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Sydney Health Ethics (previously Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine (VELiM)) is a research and teaching centre within the School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney. Since our establishment in 1995, we have become one of the largest bioethics centres in Australia and internationally. Our team includes academics, research fellows and research students working on a wide range of ethical issues. These include public health ethics, clinical ethics, research ethics, animal ethics, the ethics of biotechnology including genetic technology and genomics, and the ethics of drug policy and development. Sydney Health Ethics also has a long history of conducting empirical social science research, often informed by and informing ethical questions. We have a thriving program of empirical and theoretical research funded by the NHMRC, ARC and other sources. Sydney Health Ethics website
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Beyond duty: Medical “heroes” and the Covid-19 pandemic
Published 2020When infectious disease outbreaks strike, health facilities acquire labels such as “war zones” and “battlefields” and healthcare professionals become “heroes” on the “front line.” But unlike soldiers, healthcare professionals ...Open AccessArticle -
Biobank networking and globalisation: perspectives and practices of Australian biobanks.
Published 2020Objective This study examined the practices and attitudes of Australian biobanks regarding access to samples and data, as well as local and global networking with other biobanks. Methods This was a mixed-methods study, ...Open AccessArticle -
Public trust and global biobank networks
Published 2020Biobanks provide an important foundation for genomic and personalised medicine. In order to enhance their scientific power and scope, they are increasingly becoming part of national or international networks. Public trust ...Open AccessArticle -
Conflicts of interest: opening up new territories.
Published 2020Over the last few decades, awareness of the importance of managing conflicts of interest among health-related policymaking, professional, research, and clinical institutions has greatly increased. The visibility of the ...EmbargoedArticle -
Promoting ethics across the healthcare sector: what can codes achieve?
Published 2020Over the course of the twentieth century, numerous national and international ethics “codes” have been developed. While such codes serve important substantive and symbolic functions, they can also pose challenges. In this ...EmbargoedArticle