Associate Professor Angela Ballantyne

Research

Angela’s research interests include research with human subjects, justice, vulnerability, reproductive technologies, AI and data ethics. Angela has broad research interests, an interdisciplinary focus and is adept at working in diverse cultural and academic settings.? She has worked in the United States, England, Singapore, Geneva, Australia, and New Zealand; and in schools/departments of medicine, public health, primary health care, political science, and philosophy. She is a frequent visiting research scholar at Yale University and the National University of Singapore. She has been President of the International Association of Bioethics. She has a BSc in Genetics and Molecular Biology and PhD in Bioethics. Angela also has experience in qualitative research and deliberative engagement including running focus groups, interviews, and a citizens’ juries.

Angela values collaborating and working with people outside of academia. ?She has worked in plant genetics and in the Human Genetics unit at World Health Organization in Geneva.? She regularly serves as a bioethics expert on national New Zealand committees and international working groups.? She has served on expert committees for covid immunisation policy and research ethics review (e.g. HDECs); and is currently on the National AI and Algorithm Expert Advisory Group and the Ethics Committee on Assisted Reproductive Technologies in New Zealand. She speaks often on gender and fat bias for private companies, medical specialities and public sector agencies. ?Angela is a founding board member of the charity Birth Trauma Aotearoa, and a member of the PLATIPUS ethics working group (pregnancy related research).

Angela's work focuses on research ethics, and questions of global health and justice. Her current projects include:

• AI and emerging digital technologies in clinical care
• Gender and fat bias in medicine
• Precision medicine
• Research ethics (specifically justice and fair inclusion
• Data ethics
• Birth trauma