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Associate Professor

Rebekah McWhirter

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Faculty of Health/School of Medicine/Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation

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  • Visitor
    Faculty of Health/School of Medicine/Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
  • +61 3 522 73036 (Work)
  • Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216

BIO

Dr Rebekah McWhirter is an associate professor in health law and ethics in the
School of Medicine. Her research interests include ethical and legal issues in
health and health research, Indigenous genetics, and empirical research
methods in ethical and legal research. She completed her PhD at the University
of Tasmania on the history of compulsory vaccination legislation, and has a
MSc in Public Health Research from the University of Edinburgh, investigating
genetic risk factors for multiple sclerosis in the Orkney and Shetland
Islands.

After working at the Menzies School of Health Research in Darwin and the
Menzies Institute for Medical Research on a range of cancer genetics projects,
Rebekah joined the Centre for Law and Genetics, and retrained in law at the
University of Melbourne and the ANU. Her work now brings together her
multidisciplinary experiences to focus on how the law can be used to improve
public health and health research.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT

  • Visitor
    Deakin University, School of Medicine

DEGREES

  • Doctor of Philosophy
    University of Tasmania
  • Master of Science in Public Health
    University of Edinburgh
  • Bachelor of Arts (1st Class Honours)
    University of Tasmania
  • Juris Doctor
    Australian National University

FIELDS OF RESEARCH (2020)

  • Applied ethics
  • Genetics
  • Health services and systems
  • Public health
  • Clinical sciences

AVAILABILITY FOR SUPERVISION

  • Masters by Research and PhD supervision

AREA/FACULTY

  • Faculty of Health

DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE

  • School of Medicine

STRATEGIC RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE

  • Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation