Research
CBmE is one of the largest academic research centres for bioethics in Asia. From our key research platforms in clinical, health systems and public health ethics, ethics and regulation of emergent science and biomedical technologies, and research ethics and regulation, we have developed internationally-recognised expertise in topical bioethical issues that impact the region.
Our work engages with these issues from interdisciplinary perspectives in philosophy, law and social science, to promote critical inquiry, foster dialogue and produce rigorous theoretical and empirical analyses. We strive to generate outputs that are policy-relevant and accessible to broad base professional, academic and non-academic communities.
Research Themes
- Health Data Governance
- Bioethical considerations for Precision Health Research, Singapore and Trustworthy Data Governance
- Exploring the ethics and sustainability of gene and cell-based technologies in precision healthcare across Australia and Singapore
- Collective Reflective Equilibrium and Algorithmic Bioethics in Medical Ethics
- Developing a trust governance framework for AI in Emergency Healthcare
- CREPSING: Collective Reflective Equilibrium in Practice in SINGapore
- Care at home: Addressing new ethical challenges in contemporary ageing societies
- Informed consent and decision-making in time-sensitive healthcare in Singapore—Understanding and improving patient informed
consent and decision-making in time-sensitive clinical trials - Science, policy and the media: A multi-country study on the impact of COVID-19 media narratives on population-level trust in science and policy
- Redirecting immune, lipid and metabolic drivers of early cardiovascular disease (RESET)
Health Opinion Panel SG
(HOPS)
Data from the Health Opinion Panel Singapore (HOPS) is nationally representative, approved by NUS IRB for public health and ethics research. The eligibility criteria are: Singaporeans or permanent residents aged 21 years and above; can read English; are frequent users of the internet; and have a personal email account. HOPS, as of July 2024, has 2533 participants.
Past Research Projects
| Project Name | CBmE Investigators and Collaborators |
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| Health-Related Data Sharing: From Good Governance to Public Trust |
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| Citizen engagement on Precision Medicine in Singapore |
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| Developing Ethical Guidelines for Promoting Specimen and Data Sharing in Health Research |
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Ethnographic Study of Vulnerable Communities’ Responses to COVID-19: Towards Community Resilience and Social Cohesion from Public Health Risk |
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| Trustworthy governance for sharing health-related data |
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| Translational stem cell research and innovation |
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| Values and Virtues in Public Health – Practitioners’ Perspectives |
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| New insights into the theory and practice of research ethics |
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