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The backgrounds of the academic staff provide a variety of perspectives in the humanities and health, which helps students to reflect on current ethical issues in medicine, biology, health care, and the broader issues of environmental ethics.

Centre staff are also responsible for teaching one of the most extensive programs in medical ethics of any medical school in the world, and also ethics courses in pharmacy, physiotherapy, oral health, and midwifery.

Academic staff

Staff are available for consultation, particularly on matters relating to their research interests.

Dr Lynley Anderson – Professor

Ethics in sports medicine, reproductive ethics, clinical bioethics, professional development, codes of ethics.

Tel +64 3 471 6132
Email lynley.anderson@otago.ac.nz

Dr Angela Ballantyne – Associate Professor

Global health policy and justice, ethical frameworks in research, genetics and ethics.

Tel +64 4 918 5090
Email angela.ballantyne@otago.ac.nz

Dr Sarah Bush – Professional Practice Fellow

Public health ethics, bioethics and health law.

Email sarah.bush@otago.ac.nz

Ms Alison Douglass – Honorary Senior Lecturer

Clinical ethics, research ethics, mental capacity, assisted reproductive technology.

Tel +64 3 477 3488
Email alison.douglass@barristerschambers.co.nz

Dr Elizabeth Fenton – Senior Lecturer

Public health ethics, global health, resource prioritization, and health policy.

Tel +64 3 471 6128
Email elizabeth.fenton@otago.ac.nz

Dr Grant Gillett – Professor Emeritus

Bioethics, neuroethics, philosophy of psychiatry, post-structuralist philosophy. Professor Gillett is not offering postgraduate supervision.

Ms Josephine Johnston – Associate Professor

Bioethics, law and policy relating to human reproduction, psychiatry, genetics, and neuroscience

Tel +64 3 471 6123
Email josephine.johnston@otago.ac.nz

Dr Mike King – Head of Department and Senior Lecturer

Animal and environmental ethics, scientific responsibility, ethics of assisted reproductive technologies.

Tel +64 3 471 6130
Email mike.king@otago.ac.nz

Dr Taryn Knox – Lecturer

Philosophy of psychiatry and medicine, mental health ethics, sports ethics.

Tel +64 3 471 6122
Email taryn.knox@otago.ac.nz

Nicola Liebergreen – Assistant Research Fellow

Sociology, animal ethics, ethics of working with children and youth, sexual harm prevention.

Tel +64 211 252 123
Email nicola.liebergreen@otago.ac.nz

Dr John McMillan – Professor

Prioritisation, reproductive ethics, the philosophy and ethics of mental health, research ethics, methods of bioethics.

Tel +64 3 471 6135
Email john.mcmillan@otago.ac.nz

Dr Tania Moerenhout – Lecturer

Ethics and philosophy of (new) medical technologies, digital health ethics, clinical ethics and the patient‑doctor relationship.

Tel +64 3 471 5388
Email tania.moerenhout@otago.ac.nz

Dr Jing-Bao Nie – Professor

Cross-cultural and international bioethics, medical ethics in China / Asia.

Tel +64 3 471 6129
Email jing-bao.nie@otago.ac.nz

Dr Geoff Noller – Research Fellow

Tel +64 3 479 4134
Email geoff.noller@otago.ac.nz

Dr Neil Pickering – Associate Professor

Philosophy and ethics of mental health, medical humanities (particularly the use of literature in ethics teaching), alternative medicine, cultural issues in bioethics, environmental ethics.

Tel +64 3 471 6126
Email neil.pickering@otago.ac.nz

Dr Cindy Towns – Honorary Senior Lecturer

Bioethics, health policy, general medicine, and geriatrics.

Email cindy.towns@huttvalleydhb.org.nz

Dr Simon Walker – Senior Lecturer

Moral philosophy, the nature of value, meaning, suffering, end of life care.

Tel +64 3 471 6124
Email simon.walker@otago.ac.nz

Dr Janine Winters – Senior Lecturer

End of life ethical issues for both adults and children, high stakes decision making for children.

Tel +64 3 471 6120
Email janine.winters@otago.ac.nz

Dr Wenna Yeo - Assistant Research Fellow

Animal ethics, animal justice, environmental justice, equity, indigenous philosophy, and multispecies justice.

Email wenna.yeo@otago.ac.nz

Support staff

Cole Beckstead – Administrator

Tel +64 3 556 6530
Email cole.beckstead@otago.ac.nz

Creating A Positive Learning Environment (CAPLE) project staff

CAPLE project

Affiliates and research students

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