Rate My Professor Bernadette Richards

Richards specializes in bioethics, health law, trustworthy data governance, health data sharing, consent to medical treatment, organ donation, regulation of health innovations, and medical device representatives in hospitals. She is chief investigator on key grants including the MRFF-funded Ethical Governance for Clinical Genomic Data (2022-2027), NHMRC Partnership Grant on strategies for including vulnerable populations in Advance Care Planning, NHMRC Ideas Grant on ethical, legal, and social implications of machine learning systems for diagnosis and screening, and ARC Discovery Grant on medical device representatives in Australian hospitals. Her books include Technology, Innovation and Healthcare: An Evolving Relationship (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022, with Mark Taylor and Susannah Sage Jacobson), Tort Law Principles (Thomson Reuters, 2017, with Melissa de Zwart), and Medical Law and Ethics: A Problem-Based Approach (LexisNexis Butterworths, 2014, with Jennie Louise). Notable recent publications are 'Device Reps in Theatre: Blurred Boundaries or Regulatory Gaps?' (Monash Bioethics Review, 2025), 'A Scientometric Review of Health Data Sharing for Secondary Use: Insights, Frontiers and the Path Ahead' (Health Information Management Journal, 2025), and 'Public Data Sharing Legislation, Privacy and Sharing of Health and Social Welfare Data in Australia: A Legal and Policy Document Analysis' (Data & Policy, 2025). Prior to UQ, she advanced trustworthy data governance research at the Singapore-ETH Centre Future Health Technologies Project.