Rate My Professor Angela Ballantyne

Her research specializations include research ethics, global health policy and justice, exploitation and vulnerability, ethics of pregnancy and reproductive technologies, secondary use of clinical data, feminist bioethics, data ethics, and unconscious bias. She has secured the New Zealand Marsden Fast-Start Grant (2016) and the University of Otago Wellington Award for Best Emerging Researcher (2015). Key publications encompass the co-edited book Clinical Research Involving Pregnant Women (Springer, 2016); "Federation opacity and the promise of federated learning in healthcare" (American Journal of Bioethics, 2026); "A novel pathway for integrating ethics into digital technology design: A person-centred co-design approach" (Science and Engineering Ethics, 2026); and "Exploring the personal impact of cluttering: A scoping review of current evidence" (Journal of Fluency Disorders, 2026). Ballantyne served as President of the International Association of Bioethics (2016-2017) and as an ethics member on New Zealand's Health and Disability Ethics Committees (2010-2018). Current projects cover ethics of research using clinical data and tissue without explicit consent, frameworks for including pregnant women in research, and promoting best practices in surgical innovation. She delivered her Inaugural Professorial Lecture at the University of Otago Wellington in August 2025.