G. Owen Schaefer

G. Owen Schaefer

Assistant Professor

medgos@nus.edu.sg
6516 2056

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Dr. G. Owen Schaefer was appointed Assistant Professor at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics in 2020. He is currently Director of the Phase II Health ethics, Law and Professionalism (HeLP) curriculum. Owen’s research interests cover ethical issues raised by the development of novel biotechnologies.

Before beginning his graduate work, Owen spent two years at the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health in the US as a pre-doctoral fellow.  There, he received training in research ethics, was involved in the department’s ethics consultation service, and published several academic articles.  He then went on to read for BPhil and DPhil degrees in philosophy at Oxford, writing a dissertation on moral enhancement.  Immediately prior to joining the CBmE, he spent a year as a post-doc at the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics researching the implications of various novel biotechnologies. 

Owen joined CBmE in August 2015 under the MOH-funded initiative, Clinical Ethics Network + Research Ethics Support (CENTRES). In January 2018 he switched roles to be a Research Assistant Professor under the Science, Health And Policy-Relevant Ethics in Singapore (SHAPES) initiative at CBmE, funded by a grant from the NMRC, before taking up his present role as Assistant Professor in July 2020.

Owen’s CV can be viewed here.