Veronique Fraser is an emergency room nurse working in Montreal and an instructor in the faculty of nursing at McGill University. She is currently pursuing graduate studies in the Biomedical Ethics Unit at McGill under the supervision of Dr. Matthew Hunt. Her two primary research interests include: examining the systemic and clinical ethical issues arising in humanitarian aid contexts in low resource settings, as well as exploring the normative and clinical issues in pain management and global health. She is currently receiving a stipend from the Montreal Health Equity Research Consortium (MHERC).