Dr Siun Gallagher
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Dr Siun Gallagher

Research Fellow
Sydney School of Public Health
Faculty of Medicine and Health
Dr Siun Gallagher

Dr Siun Gallagher is a postdoctoral researcher at Sydney Health Ethics (School of Public Health). Her research interests focus on the impact of rising clinical and health system complexity on medical practice, which she has examined empirically and conceptually in different contexts, including health care resource allocation and assisted reproductive technology.

Siun has a bachelor's degree in medicine from Trinity College, Dublin, a master's degree in public health from the University of Sydney, and a PhD in medicine from the University of Sydney.

Siun's research interests are in:

  • ethics and professionalism in policy-making and health care resource allocation
  • ethics and professionalism in commercialised medicine
  • physician advocacy
  • ethics in health technology assessment

Siun teaches in the Master of Bioethics program.

gEnomics4newborns: integrating Ethics and Equity with Effectiveness and Economics for genomic newborn screening

Publications

Book Chapters

  • Gallagher, S. (2019). Medical professionals as expert advisors in macroallocation: Problems of dual agency and conflict of interest. In Kathleen Montgomery, Wendy Lipworth (Eds.), Medical Professionals: Conflicts and Quandaries in Medical Practice, (pp. 88-103). New York: Routledge. [More Information]

Journals

  • Gallagher, S., Germain, S. (2024). Book review: Medical Doctors in Health Reforms: A Comparative Study of England and Canada. Medical Law International. [More Information]
  • Gallagher, S., Attinger, S., Sassano, A., Sutton, E., Kerridge, I., Newson, A., Farsides, B., Hammarberg, K., Hart, R., Jackson, E., et al (2024). Medicine in the marketplace: clinician and patient views on commercial influences on assisted reproductive technologies. Reproductive BioMedicine Online, 48(6), 103850. [More Information]
  • Attinger, S., Kerridge, I., Stewart, C., Karpin, I., Gallagher, S., Norman, R., Lipworth, W. (2024). Money matters: a critique of ‘informed financial consent’. Medical Law Review. [More Information]

2024

  • Gallagher, S., Germain, S. (2024). Book review: Medical Doctors in Health Reforms: A Comparative Study of England and Canada. Medical Law International. [More Information]
  • Gallagher, S., Attinger, S., Sassano, A., Sutton, E., Kerridge, I., Newson, A., Farsides, B., Hammarberg, K., Hart, R., Jackson, E., et al (2024). Medicine in the marketplace: clinician and patient views on commercial influences on assisted reproductive technologies. Reproductive BioMedicine Online, 48(6), 103850. [More Information]
  • Attinger, S., Kerridge, I., Stewart, C., Karpin, I., Gallagher, S., Norman, R., Lipworth, W. (2024). Money matters: a critique of ‘informed financial consent’. Medical Law Review. [More Information]

2023

  • Stanbury, C., Lipworth, W., Gallagher, S., Norman, R., Newson, A. (2023). "What moral weight should patient-led demand have in clinical decisions about assisted reproductive technologies?". Bioethics. [More Information]

2022

  • Gallagher, S. (2022). Response—An Extreme Ordeal: Writing Emotion in Qualitative Research. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 19(1), 101-108. [More Information]

2021

  • Gallagher, S., Little, J., Hooker, L. (2021). Testimonial injustice: discounting women's voices in health care priority setting. Journal of Medical Ethics, 47(11), 744-747. [More Information]

2019

  • Gallagher, S., Little, J., Hooker, L. (2019). Evidence, Emotion and Eminence: A Qualitative and Evaluative Analysis of Doctors' Skills in Macroallocation. Health Care Analysis, 27(2), 93-109. [More Information]
  • Gallagher, S. (2019). Medical professionals as expert advisors in macroallocation: Problems of dual agency and conflict of interest. In Kathleen Montgomery, Wendy Lipworth (Eds.), Medical Professionals: Conflicts and Quandaries in Medical Practice, (pp. 88-103). New York: Routledge. [More Information]
  • Gallagher, S., Little, J. (2019). Procedural justice and the individual participant in priority setting: Doctors' experiences. Social Science & Medicine, 228, 75-84. [More Information]

2018

  • Gallagher, S., Little, M., Hooker, L. (2018). The values and ethical commitments of doctors engaging in macroallocation: a qualitative and evaluative analysis. BMC Medical Ethics, 19(1), 1-13. [More Information]

2017

  • Gallagher, S., Little, J. (2017). Doctors on Values and Advocacy: A Qualitative and Evaluative Study. Health Care Analysis, 25(4), 370-385. [More Information]