Michael Dunn
Associate Professor
Profile
Dr Michael Dunn is an Associate Professor and the Co-Director of Education at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics (CBmE) in the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. Reflecting his varied academic background and interests, his scholarship spans healthcare ethics, medical law, socio-legal studies and health/social care services research.
RESEARCH
Michael’s current research projects focus mainly on ethical aspects of community-based, integrated and long-term care practice, policy and law – in Singapore, the UK and internationally. For the past 20 years, he has also been critically analysing the ethical and legal dimensions of decision-making within adult caregiving relationships.
Michael adopts interdisciplinary methodologies in his research, seeking to integrate philosophical, legal and qualitative social scientific methods of analysis. Taking this approach has also motivated scholarly contributions that have shaped the developing methodological field of empirical bioethics, and that have scrutinised the nature and purpose of bioethical inquiry more generally. He has written more than 100 peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters, authored or edited 5 books, and obtained over S$6m in competitive research grants.
EDUCATION
Michael is an experienced university teacher, particularly in professional education settings. In his role as Co-Director of Education at CBmE, he has strategic oversight over the direction and content of the diverse educational portfolio within the Centre. As a part of this role, Michael leads CBmE’s undergraduate programs in health ethics, law and professionalism, which are delivered over 5 years and are now responsible for educating 2,700 medical, dental, pharmacy and nursing students within NUS at any one time.
Michael contributes to postgraduate education across NUS Medicine, teaching courses in the foundations of bioethics, the ethical dimensions of ageing, and AI and health data ethics. He also leads ‘refresher’ workshops in ethical skills for local health professionals as part of CBmE’s Continuing Education and Training (CET) programmes. Finally, he has supervised 11 PhD students and has been acknowledged for the quality of his graduate supervision in university teaching awards.
SERVICE AND BACKGROUND
Michael is a member of the Agency for Integrated Care’s IRB, a trustee of the UK Clinical Ethics Network, and an Editorial Board member of 3 bioethics journals. He sits on various committees within NUS Medicine, including the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, the Associate Professorial Faculty Promotion and Tenure Committee, and the Professional Standards and Conduct Committee (PSCC) for medical students, which he also chairs.
Michael is an associate faculty member at the Ethox Centre, University of Oxford – where he worked for over a decade before joining NUS – and he has previously held visiting academic positions in Japan, Hong Kong, the USA, the Netherlands and Norway. Michael obtained his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from the University of Cambridge in the UK.
To view my complete list of publications, please view my NUS Discovery page.
My full CV is available here.