Dr. Ria SINHA
Ria is a Lecturer in the Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit at the University of Hong Kong where she coordinates History of Medicine teaching and learning. Her research and teaching at HKU is interdisciplinary and considers the complex and dynamic sociocultural, ecological, historical, technological, and medico-scientific determinants of infectious disease emergence and management. She is currently curating the Covid-19 Archive Project to document the coronavirus pandemic, and is completing a book on the History of Malaria in Hong Kong.
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Lecturer, Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit
Research Fellow, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law
The University of Hong Kong
Research Fellow, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law
The University of Hong Kong
Dr. Olivia M. Y. NGAN
Olivia has a research interest in reproductive health, public health genomics, rare diseases, and empirical bioethics. Her primary work explores ethical issues in the translational application of emerging technologies in genomic medicine and healthcare services, including reproductive technologies, prenatal screening and diagnosis, and newborn screening. She is also interested in examining how the pandemic exacerbates health issues among vulnerable populations.
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Research Assistant Professor, Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit
Research Fellow, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law
The University of Hong Kong
Research Fellow, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law
The University of Hong Kong
Dr. Zohar LEDERMAN
Zohar is an emergency medicine physician with a PhD in bioethics from the National University of Singapore and formal undergraduate training in the humanities with a focus on philosophy. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Unit of Humanities and Medical Ethics at the medical school. Whenever not hiking or running, Zohar researches several topics in bioethics including loneliness and One Health Ethics. His work has been published in the top bioethics journals including the Journal of Medical Ethics, Bioethics, and Public Health Ethics.
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Post-doctoral Fellow, Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit
Research Fellow, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law
The University of Hong Kong
Research Fellow, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law
The University of Hong Kong
Dr. Carl HILDEBRAND
Carl’s research engages questions at the intersection of ethics, moral psychology, and the history of philosophy. His current work focuses on sympathy and moral character in Kantian ethics. He also writes on the philosophy of forgiveness and recently developed a new course on the ethics of human relationships, as viewed through different scales and cross-cultural perspectives.
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Research Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Research Fellow, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law
The University of Hong Kong
Research Fellow, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law
The University of Hong Kong
Dr. Alex K. GEARIN
Alex is an Australian medical anthropologist who has researched psychedelic substance using networks and practices across the globe. He has published ethnographic research on the intercultural ethics of medical tourism, metaphor and therapeutic literacies in psychedelic medicine, and spirituality and individualism among psychedelic healing groups. His book Global Ayahuasca: Wondrous Visions and Modern Worlds (Stanford University Press, 2024) explores the psychoactive plant brew “ayahuasca” in Peru, Australia, and China. His work is featured in Current Anthropology, Social Science and Medicine, Frontiers in Pharmacology, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, and other outlets, and he is co-editor of The World Ayahuasca Diaspora: Controversies and Reinventions (Routledge, 2017).
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Assistant Professor, Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit
Research Fellow, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law
The University of Hong Kong
Research Fellow, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law
The University of Hong Kong
Professor Haochen SUN
Haochen specializes in intellectual property, technology law, and Chinese law. Currently, he is working on a book Intellectual Property, COVID-19, and the Next Pandemic: Diagnosing Problems, Developing Cures (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2023).
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Professor, Faculty of Law
Research Fellow, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law
The University of Hong Kong
Research Fellow, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law
The University of Hong Kong
Dr. Michael DUNN
Michael’s research focuses primarily on the ethical dimensions of community-based and long-term health and social care management, practice and law both in the UK and internationally. The other main area of his current work examines questions about the nature of bioethics, the value of empirical ethics research, and methodological strategies for answering bioethical questions.
Associate Professor, National University of Singapore
Visiting Faculty, LLM (Medical Ethics and Law), HKU (Academic Years 2019-20, 2020-21 & 2021-22), The University of Hong Kong ("HKU")
Visiting Lecturer, Faculty of Law, HKU
Visiting Faculty, LLM (Medical Ethics and Law), HKU (Academic Years 2019-20, 2020-21 & 2021-22), The University of Hong Kong ("HKU")
Visiting Lecturer, Faculty of Law, HKU
Professor James BADENOCH KC
James is an eminent UK Queen's Counsel who has specialized for over 35 years in clinical negligence, medical law, and professional discipline. He has appeared in a succession of major cases in the UK Supreme Court, the House of Lords, the Privy Council, the Court of Appeal, the High Court, the GMC and the GDC as well as the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal and the Hong Kong High Court.
Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Law
Visiting Faculty, LLM (Medical Ethics and Law) (Academic Years 2019-20, 2020-21 & 2021-22)
The University of Hong Kong
Visiting Faculty, LLM (Medical Ethics and Law) (Academic Years 2019-20, 2020-21 & 2021-22)
The University of Hong Kong
Dr. Chih-hsing HO
Chih-hsing (PhD, London School of Economics) is an Associate Professor/ Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of European and American Studies and the Research Center for Information Technology Innovation (joint appointment), Academia Sinica, Taiwan. She leads research and interdisciplinary collaborations on the governance of genomics and newly emerging technologies, such as biobanks, big data and artificial intelligence (AI). She has been appointed to the Taiwan Ministry of Health and Welfare’s Biobank Ethics and Governance Council and the Review Board for Biobank Accreditation. She has also been appointed as a Member at the National Health Insurance Data Access Committee, and the Consultation and review Board at the National Biobank Consortium of Taiwan. Her works appear in many renowned international journals, such as Nature Genetics, BMC Medical Ethics, Frontiers in Genetics, Computer Law & Security Review, Medical Law International, the Journal of Law, Information and Science, Asian Bioethics Review. Since 2016, she has served as review editor for the Editorial Board of ELSI in Science and Genetics- Frontiers.
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Research Fellow (present) & Research Officer (From 28 Jan 2013 to 17 April 2014), Centre for Medical Ethics and Law, The University of Hong Kong
Associate Professor/ Associate Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies & the Research Center for Information Technology Innovation (joint appointment), Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Associate Professor/ Associate Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies & the Research Center for Information Technology Innovation (joint appointment), Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Professor Eric C. IP
Eric’s research focuses on the constitutional foundations of the right to physical and mental health, the legal limits of public health emergencies, and the law and ethics of planetary health. He is academically trained in both bioethics and legal theory.
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Professor, Faculty of Law
Deputy Director, Teaching Faculty & Research Fellow, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law
The University of Hong Kong
Deputy Director, Teaching Faculty & Research Fellow, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law
The University of Hong Kong
Dr. Calvin Wai-Loon HO
Calvin's research focuses on policy and regulatory responses to the normative and social impact of novel health and biotechnologies. His research also includes medical law and ethics, health systems (particularly normative aspects of health insurance and access to healthcare) and global health.
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Law
Co-Director, Teaching Faculty & Research Fellow, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law
The University of Hong Kong
Co-Director, Teaching Faculty & Research Fellow, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law
The University of Hong Kong
Ms. Daisy CHEUNG
Daisy’s research interests are primarily in the field of mental health law and ethics. Her interests also cover issues in assisted reproduction and developments in precision medicine.
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law
Deputy Director, Teaching Faculty & Research Fellow, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law
The University of Hong Kong
Deputy Director, Teaching Faculty & Research Fellow, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law
The University of Hong Kong