A/Prof. Neera Bhatia

• End of Life Decision Making for Critically Ill Infants and Children
• Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) 
• Organ Donation
• Determination of Death & Dying 
• Emerging Reproductive Technologies 
• Emerging Health Technologies 
• Cryonics
• Health Law (more broadly)
• Bioethics

• Current - Deputy Chair, Deakin University Human Research Ethics Committee (DUHREC)
• Current: Deputy Convenor - Deakin Science and Society Network (SSN)
• 2020-2023: Chair - Faculty Human Ethics Advisory Group (HEAG)
• 2020-2023: Deakin University Human Research Ethics  - Panel Member

• Health Law 

• Tort Law

• Undergraduate  and Postgraduate - Health Law
• Undergraduate and Postgraduate  - Tort Law
• Undergraduate and Postgraduate - Misleading and Economic Torts

• End-of-life decision-making for critically ill children
• Organ donation and determination/definition of death
• Voluntary assisted dying
• Emerging health technologies
• Emerging reproductive technologies
• Contemporary issues in Health Law and Bioethics

Can supervise Masters and PhD Students

• Law

• Patients behaving badly: AABHL,19/11/2021
• Crowded House: Making room (for outside influence) in
  paediatric clinical practice encounters:AABHL, 18/11/2021
• Member of the organising committee of the Australian Association of Bioethics and Health Law Conference:AABHL,18-21/11/2021
• Early access to superannuation for IVF on the basis of “mental disturbance” Just sign here: The Melbourne Clinic, 04/08/2021 
• Keynote Speaker: Help, hype or harm? Ethical considerations of the online influence in paediatric healthcare, Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network, 22/07/2021 
• “Hope or Hype: The emerging challenge of child medical tourism in the care and treatment of critically ill children” - La Trobe Uni, 21/04/2021 
• From Birth to Death: The future of emerging health technology: The Melbourne Clinic,16/09/2020
• Child medical tourism: Opportunities and hazards of 21st-century global healthcare: AABHL, 22/11/2019, NZ 
•  Legal and ethical challenges in emerging technology and innovation in health Law: AABHL, 20/11/2019, NZ
• ‘Is an ‘opt out’ system of organ donation the way to increase organ donation rates in Australia?’Uni of Melb, Aus, 4/03/2019
• 'Disagreements in the care of critically ill children’, The Nuffield Council on Bioethics, U.K, 28/11/2018
• ‘A changing social and medical landscape in the care of critically ill infants and children’,Centre for Ethics and Medicine, Bristol, U.K, 26/11/2018
• Navigating the interdisciplinary landscape', AABHL, Aus, 23-25/09/2018
• '#Uncharted Territory: The new era of social media and the impact on the end of life decision-making for critically ill infants', 10th National Paediatric Bioethics Conference, Royal Children's Hospital, Aus, 5/09/2018
• 'Charlie Gard: How the 'court of public opinion' may influence future end of life decision making', (ICCEC), Oxford Uni, U.K,21/06/2018
• 'Property rights over cadaveric organs and tissues in an 'opt out' system of organ donation in Australia and New Zealand: How important are the next of kin?', (ICCEC), Oxford Uni, U.K, 22/06/2018 
• 'Cryonics: Our frozen future or this century’s snake oil?', Invited Speaker, Sydney Health Ethics Centre, Uni of Sydney, Aus,29/03/2018
• 'Victoria's Voluntary Assisted Dying Legislation: An open dialogue about its function, impact and implementation', Aus,13/12/2017 'Solving the organ crisis ethically',Invited Speaker, Melbourne Uni Public Lecture, Aus,25/08/2015
• 'Critically Impaired Infants and End of Life Decision Making: Resource Allocation and Difficult Decisions', Australian Lawyers Alliance - Medical Law Conference, Aus,31/07/2015 
• 'Transplantation of the heart after circulatory death: Time for a change in the law', Grand Round Seminar, Royal Children's Hospital, Aus, 24/06/2015
• 'Cutting the Cord: Can society over-invest in extremely premature neonates?', Law and Society, U.S.A,29/05/2014

Google Scholar

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A/P Neera Bhatia regularly engages with the media across all platforms: television, radio, digital and print media on a range of topical issues. She also writes for The Conversation on contemporary issues in health law.

