Our future: Connections, Conversation and Community

Invitation to Attend

The 2021 virtual conference for AABHL is a long-awaited opportunity to re-connect with colleagues from the bioethics and health law communities. It has been a difficult time for all of us. For many around the world, it continues to be most difficult. The global pandemic is not over but we can now begin to look forward. The conference theme acknowledges the bioethical and health law debates of the past year with a focus on shaping the future of our fields. What have we learnt about ourselves, our communities, our health systems, and our legal systems from this experience with a global crisis? What issues have been forgotten, marginalised or are emerging? How might we transform our thinking about ‘old’ issues? How can we improve our future?

The virtual format of the 2021 conference is designed to stimulate discussion and provide opportunities to engage with colleagues and ideas. We are planning plenary talks with key opinion leaders but also novel sessions designed for an online format to showcase conversations and perspectives that reflect contemporary discussions and different points of view. There will be opportunities to submit abstracts, learn from practical sessions, and network with colleagues old and new.

Join us for what promises to be a diverse, dynamic, and forward-looking conference.

AABHL 2021 Chairs: Professor Anne-Maree Kelly and Associate Professor Mark Taylor

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Who Should Attend?

This conference is targeted at academics and practitioners from the following professions and disciplines:

All aspects of healthcare
Policy development
Medico-legal
Education
Ethics/Philosophy
Research

Program Streams

The following stream topics will be represented in the 2021 conference program. When submitting an abstract for consideration for the conference program authors will be asked to identify the stream that best suits their presentation.

Clinical Ethics
Health Law
Research Ethics
Public Health Ethics
Teaching Ethics
Empirical Ethics

Important Dates

Abstracts open: Thursday 29th April 2021

Abstracts Close: Wednesday 23rd June 2021

Abstract Notifications: Released on 5 August 2021

Early Bird Rates End: Thursday 30th September 2021 – EXTENDED

About the Association

The Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law (AABHL) is Australia and New Zealand’s leading organisation concerned with issues of bioethics and health law. Its members come from many disciplines including medicine, nursing, law, ethics, philosophy, healthcare administration, allied health and complementary healthcare. AABHL encourages those with a professional interest in the relationship between law, bioethics, health care, public health, and global health governance, to become members.

AABHL was formed in 2009 from the amalgamation of the two leading Australasian organisations concerned with bioethical issues: the Australasian Bioethics Association and the Australian and New Zealand Institute of Health Law and Ethics, both established in the early 1990s.

https://aabhl.org