Region Western Philosophy Main interests Ethics Era Contemporary philosophy | School Analytic philosophy Name Michael Selgelid | |
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Notable ideas Health Crisis Ethics Developing World Health Ethics Books Ethical and Philosophical Consideration of the Dual-Use Dilemma in the Biological Sciences | ||
Dual Use Bioethics
Michael J. Selgelid is a bioethicist and moral philosopher. He is known for his contributions to public health ethics, as well as issues related to biotechnology and infectious diseases. He is the current Director of the Centre for Human Bioethics at Monash University and of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Bioethics therein.
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Education
Selgelid studied a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering at Duke University, and completed his PhD in Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego under the supervision of Philip Kitcher.
Work and awards
While completing his PhD in San Diego, Selgelid became a Research Fellow at the European Academy (Europaische Akademie), Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany. In 2003 he worked at the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa and spent time at the University of Murcia in Spain. In 2005 he joined the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine at the University of Sydney, Australia, and in 2006 he became a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra. At ANU he also was the Deputy Director of the National Centre for Biosecurity. Since 2006, Selgelid continued to be involved with the University of Sydney as an Honorary Lecturer.
Selgelid joined the Centre for Human Bioethics at Monash University in 2011, becoming its Director.
His work in bioethics, especially in biosecurity and global health, has been recognised and relied upon by a host of national and international organisations, including the World Health Organisation and Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Australia. During the 2014 Ebola Crisis, Selgelid has been one of the primary ethicists advising the WHO. The Monash University’s Centre for Human Bioethics has been designated as a World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Bioethics under Selgelid's direction.
In 2004, he was a finalist for the Mark S. Ehrenreich Prize in Healthcare Ethics Research, and has been awarded multiple research fellowships to the Brocher Foundation in Geneva, Switzerland.
Publications
Selected books authored or edited include: