Chan Hui Yun
Research Fellow
Profile
Dr Chan is a law scholar with an interest in bioethics and health law. She is a Research Fellow at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics (CBmE), National University of Singapore. She has held several lectureships in universities in the UK prior to joining CBmE. Her current work focuses on the legal and ethical aspects of cross-border data transfer under the Future Health Technology research programme on trustworthy data governance. She is interested in researching the law and ethics of health technologies and the governance of health data.
Research
Hui Yun’s research interests are situated broadly within the fields of bioethics and health law, focusing on law and health technology, health governance, and the application of artificial intelligence in healthcare. She also has expertise in the law and ethics of advance directives, end-of-life care from both legal and ethical perspectives and comparative health law and ethics. Her recent publication explored the application of artificial intelligence in making future healthcare plans and the legal and ethical implications.
Hui Yun has published in the area of healthcare decision-making law and ethics, organ donation, and a monograph on advance healthcare decision-making: Advance Directives: Rethinking Regulation, Autonomy and Healthcare Decision-making. She has written about the legal and ethical aspects of Covid-19 related issues, such as the legal implications of burial restrictions to grieving families in the UK, the importance of mental wellbeing during the pandemic and the legal and ethical obligations of healthcare providers to provide healthcare workers with appropriate personal protective equipment.
Selected Publication
Chan, H.Y. Wearable Devices for Long COVID: Prospects, Challenges and Options. ABR (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41649-023-00272-3
Chan, H.Y., Toh, H.J. & Lysaght, T. Cross-jurisdictional Data Transfer in Health Research: Stakeholder Perceptions on the Role of Law. ABR (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41649-024-00283-8
Naim, N., & Chan, H. Y. (2024). Intellectual Property and Health Technological Innovations at the time of the Pandemic. Law and Development Review. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1515/ldr-2024-0009
Chan, H.Y. & A Muralidharan, ‘Care Robots for the Elderly: Legal, Ethical Considerations and Regulatory Strategies’ in N. Naim (ed) Developments in Intellectual Property Strategy: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and New Technologies (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024) pp129-156.
Chan, H. Y., Lysaght, T., Lim, X. X., Toh, H. J., & Savulescu, J. (2024). Accessing third-party research databases for criminal investigations: Enhancing legal protections and safeguarding public interests.
Medical Law International, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/09685332241256576
Chan, H. Y., & Richards, B. (2023). When will death be?: Legal considerations and regulatory safeguards in predictive modelling applications for end-of-life care. JOURNAL OF LAW AND MEDICINE, 30(3), 745–760.
Lysaght, T., Chan, H.Y., Scheibner, J. et al. An ethical code for collecting, using and transferring sensitive health data: outcomes of a modified Policy Delphi process in Singapore. BMC Med Ethics 24, 78 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12910-023-00952-
Chan, H. Y. (2021). Mental wellbeing in a pandemic: the role of solidarity and care. Public Health Ethics, 14(1), 47-58.
Chan, H. Y. (2021). Reciprocal trust as an ethical response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Asian Bioethics Review, 13(3), 335-354.
Chan, H. Y. (2021). Death, Burials and Funerals: Grieving in the Shadow of Covid-19. Series 2 Vol. 3 Amicus Curiae, 251.
Chan, H. Y. (2021). Artificial intelligence application in advance healthcare decision-making: Potentials, challenges and regulatory safeguards. In Regulating Artificial Intelligence in Industry (pp. 66-82). Routledge.
Chan, H. Y. (2021). Hospitals’ liabilities in times of pandemic: Recalibrating the legal obligation to provide personal protective equipment to healthcare workers. Liverpool Law Review, 42, 185-205.
Chan, H. Y. (2020). The underappreciated role of advance directives: how the pandemic revitalises advance care planning actions. European Journal of Health Law, 27(5), 451-475.
Chan, H. Y. (2020). Remapping the organ donation ethical climate: a care ethics consideration. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 23, 295-308.
Chan, H. Y. (2019). Regulating advance decision-making: potential and challenges for Malaysia. Asian bioethics review, 11(1), 111-122.
Chan, H. Y. (2018). Advance Directives: Rethinking Regulation, Autonomy & Healthcare Decision-Making. Springer International Publishing.
