Scientist, Entrepreneur, Advocate, Author
For over thirty years, Janice Parente has been a leading advocate for the rights, safety, and welfare of research participants, working to establish and advance human research accreditation in Canada.
Her debut book Ethics on Trial - Protecting Humans in Canada’s Broken Research System will be available in September 2025 from Dundurn Press.
Janice holds a biochemistry degree from McMaster University and a Ph.D. in medicine (molecular pharmacology) from the University of Alberta.
Janice lives in the peace and tranquility of the Quebec Laurentians.
Ethics on Trial
Protecting Humans in Canada’s Broken Research System
Exposing the human consequences of Canada’s broken research system.
The governance framework for human research in Canada is dangerously flawed and has the potential to lead to harm and suffering.
Canadian researchers and research companies have been allowed to flirt with informed consent, “forum shop” for less restrictive ethical oversight, and violate the rights, safety, and welfare of fellow Canadians — including those in situations of vulnerability — under the watchful eye of a federal government unwilling to fix the system.
In Ethics on Trial - Protecting Humans in Canada’s Broken Research System (Dundurn Press, 2025), Janice Parente, who has led the fight for oversight and accountability of human research in Canada for three decades, shows readers the devastating consequences of the current flawed approach. She proposes a simple solution that embraces a good and ethical system of governance — a system that Canadians should insist on and Canada’s lawmakers and research funders should adopt.
Ethics on Trial will be available on September 2, 2025. Pre-order now from: