Angus Dawson ([email protected])
Angus Dawson is Professor of Bioethics at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics at National University of Singapore (NUS). His research has mainly focused on ethical issues in public and global health. He was joint founder and remains joint Editor-in-Chief of the journal Public Health Ethics. He has been involved in ethics and policy work for the World Health Organization, the UK Department of Health, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Public Health Agency of Canada, the Australian Federal Government, and Médecins Sans Frontières and the GAVI. Angus has been editor or co-editor of six collections of original papers mainly on topics in public health ethics, including Ethics, Prevention, and Public Health (2007) and Dawson A. (ed.), Public Health Ethics: Key Concepts and Issues in Policy and Practice (2011). Most recently, he was one of the editors of the new book Public Health Ethics: Cases Spanning the Globe. The collection contains background material and cases from public health policy and practice with contributions from twenty-three different countries. The whole book is available for free and has been downloaded in full or in part nearly a million and a half times.