SCHOOL OF MEDICINE FACULTY OF HEALTH SCIENCES FLINDERS UNIVERSITY LIBRARY SEARCH

I am Associate Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Law in the School of Medicine. My responsibilities are to provide ethics, law and professionalism teaching across all four years of the graduate entry medical program. I also teach in other courses at Flinders University including Philosophy, Public Health, Speech Pathology, Dietetics and Nutrition and Medical Sciences.

My main research interests are public health ethics and feminist ethics. I am currently a CI on three ARC funded projects: on gender equity in Australian health research, on community consultation and ethical issues raised by flu pandemic planning, and on issues raised by biological donations including embryo and organ donations.  I have published widely in medical and ethics journals, serve on the editorial boards of Bioethics, Health Expectations and BMC Medical Ethics, and have international editing and reviewing responsibilities.
I have a number of appointments to international, national and local committees. I am currently the Co-coordinator of the  International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB) and a member of the Medical Board of South Australia. I served as a member of the NHMRC's Australian Health Ethics Committee from 2003-2006, during which time I was deputy chair of the  Working Party on Organ and Tissue Donation.  

I am one of the founding organisers of the Ethics Centre of South Australia which was established in 2005. The Centre is a joint venture between the three South Australian universities, and aims to foster ethics research, education and debate.

Recent publications include:

Rogers WA and Braunack-Mayer AJ. Practical Ethics for General Practice. Oxford University Press 2004.

Rogers WA. Evidence-based medicine and women: Do the principles and practice of EBM further women’s health? Bioethics 2004, 18 (1): 62-83.

Rogers WA. Evidence-based medicine and justice: a framework for looking at the impact of EBM on vulnerable or disadvantaged groups. Journal of Medical Ethics 2004 30: 141-145 .

Rogers WA, Mansfield P, Braunack-Mayer A, Jureidini, J. The ethics of pharmaceutical industry relationships with medical students. Medical Journal of Australia 2004, 180: 411-414.

Rogers WA. Ethical issues in public health: a qualitative study of public health practice in Scotland. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2004; 58: 446-450.

Jackson N, Waters E and the Guidelines for Systematic Review Taskforce. The challenges of systematically reviewing public health interventions. Journal of Public Health 2004; 26: 303-307.

Draper H and Rogers WA. Re-evaluating confidentiality: teaching and publications that use real patient information. Advances in Psychiatric Treatment 2005; 11: 115-124.

Palmer N and Rogers WA. Whistle-blowing in the medical curriculum: a response to Faunce. Monash Bioethics Review 2005; 24 (1): 50-58.

Mulligan E, Rogers WA, Braunack-Mayer A. Research within the privacy regulations: problems and solutions for database custodians. Electronic Journal of Health Informatics 2006; Vol 1 (1): e7 (http://www.ejhi.net) ISSN: 1446-4381

Rogers WA. Pressures on Confidentiality (invited commentary) Lancet 2006; 367 (18 Feb): 553-4.

Rogers WA. Feminism and Public Health Ethics. Journal of Medical Ethics 2006; 32: 351-354.

Palmer N, Braunack-Mayer A, Rogers W, Provis C, Cullity G. Conflicts of Interest in Divisions of General Practice Journal of Medical Ethics 2006; 32: 715-717

Lee C and Rogers WA Ethics, Pandemic Planning and Communications. Monash Bioethics Review (accepted October 2006)

 

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