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Dr. Ehsan Shamsi Gooshki is a Lecturer at the Monash Bioethics Centre within the Faculty of Arts at Monash University, a role he assumed in 2023. A physician by training, he earned his MD from Shiraz University of Medical Sciences in 2005 and a PhD in Medical Ethics in 2013. Prior to his appointment at Monash, he served as Associate Professor of Medical Ethics at Tehran University of Medical Sciences since 2014. In Iran, Dr. Shamsi Gooshki has occupied key leadership positions, including Secretary of the National Committee for Ethics in Biomedical Research at the Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Senior Advisor and Secretary of the Medical Ethics Committee at the Iran Medical Council, and Secretary of the Medical Ethics Group at the Iran Academy of Medical Sciences. His international experience encompasses an internship at the Department of Health Ethics and Governance at the World Health Organization in Geneva in 2010, as well as visiting research fellowships at the Institute of Biomedical Ethics at the University of Zurich and the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University.

Dr. Shamsi Gooshki's research specializations include global health ethics with emphases on epistemic injustice and global health equity, bioethics governance including implementation and justification of ethical standards, research ethics encompassing clinical research ethics, research integrity, and publication ethics, clinical ethics addressing professional ethics, end-of-life issues, and organ transplantation, and public health ethics focused on health services for migrants and vulnerable populations. He has authored 78 research outputs, among them recent works such as "Cultural diversity or ethical evasion? A critique of geographical essentialism in bioethical analysis" (2025, The American Journal of Bioethics), "Ethical challenges in conducting research in low and middle income setting during public health emergencies: a qualitative evidence of a COVID-19 pandemic: the experience of Iran" (2025, BMC Medical Ethics), "Healthcare under siege: the ethics of sanctions, problematic dichotomies, and the misuse of the concept of dual-use" (2025, The American Journal of Bioethics), and "Hospital ethics committees and clinical ethics support services in Iran" (2025). He has contributed articles to prominent journals including The Lancet and Nature Medicine. Currently, he is a member of the UNESCO International Bioethics Committee (Vice-Chair since 2023), WHO Consultant in Clinical Ethics (since 2022), Vice-Chair of the WHO Ethics Review Committee (since 2021), and a member of the WHO Ethics & Governance of Infectious Disease Outbreaks Working Group. Dr. Shamsi Gooshki supervises PhD students and delivers keynote addresses at international conferences.