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Professor Sonia Allan OAM

Professor - School of Law

Phone: +61 2 6773 4578

Biography

Professor Sonia Allan OAM has multi-disciplinary training and experience in psychology, public health, and the law. She has worked in academia, law reform, and as a consultant for more than 20 years, and prior to that in a variety of legal and healthcare settings.

Sonia’s research focuses upon health law, the regulation of existing and emerging health technologies (for example, assisted reproduction, artificial intelligence, cloning, medicines, and therapeutic devices), and public and global health law. She has published widely across these areas. Sonia has also led major legislative reviews for the South Australian and Western Australian governments on assisted reproduction and surrogacy.

Sonia’s work has contributed to law reform and changes to policy on health issues domestically and internationally. She has presented in international and domestic forums as an expert for the United Nations, the OHCHR, WHO, UNFPA, and Hague Conference on Private International Law.

Sonia is a Churchill Fellow, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK). She was a Global Health Law Fellow at Georgetown University, Washington DC where she received the CALI Award for Health and Human Rights Law.

In 2019 Sonia was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia for her service to the law, and to tertiary education.

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