Academic Staff
Professor Warwick Anderson, Deputy Director
Professorial Research Fellow, Department of History and VELiM
As an historian of biology, medicine and public health, focusing on Australasia, the Pacific, Southeast Asia and the United States, Dr. Anderson is especially interested in ideas about race, human difference, and citizenship in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Occasionally he writes programmatically on postcolonial science studies and, more generally, on science and globalization.
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T: +61 2 9036 3414
Mr Hudson Birden
Hudson Birden is Senior Lecturer in Public Health and Clinical Leadership with the North Coast Medical Education Collaboration. He holds an MPH from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, and has submitted his thesis in completion of a PhD through the Sydney Medical School.
His research interests include medical education, particularly through long term intensive clinical placements, infectious diseases epidemiology, and the influence of infectious diseases on human history.
He is an active member of the Sydney Insititute for Emerging Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity , and teaches in the Sydney School of Public Health MPH program.
He also holds an academic appointment at the University of Hartford (CT, USA), where he teaches epidemiology and public health law and ethics in the postgraduate public health nursing program.
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T: +61 2 6620 7603
Dr Stacy Carter
PhD, MPH(Hons), BAppSci
Stacy is a qualitative methodologist with expertise in grounded theory and a keen interest in the relationship between theory and practice in social science research. I'm writing a book about the latter topic for Sage (London). My substantive work is about the ethics of public health. My current interests include population-level obesity interventions, health promotion, how we manage our health in everyday life, and cancer screening. I use my empirical research on these topics to inform ethical reflection about public health action.
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T: + 61 2 9036 3407
Dr Christopher Degeling
BVSc. Grad Dip Sci. PhD. University of Sydney
Chris Degeling is interested in human-animal relations and the history and philosophy of biomedicine. He has conducted research on comparative medicine, animal modelling and the history of knowledge translation between orthopaedic surgery and veterinary practice. Chris is a Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons and a practicing veterinarian.
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T: +61 2 9036 6586
Honorary Associate Professor Jill Gordon
Jill Gordon is Honorary Associate Professor in the School of Public Health and in VELiM. Her research interests include the Philosophy of Medicine, the Neurosciences and Mental Health, and the Medical Humanities.
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T: +61 2 9036 3412
M: +61 422 212 987
Dr Claire Hooker
Co-ordinator and Senior Lecturer in Medical Humanities (on leave during 2012).
Claire's wide-ranging research interests include the following: the Medical Humanities, social responses to health risks, perceptions and responses to epidemics, risk of cancer, qualitative health research, the history of health and medicine, and public health ethics.
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Dr Christopher Jordens
Senior Lecturer in Bioethics
Clinical Research Fellow
Chris's research interests span bioethics, sociology of health and illness, and the philosophy of medicine and public health. He has been involved in studies relating to clinical ethics; media reporting of health issues; umbilical cord blood banking; saviour siblings; direct-to-consumer advertising; consent; religion, and HIV prevention research. His research in health and illness focuses on the experience of people diagnosed with cancer, and includes studies relating to colorectal cancer, haematological malignancies, ovarian cancer, cancer in adolescents and young adults, and communication and trust between health experts and lay people. Chris's philosophical interests inform all of his research.
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T: +61 2 9036 3406
M: +61 434 070 788
Associate Professor Ian Kerridge, Director
Associate Professor in Bioethics
Staff Haematologist/ Bone Marrow Transplant Physician Westmead Hospital
Ian's research focuses on the philosophical, moral and socio-cultural concepts and issues that underpin health, health policy and biomedicine and explores such topics as public health, stem cells, end-of-life care, the experience of illness and survival, synthetic genomics, organ transplantation, cord blood and tissue donation, research, drug policy and the pharmaceutical industry.
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T: +61 2 9036 3405
M: +61 408 115 919
Emeritus Professor Miles Little, Founder
Emeritus Professor Little's interests include Medical Sociology and Biomedical Ethics.
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T: +61 2 9036 3405
Professor Paul Macneill
Centre for Biomedical Ethics, University of Singapore
Contact through VELiM: +61 2 9036 3405
Dr Julie Mooney-Somers
Senior Lecturer in Qualitative Health Research
Julie's research interests cover the intersection of identity, sexuality and health, with a particular focus on young people. She specialises in qualitative, participatory and creative methods. Current research projects include the experience of growing up with cancer (creative and qualitative methods), same-sex attracted young women‘s perceptions of risk and vulnerability to sexually transmitted infections, and HIV risk in young female sex workers in Cambodia. Julie coordinates the Sydney Women and Sexual Health (SWASH) survey with ACON.
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Dr Ainsley Newson
Senior Lecturer in Bioethics
Ainsley works in the area of theoretical bioethics. Her research interests include ethical aspects of clinical and reproductive decision-making in genetics (especially prenatal diagnosis and family communication), genetics and public health, mechanisms of clinical ethics support and ethical issues in emerging technologies such as synthetic biology. She has degree qualifications in science, law and bioethics and adopts an interdisciplinary, practically-oriented approach to her work. Ainsley combines her research with teaching, including leading the Sydney Bioethics Program. Ainsley is also active in public engagement and media work on bioethics-related issues.
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Clinical Associate Professor Michael Robertson
MBBS(Hons) PhD FRANZCP
Michael Robertson is a Clinical Associate Professor in psychiatric ethics and a Senior Staff Specialist in Psychiatry at the Concord Centre for Mental Health. His clinical work has focused upon psychological trauma and chronic, disabling mental illness. His research activity has examined areas including empirical ethics in mental health care, involuntary psychiatric treatment, meta-ethical aspects of the social and professional context of psychiatry, mental health in popular culture, human rights abuses by psychiatrists in the Third Reich and social justice in relation to mental health. He is the coordinator of BETH 5205 (Ethics and Mental Health) Unit of Study in the Sydney Bioethics Program and teaches in the Sydney Medical Program and the Medical Humanities Unit.
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