Michael Dunn
Associate Professor
Profile
I am an Associate Professor and the Co-Director of Education at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics (CBmE) in the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. I work across bioethics, health law, socio-legal studies and health/social care services research.
RESEARCH
My current research interests focus mainly on ethical aspects of community-based, integrated, age-friendly, and long-term care practice, policy and law – in Singapore, the UK and internationally. For the past 20 years, I have also been critically analysing the ethical and legal dimensions of decision-making within adult caregiving relationships.
In my research, I pursue an interdisciplinary approach that integrates philosophical, legal and qualitative social scientific analysis. Adopting this approach has 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. I have written more than 100 peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters, authored or edited 6 books, and obtained over S$6m in competitive research grants.
EDUCATION
I am an experienced university teacher, particularly in professional education settings. As Director of Undergraduate Education, I lead CBmE’s undergraduate programs in health ethics, law and professionalism, which are delivered over 5 years and are now responsible for educating 2,500 medical, dental, pharmacy and nursing students within NUS at any one time.
Within CBmE, I contribute to postgraduate education, teaching courses in the theory and methodology of bioethics, the ethics of AI and health data, and the ethical dimensions of ageing. I also lead continuing education ‘refresher’ training in ethical skills for local health professionals. Finally, I have supervised 10 PhD students and have been acknowledged for the quality of my graduate supervision in university teaching awards.
SERVICE AND BACKGROUND
I am a member of the Agency of Integrated Care’s IRB, a trustee of the UK Clinical Ethics Network, and I am an editorial board member of 3 bioethics journals. I also sit 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 I also chair.
I am an associate faculty member at the Ethox Centre, University of Oxford – where I worked for over a decade before joining NUS – and I have previously held visiting academic positions in Japan, Hong Kong, the USA, the Netherlands and Norway. I obtained my 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.