Juergen Dankwort, Ph.D.
Dr. Juergen Dankwort recieved his undergraduate and master's degrees at McGill University, applying his community organizing skills in developing support for strategic anti-poverty, child protection, and family violence initiatives, while additionally working as a therapist within the Quebec social affairs network.
He obtained his doctoral degree from the Université de Montréal in social work in 1994. He served on the Senate-appointed Canadian panel on Violence Against Women, developed effective curricula for offender programs, conducted program evaluations, and published extensively on those topics in peer-reviewed journals in Canada and the U.S. He went on to teach social policy, clinical social work, sociology, media, and social movements courses as a permanent faculty member at the University of Houston (TX) at the Graduate School of Social Work, the sociology department at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in British Columbia, and on contracts with Simon Fraser University and several private univerisities in Vancouver, until his retirement.
Juergen identifies as a researcher and human rights activist, continuing his work in advancing a "right-to-die" agenda, serving on the Board of the British Columbia Humanist Association, working with the Program Committee for the B.C. Sunshine Coast Elder College, serving as Director of the Farewell Foundation for the Right to Die, British Columbia, and volunteering to coordinate the Canadian chapter for Exit International. He is presently continuing research on assisted dying regimes evolving worldwide with publications in both the Canadian Journal of Bioethics and the Canadian Journal of Public Health.