Career snapshot
Bashir has been the leader of Ethics Services since it was founded at Fraser Health in 2005. Diversity Services was integrated with Ethics Services in 2010, before becoming Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in 2023. Prior to Fraser Health, Bashir served as an ethics leader at Providence Health Care and at Alberta's Provincial Health Ethics Network. He has been and remains involved with a wide range of civil society and government boards and committees, including serving as the President of the Canadian Bioethics Society from 2022 to 2024.
Formal education
Bashir earned a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from McGill University. He has an MA in Philosophy with a specialty in bioethics from the University of British Columbia and Ph.D. in Public Health Sciences from the University of Alberta, where his interdisciplinary focus was on bioethics, political theory and public health. The question that drives Bashir's academic and professional interest is, What does it mean to support people to live well and with integrity in communities that feature diversity and inequality?