As the membership of the Humber Research Ethics Board (HREB) shifts this semester, Jasteena Dhillon will be stepping down from the Humber Research Ethics Board (HREB) where she served for the past six years, two of those years as Chair.
Jasteena Dhillon is a faculty member in the Business School at Humber. Trained as a lawyer, Jasteena came to Humber after completing a human rights fellowship at the Carr Centre for Human Rights in the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and at Harvard Law School. Over the past 20 years, she has worked as legal counsel in the Ontario government; as a legal adviser for the United Nations; and as a human rights officer for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. She was a development expert for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and a humanitarian manager for several international NGOs, which took her to South Africa, Bosnia, Albania, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, South Sudan and Iraq.
In 2016, Jasteena was the first faculty member appointed as Chair, ensuring that the HREB was a faculty driven, peer review body. During Jasteena’s time as Chair, the HREB’s profile has risen within the Humber community. Over the past two years, the HREB has reviewed over 150 applications. Jasteena’s commitment to educating faculty and researchers on the TCPS2 guidelines and advocacy for the importance of research ethics and ethics review has been integral to the success of the HREB. She openly shared information about the HREB’s mandate, role and processes, resulting in an improved understanding of the essential nature of the committee. She played a pivotal role in best practice development and implementation and continually shared new updates from the external research community with other committee members. Additionally, Jasteena wrote and conducted an analysis on the TCPS2 guidelines on consent vs. assent, ethnicity and race, research with children, student led research, working with international participants, and on social justice research.
Jasteena’s term as Chair and as an HREB member will end on September 29, 2018.
On behalf of President Chris Whitaker, I would like to offer Jasteena our sincere gratitude for her dedication and commitment to ensuring that the HREB is a success.
Gina Antonacci
Associate Vice-President, Academic