Assoc Prof Michael Dunn is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS. He works across bioethics, health law, socio-legal studies, and health/social care services research. His current research interests focus mainly on ethical aspects of community-based, integrated, age-friendly, and long-term care practice, policy and law—in Singapore, the UK, and internationally. For the past 20 years, he has also been critically analysing the ethical and legal dimensions of decision-making within adult caregiving relationships. 

In his role as Co-Director of Education at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics (CBmE), he has strategic oversight of the direction and content of the diverse educational portfolio within the Centre. As Undergraduate Director, he also has overarching responsibility for delivering CBmE’s longitudinal undergraduate programmes in health ethics, law, and professionalism—now forming part of an overarching 5-year Professional Practice curriculum, and which are now responsible for educating 2,500 medical, dental, pharmacy, and nursing students within NUS at any one time.