Francoise Baylis

Francoise Baylis
Born	1961 (age 55–56) Montreal, Quebec
Alma mater	McGill University, University of Western Ontario
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
Institutions	University of Tennessee, University of Toronto, Dalhousie University,
Main interests	bioethics, applied ethics, health policy

Françoise Elvina Baylis, CM ONS FRSC, (born 1961) is a Canadian bioethicist whose work is at the intersection of applied ethics, health policy, and practice. The focus of her research is on issues of women's health and assisted reproductive technologies, but her research and publication record also extend to such topics as research involving humans (including human embryo research), gene editing, novel genetic technologies, public health, the role of bioethics consultants, and neuroethics. Baylis works as a public intellectual who is interested to do bioethics with an impact on health and public policy. She engages with print, radio, television, and online media and has appeared multiple times as a guest on CBC Radio and Radio-Canada. Her frequent contributions to The Mark News and other online publications illustrate a commitment to citizen engagement and participatory democracy.

Baylis' education includes a Certificate of Bilinguallism from Laurentian University (1981), Political Science degree (BA, First Class Honours) from McGill University (1983), followed by an MA (Philosophy, 1984) and PhD (Philosophy, specialization Bioethics, 1989) from the University of Western Ontario (currently known as Western University). The title of her PhD thesis is "The ethics of ex utero research on spare IVF human embryos" and was completed under the supervision of Benjamin Freedman. In the thesis she introduced (at the time) a "novel ethical distinction between and non-viable human embryos." Her concept of "non-viable embryos" as acceptable objects for research is still referenced today.

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