Michael Montess is a Clinical Ethics Fellow with the Centre for Clinical Ethics at Unity Health Toronto and the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. He has a PhD in Philosophy from York University and his dissertation was on the social and political dimensions of the ethics of HIV prevention. He is interested in topics related to public health ethics involving pandemics, including both COVID-19 and HIV/AIDS, as well as other topics in 2SLGBTQ+ health, applied ethics, bioethics, and social and political philosophy more broadly.