Dr Michael J. Selgelid - professional profile
Director
Centre for Human Bioethics
Faculty of Arts
Monash University VIC 3800
Tel.: +61 3 9902 4847
Fax.: +61 3 9905 3279
Room: Menzies Building, W931
Email: Michael.Selgelid@monash.edu
Curriculum Vitae
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Dr Michael Selgelid is Director of the Centre for Human Bioethics. He joined the Centre as a staff member in 2011, and was a visiting PhD student in 2000. He is part of both the undergraduate and postgraduate bioethics teaching programs. Michael is also Director of a World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Bioethics at The Australian National University, where he is a Part-Time Fellow in the School of Philosophy, Research School of Social Sciences. He serves on the Ethics Review Board of, and is involved in an Ethics Consultation Project with, Médecins Sans Frontières. His research focus is public health ethics—with emphasis on ethical issues associated with biotechnology and infectious disease. He has over 100 publications in bioethics. He co-authored Ethical and Philosophical Consideration of the Dual-Use Dilemma in the Biological Sciences (Springer 2008) and co-edited Ethics and Security Aspects of Infectious Disease Control: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Ashgate 2012, in press); Emergency Ethics (Ashgate 2012, in press); Infectious Disease Ethics (Springer 2011); Health Rights (Ashgate 2010); and Ethics and Infectious Disease (Blackwell, 2006). He edits a book series in Public Health Ethics Analysis for Springer and a book series in Practical Ethics and Public Policy for ANU E Press. Michael earned a BS in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of California, San Diego.