goldrush

      Nature, April 26, 2026
    • Canadian vaccination gaps spur measles

      The Lancet, November 21, 2025
  • Environment
    • Indigenous Consultations: Ontario’s Superhighway Bypass

      The trillium, November 27, 2024
    • Ditching Nature: Ontario’s Superhighway Secrets

      The trillium, September 27, 2024
    • Nonstick chemicals come unstuck: The Lancet Feb 17 2024

      The Lancet, February 17, 2024
  • International Aid
    • Is AI Grabbing African Health Data?

      The Lancet, September 4, 2026
    • Clinical trials that will shape 2024: Nature Medicine Dec 7 2023

      Nature, December 7, 2023
    • Canada’s retreat from nuclear disarmament

      The Walrus, July 21, 2022
  • Culture
    • Rural Canada’s digital deficit

      In the Hills, September 15, 2020
    • Globe & Mail: Indigenous nationalism, resurgent & insurgent

      The Globe and Mail, July 6, 2019
    • “Mindful eating”: Canada’s new food guide

      The Lancet, February 20, 2019
  • Film
    • Les peuples des volcans: Mexique et Guatemala

      Prospect TV, June 2, 2011
    • Les peuples des Volcans — Kamtchatka, Hawaii et Alaska

      Prospect TV, June 1, 2011
    • Claiming Indigenous Lands: The 2010 Olympic Countdown

      SWR German Public Television, February 8, 2010

  • October 9, 2026 Coercive care: Canada’s addiction treatment scandal

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  • 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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  • April 25, 2026 Europe Reboots Medical AI

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  • November 21, 2025 Canadian vaccination gaps spur measles

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  • September 5, 2025 Digital Twins: Clinical trials transformed

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  • August 16, 2025 Canada’s “status quo” tobacco settlement

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  • May 9, 2025 Trump dumps AI regulations

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  • April 15, 2025 Can AI brain implants make us smarter?

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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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  • August 10, 2024 Olympic Sugardaddies Called to Account

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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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  • February 24, 2024 Canada’s Pharmacare Showdown: The Lancet Feb 24 2024

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  • February 17, 2024 Nonstick chemicals come unstuck: The Lancet Feb 17 2024

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PAUL C. WEBSTER


Recent Publications

Healthcare in RussiaScience

Science Magazine: Russian biology institute in peril

Science Magazine
January 31, 2003
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EnvironmentHealthcare in RussiaInternational DevelopmentScience

Science Magazine: Putin Aims to turn Science Cities into Silicon Steppes

Science Magazine
January 24, 2003
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Global Fund Approves Grants to Fight TB and AIDS in Russia

The Lancet
November 22, 2002
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EnvironmentGlobal HealthHealthcare in RussiaHealthcare PoliticsInternational DevelopmentNuclear PowerScience

Science Magazine: UN Faces Tough Sell on Chornobyl Research

Science Magazine
October 25, 2002
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BusinessEnvironmentNuclear PowerScienceWeapons Industry

Minatom: The Grab for Trash

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
October 1, 2002

U.S.-origin spent nuclear fuel – otherwise known as nuclear waste – has been piling up around the world waiting for a country willing to take it. Russian nuclear agency MINATOM …

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Science Magazine: The bid to save Kamchatka’s wildlife

September 13, 2002
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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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The Global AI Health Data Goldrush

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