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Contact Details

Email
angela.ballantyne@otago.ac.nz

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Position
Professor
Department
Department of Bioethics (Dunedin)
Qualifications
PhD
Research summary
Research with human subjects, justice, vulnerability, reproductive technologies, precision medicine, AI and date ethics
Teaching
  • Undergraduate medical education
    • Fourth- and fifth-year professional skills attitudes and ethics (PSAE) sessions and essays
    • Abortion and paediatric ethics tutorials
  • Postgraduate guest lectures / workshops on research ethics

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

Publications

Ballantyne, A., Schaefer, G. O., Newson, A. J., Xafis, V., Toh, H. J., Ong, S., … Tai, E. S. (2026). Trustworthy governance of genomic and health-related data: Lessons from Singapore. Asian Bioethics Review. doi: 10.1007/s41649-025-00397-7 Journal - Research Article

Lim, J. E., Siddiqui, F. J., Ballantyne, A., Dunn, M., Prince, S., Wilkinson, D., … Schaefer, G. O. (2026). Ethical, legal, and social issues of AI use in emergency healthcare: A scoping review. BMC Medical Informatics & Decision Making. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1186/s12911-026-03355-x Journal - Research Other

Hatherley, J., Søgaard, A., Ballantyne, A., & Pauwels, R. (2026). Federation opacity and the promise of federated learning in healthcare. American Journal of Bioethics. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/15265161.2026.2637093 Journal - Research Article

Moerenhout, T., Hunter, I., & Ballantyne, A. (2026). A novel pathway for integrating ethics into digital technology design: A person-centred co-design approach developed in the context of assistive technologies for older adults. Science & Engineering Ethics, 32, 18. doi: 10.1007/s11948-026-00584-1 Journal - Research Article

Garrett, S., Ballantyne, A., Gladman, T., & Swift, M. (2026). Exploring the personal impact of cluttering: A scoping review of current evidence. Journal of Fluency Disorders, 87, 106197. doi: 10.1016/j.jfludis.2026.106197 Journal - Research Article

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