Month: September 2022

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...

Ms Vanessa Warren1 1University Of Tasmania Genomic data sharing (GDS) deals with the secondary access and use of data that is uniquely personal. GDS occupies a challenging regulatory and ethical space, frequently characterised by the twin goals of facilitating innovation...

Mrs Simone Henriksen1 1University Of The Sunshine Coast The National Quality Framework (NQF) has been implemented to improve the safety and quality of alcohol and other drug (AOD) treatment and provide a nationally consistent approach to treatment quality in Australia. ...