Lindy Willmott:
QUT’s Health Law Research Centre has the largest number of health law academics in Australia. We’re undertaking groundbreaking research, research that makes a difference.

Ben White:
We look at end of life decision-making, we look at the law that governs birth and conception, consent to medical treatment, clinical negligence, regulation of health professionals, and health governance.

Lindy Willmott:
Australia’s facing a range of health law challenges. Issues like designer babies, assisted reproductive technologies, saviour siblings. These are really complex issues, and these are the issues that we’re grappling with.

Ben White:
One of the exciting things about QUT’s Health Law Research Centre is an opportunity to draw together health law scholars with a shared purpose. We take a collaborative approach, working with partners in the field: doctors, nurses, legal professionals, hospitals, governments.

We also take an interdisciplinary approach, we draw together colleagues from a range of different fields to look at the same problem from different perspectives. So looking through the lens of medicine, nursing, ethics, sociology, social work, health economics, all to try and solve a problem.

Lindy Willmott:
The centre has 15 full-time academics, and of course we also want to graduate high quality postgraduate research students.

Ben White:
QUT is a national leader in health law research. We have a great group of people who are really passionate about the subject, and we do groundbreaking research that makes a difference.