Research Team and Collaborators
Lead
Queensland Bioethics Centre, Australian Catholic University
Bridget is an ethics researcher and the Mater Senior Lecturer in Healthcare Ethics at the Queensland Bioethics Centre at Australian Catholic University. She is also an honorary in Centre for Health Equity at the School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne. From 2018-2022, she was a KNAW Visiting Professor at the Julius Centre for Global Health at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Bridget received her PhD in bioethics in 2012 and her Masters in International Health in 2009 from Monash University in Australia. From 2013 to 2015, Bridget was a Hecht-Levi fellow at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and a research fellow in the Department of International Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Bridget’s research interests include the ethics of global health research, health systems, and urban planning, with a focus on equity, social justice, and ecological justice. In her work, she uses a combination of applied philosophy and qualitative methods, reflecting her belief that the most robust ethical guidance is informed by both theory and practice. She has developed ethical guidance on the following topics: research priority-setting, research governance, community engagement, ancillary care, capacity development, post-study benefits, and data sharing.
Collaborators
Associate Professor Bebe Loff, Monash University
Associate Professor Deborah Zion, Victoria University
Associate Professor Phaik Yeong Cheah, Mahidol-Oxford Research Unit
Dr Khin Maung Lwin, Shoklo Malaria Research Unit
Professor Francois Nosten, Mahidol-Oxford Shoklo Malaria Research Unit
Professor Adnan Hyder, The George Washington University
Dr Prashanth N Srinivas, Institute of Public Health
Associate Professor Cathy Vaughan, University of Melbourne
Associate Professor Jesusa Marco, De La Salle University
Associate Professor Jantina de Vries, University of Cape Town
Assistant Professor Joyce Brown, UMC Utrecht
Associate Professor Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch, UMC Utrecht
Associate Professor Rieke van der Graf, UMC Utrecht
SCale up Integrated Care for diaBetes and hYpertension (SCUBY) Consortium
Research Assistants
Natalia Evertsz, University of Melbourne
Nityasri SN, Institute of Public Health
Dr Katharine A. Allen, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Jessica Snir, University of Melbourne
Michelle Walters, University of Melbourne
Mona Pindog, University of the Philippines