Dean Regier

Dean Regier is director of the faculty of medicine’s Academy of Translational Medicine and an associate professor at the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia.

Health-data sharing across provinces is the cornerstone of the government’s new AI strategy, but will our privacy really be protected?

If Canada wants to become a global leader in health AI, it should also become a global leader in demonstrating that ‘privacy-preserving’ AI actually preserves privacy.

opinion | BY DEAN REGIER, BRET NESTOR | August 6, 2026