Human Rights and Bioethics Unit - DEPM

The Human Rights and Bioethics Unit is involved in teaching at both postgraduate and undergraduate levels and offers advisory and consulting services in the fields of health and human rights, bioethics and public health law. Consulting services are provided to agencies of the United Nations and international nongovernmental organisations, governments of other countries, and State and Federal governments in Australia.

Head - Bebe Loff   BA, LLB, MA (Lond), PhD
Phone - + 613 99030587
Fax - + 613 99030576

Staff

Mr Bradley Crammond BA (Hons), LLB (Hons), LLM
Dr Deborah Zion BA(Hons), MA, PhD
Dr Liz Bishop BA, LLB
Dr Claudia Sleger
Ms Cheryl Overs
Mr Vishal Kishore
Mr Lachlan Tan

Honorary Staff

• Dr Jim Black
• Dr Wendy Holmes
• Professor Mike Toole

PhD Students

Olivia Ball
Brad Crammond
Basia Diug
Lisa Elford
Shyamala Nataraj
Bridget Pratt

Teaching

Staff in the unit teach at all levels of the undergraduate medical course and a large range of postgraduate courses offered through the department.

In particular, the unit is responsible for  -

Master of International Research Bioethics,
Master of International Health in collaboration with The Centre for International Heatlh, Burnet Institute

The Unit also teaches “Health, ethics and human rights” within the Graduate Diploma in International Health and the Masters of Public Health and “Law for health systems” in the range of Health Services Management Courses.