World-renowned Canadian doctor says NYU cancelled her talk for being ‘anti-government’
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Dr. Joanne Liu, a world-renowned pediatric physician from Montreal, says NYU abruptly cancelled a scheduled talk. Liu says fear of political reprisals prompted the cancellation.
A world-renowned Canadian doctor says her lecture at New York University (NYU) was cancelled for being ‘anti-government.’
Dr. Joanne Liu, an associate professor at McGill and Université de Montréal and a pediatric emergency medicine physician who formerly served as the head of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), told Global News she was left stunned after her scheduled presentation at NYU was abruptly cancelled last week.
She said her lecture was going to discuss humanitarian aid in a time of crises as well as the challenges aid workers have faced in Gaza and other war zones.
Her presentation was also going to address the recent cuts to foreign aid, notably USAID, by President Trump‘s administration.
Liu’s presentation was set to go ahead on March 19. The night before, once she had already arrived in New York, Liu was told by the school’s vice-chair of the education department that it had been cancelled.
She said the vice-chair voiced concerns about some of her slides that cited aid worker databases that showed the number of humanitarian casualties in 2024 in Gaza, as well as the recent massive cuts to USAID, a civilian foreign aid and development assistance agency. She was told both topics could respectively risk being perceived as antisemitic and anti-government, Liu said.
She offered to make adjustments, but NYU elected to cancel the event altogether.
Global News reached out to NYU for comment and has not heard back.
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