Michael Selgelid

Deputy Director (ANU)

Michael Selgelid is one of the founding members of the National Centre for Biosecurity and its Deputy Director for ANU. He also holds a joint appointment between the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) and the Menzies Centre for Health Policy at ANU. He was previously the Sesquicentenary Lecturer in Bioethics in the Unit for History and Philosophy of Science and the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine (VELIM) at the University of Sydney, where he coordinated the proposal and development of a successful new postgraduate program in Bioethics.

Michael has also held posts in the Division of Bioethics and Department of Philosophy at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He earned a PhD in Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego and a BSE in Biomedical Engineering at Duke University. He Completed an undergraduate Philosophy curriculum at the University of California, Irvine.

The primary focus of Michael’s research is on the history of, and ethical issues associated with infectious disease and genetics. He is especially interested in the health care situation in developing countries and ethical issues associated with bioterrorism. He was the principal researcher for a recent CAPPE consultancy with the commonwealth Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet on Ethical and Philosophical Aspects of the Dual-Use Dilemma in the Biological Sciences and he cvo-editied Ethics and Infectious Disease (Blackwell, 2006).

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