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A/Prof Michael Dunn
Associate Professor, Centre for Biomedical Ethics, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
Michael Dunn is an Associate Professor and the Director of Education at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics (CBmE). His research focuses on ethical questions arising in health and social care practice, policy and law, particularly in relation to people whose needs and perspectives may be marginalised within healthcare and society. He has a longstanding interest in the ethical and legal dimensions of decision-making within adult caregiving relationships.
Michael’s work is interdisciplinary, combining philosophical and legal analysis with qualitative social science. A major strand of his scholarship examines the nature and methodology of bioethical inquiry, and he has made significant contributions to the development of empirical bioethics as a distinctive methodological approach. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, authored or edited six books, and secured more than S$8.5 million in competitive research funding across more than 20 projects.
Alongside his research, Michael has extensive experience in health professional education. He leads CBmE’s undergraduate programme in health ethics, law and professionalism, which is delivered across five years to medical, dental, pharmacy and nursing students at NUS. He also teaches postgraduate courses in the foundations and methods of bioethics, the ethics of ageing, and AI and health data ethics, and he has supervised 13 PhD students across bioethics, law and psychiatry.
Michael is also an associate faculty member at the Ethox Centre, University of Oxford, where he worked for more than a decade before joining NUS, and has held visiting academic positions in Japan, Hong Kong, the United States, the Netherlands and Norway. He received his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from the University of Cambridge in the UK.