Selected media appearances are listed below

• Call to action’ for organ donation after VAD, Medical Republic, 4/9/2023
•  Feasibility of organ donation following voluntary assisted dying in Australia: lessons from international practice, MJA Podcast, 08/2023
• ABC News, Guidelines needed for voluntary assisted dying patients regarding organ donation, experts say, 18/7/203
• Tory Shepherd, Informal sperm donation a ‘wild west’ putting parents and children at risk,The Guardian,17/4/2023
• Sperm donation 'wild west', The Western Australian,19/4/2023
• ABC Melbourne, Informal sperm donation, 20/4/2023
• Tinder for baby-making: Sperm donation ‘wild west’ exposed, Geelong Advertiser,20/4/2023
• Feed Pray Love Podcast with Shevonne Hunt , A market for breast milk, 13/12/2022
• Red Cross expands breast milk donation services to WA to help premature babies, ABC News Online,12/12/2022
• ABC Sydney Drive - Regulation of Human milk, 7/12/2022
• ABC Radio Canberra, Black market for breast milk, 8/12/2022
• 6PR Perth Breakfast, Black market from human milk, 8/12/2022
• Melissa Davey, Boom in Australia breast milk sales and donations a risk to infants, expert says, The Guardian, 7/12/2022
• What happens if you want access to voluntary assisted dying but your nursing home won’t let you?, The Conversation, 31/05/2022
• Why IVF is more equal than other healthcare in the pandemic, AFR, 2/02/2022
• People are using their super to pay for IVF, with their fertility clinic's blessing. That's a conflict of interest’, The Conversation, 01/07/2021
• ABC Radio Sydney, Legal implication of Cryonics,26/10/2021
• Radio Adelaide, ethics of artificial gestation, 13/11/19
• We may one day grow babies outside the womb, but there are many things to consider first,The Conversation 11/11/2019
• Triple M News Bulletin,Introduction of Voluntary Assisted Dying Laws in Victoria,19/06/2019
• ABC Ballarat, Victoria's Voluntary Assisted Dying Legislation, 19/06/2019
• SBS News, More Australians are donating organs but demand is outstripping supply, 20/12/2018
• An opt-out system isn't the solution to Australia's low rate of organ donation, The Conversation,12/12/2018
• Diversity still so far away, right across the board, Chris Merritt, The Australia, 27/10/2018
• National Radio News, Opt Out Organ Donation Systems and Property Rights, 26/01/2018
• Organ donations should be decided by next of kin: Deakin University expert', Geelong Advertiser, Australia, 25/01/2018
• ABC News at Noon with Ros Childs,The case of Charlie Gard, 25/07/2017
• Three ways the Charlie Gard case could affect future end-of-life cases globally, The Conversation 25/07/2017
• ABC Lateline with David Lipson, Cryonics, Interview with Dr Neera Bhatia and Marta Sandberg, 14/02/2017
• ABC News: Opinion, Cryonics: Are freezing bodies all hype, hope, or is it just logistical and ethical hell?, 24/11/2016
• Cryonics: Hope, Hype or Hell?, The Conversation, 23/11/2016
• Debate over the definition of death, does the law need to change, Jill Margo, The Australian Financial Review, 27/11/2015
• New forms of heart transplant illegal, journal article warns, Craig Butt, Sydney Morning Herald, Canberra Times, The Age, 21/09/2015
• ABC 774 DRive: Radio Interview with Raphael Epstein, 21/09/15

• New Ideas Grant, Project: 'Unregulated methods of creating non-traditional families and assisted reproductive technology, 2022, $9,446 (with Prof Catherine Mills).
• SSN Grant, Project: 'Immortalising organs: a feminist study of emerging placental technologies', 2021, $7,500 (with Dr Jaya Keaney, Dr Jacqueline Dalziell, Dr Marnie Winter and A/Prof Dominique Martin).
• Nuffield Council on Bioethics (U.K.), Project: 'Disagreements in the care of critically ill children: Challenges for policy in changing social and medical contexts', 2018: $4,555 (with Prof Richard Huxtable, Dr Giles Birchley and Dr Jonathan Ives). 
• Deakin University Research Network (DURN), Project: 'End of Life Care', 2018: $110,000 (with Peter Martin, Rebecca Bartel).
• Deakin University Research Network (DURN), Project: 'Gen(e)quality', 2018: $110,000 (with Jeffrey Craig, Evie Kendall, Maurizio Meloni, Olga Hogan).