Dr Angus Dawson

Dr. Angus Dawson is Professor of Bioethics at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics (CBmE). He has held previous professorial appointments at the University of Sydney in Australia (2015-2022) and the University of Birmingham in the UK (2011-2015). His main research interests are in public health ethics, research ethics, and methodology in bioethics. He was the joint founder of the journal Public Health Ethics and has been its joint Editor-in-Chief since it began in 2008. He has been editor or co-editor of six collections of original papers mainly on topics in public health ethics, including Ethics, Prevention, and Public Health (2007), Public Health Ethics: Key Concepts and Issues in Policy and Practice (2011), and Public Health Ethics: Cases Spanning the Globe (2016). The latter collection contains background material and cases from public health policy and practice with contributions from twenty-three different countries. The whole book is available for free and has been downloaded in full or in part nearly a million and a half times.

Angus has been heavily involved in ethics and policy work over the last twenty years with many different committees and organisations, including the World Health Organization, the UK’s Department of Health, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Public Health Agency of Canada, the Australian Federal Government, and Médecins Sans Frontières. He is a past President of the International Association of Bioethics and has taught and given research talks all over the world. He is the Head of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Bioethics based at CBmE.