Kathleen (Katie) Hammond

Areas of Expertise

• Assisted reproduction
• Genetic testing
• Privacy law
• Health law
• Constitutional Law

Dr. Kathleen (Katie) Hammond is an Associate Professor in the Lincoln Alexander School of Law at Toronto Metropolitan University where she directs the Health Law and Innovation Research Group. Dr. Hammond’s research spans across health law and policy, health equity, constitutional law, privacy law, and gender and families, and she specializes in reproduction, assisted reproductive technologies and genetic testing technologies. Her research is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Canadian Foundation of Legal Research, among others. She has published extensively, including articles in McGill Journal of Law and Health, Canadian Journal of Law and Society, and Journal of Public Health Policy, and has won numerous awards for her research and teaching, including the Dean’s Research Award, the Provost’s Award for Teaching Excellence, and the Lincoln Alexander Law Student Society Professor of the Year (2022 & 2025). She is actively involved in policy development. She consulted on the WHO’s first ever guidelines on infertility, regularly provides policy input to Health Canada, collaborates with Canadian Blood Services, and sits on the Women’s College Hospital Research Ethics Board. She has a PhD and MPhil from the University of Cambridge (where she was a Gates and Commonwealth scholar), and a JD/BCL from McGill University Law School. Prior to joining LASL, she was a postdoctoral fellow with the Research Group on Health and Law at McGill University’s Faculty of Law and a visiting fellow with the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law and Policy at Harvard University’s Faculty of Law.