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Professor Catherine Mills1 1Monash University In March 2022, the Australian Parliament passed legislation to allow the techniques of mitochondrial donation to be introduced into Australia. Known as Maeve’s Law, the Mitochondrial Donation Act 2022 paves the way for implementation of...

Dr David Hunter1 1University Of Adelaide In this paper I describe one strategy that I use to deal with a common engagement issue in teaching applied ethics to students who are studying to become a member of a profession. This...

Miss Mariyah Hoosenally1 1Deakin University Vaginal delivery is a natural process and the mainstream mode of delivery in Australia. Informed consent is not required for vaginal delivery, despite it posing well documented risks. There are short and long term risks...

Dr Karel Caals1 1NUS Centre For Biomedical Ethics Drawing on prior experience with the SARS outbreak, East Asian societies like China, Hong Kong and Singapore quickly introduced social distancing measures, including lockdowns. India, however, was not seriously impacted by SARS....

Mr Morgan Carpenter1 1Sydney Health Ethics, School Of Public Health, University Of Sydney Evidence from jurisdictions around Australia shows that people with intersex variations undergo or risk medical interventions, including surgeries to “normalise” sex characteristics and hormonal interventions, from time...

Dr Lisa Dive1 1University Of Technology Sydney Genomics is playing an increasingly prominent role many areas of medicine and health care. For example, genomic information can be incorporated into reproductive decision making, some jurisdictions are considering population scale genomic sequencing,...

Miss Kavisha Shah1,2 1Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre, 2Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, 3Sydney Health Law, The University of Sydney, 4Sydney Health Ethics, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, 5Haematology Department, Royal North...

Dr Cynthia Forlini1 1Deakin University Stakeholder and community engagement in bioethics are credited with the ability to provide empirical data that identify areas of contention and consensus on issues with social and regulatory implications. In turn, this data is expected...

N/A Anne Preisz1, Dr Helen Young 1Sydney Children’s Hospital Network, 2Sydney Health Ethics Rare diseases in children may be devastating and life-limiting, with few treatment options. This context is emotive and high stakes as therapy often relies on access to...

Ms Mathavi Senguttuvan1 1Centre for Biomedical Ethics (NUS) The onset of the coronavirus pandemic in 2019 brought about a slew of public health preparedness measures across the globe. As infection rates increased, the Singaporean government initially saw fit to announce...