Dr Neera Bhatia

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

• Clinical Ethics Committee Member, Melbourne City Mission Palliative Care
• Clinical Ethics Commitee Member, Monash Health
• Health Law Stream Leader, Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law (AABHL)
• Co-Theme Leader, Health Futures, Deakin Science and Society Network (SSN)
• Member, Society of Legal Scholars
• Member, Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law (AABHL)
• Member, Centre for Organisational Change in Person-Centred Healthcare
• Member, Deakin Science and Society Network (SSN)

• Tort Law
• Misleading and Deceptive Conduct
• Health Law

• MLJ704 - Torts and Policy
• MLJ706 - Law And Policy Of Misleading Conduct And Product Liability
• MLL213 - Tort Law
• MLL217 - Misleading and Economic Torts
• MLL330 - Health Law

• Tort Law 

• Misleading Conduct and Economic Torts 

• Health Law and Bioethics.

• 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 
• Workshop: 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', Panellist, 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

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• Legal implication of Cryonics, ABC Radio Sydney, 26/02/20 
• Radio Adelaide, ethics of artificial gestation, 13/11/19
• Radio 3CR,Victoria Voluntary Assisted Dying Laws, 1/07/19
• Introduction of Voluntary Assisted Dying Laws in Victoria, Radio:Triple M News Bulletin, 19/06/19
• Victoria's Voluntary Assisted Dying Legislation, ABC Ballarat, 19/06/19
• How to increase organ donation rates in Australia without adopting an 'opt out' system, Radio 2NM:AM981 Breakfast with Andrew Reynolds, Hunter Valley, Sydney, 28/12/18
• 'More Australians are donating organs but demand is outstripping supply', SBS News, 20/12/18
• Commentary, An opt-out system isn???t the solution to Australia???s low rate of organ donation, The Conversation, 12/12/18
• 'Diversity still so far away, right across the board', Chris Merritt,
• 'Opt Out??? Organ Donation Systems and Property Rights', National Radio News with Katreena Shelley, Australia, 26/01/18
• 'Organ donations should be decided by next of kin: Deakin University expert', Geelong Advertiser, Australia, 25/01/18
• 'The role of the next-of-kin??? in organ donation and ???Opt Out???  Systems', Radio Live News with John-Michael Swannix, New Zealand, 24/01/18
• Commentary, Three ways the Charlie Gard case could affect future end-of-life cases globally, The Conversation, 25/07/17
• 'The case of Charlie Gard, Interview with Neera Bhatia', ABC News at Noon with Ros Childs, Australia, 25/07/17
• 'Cryonics, Interview with Dr Neera Bhatia and Marta Sandberg', ABC Lateline with David Lipson, Australia, 14/02/17
• Legal Affairs, The Australian, Australia, 27/10/17
• 'The tragic case of Charlie Gard', Interview with Neera Bhatia, ABC South East Breakfast with Simon Lauder, Australia, 28/07/17
• 'The Charlie Gard Case and the impact of social media', Interview with Neera Bhatia, ABC News Radio with Cathy Bell, Australia, 25/07/17
• Bhatia, N. and Savulescu, J., 'Cryonics: Are freezing bodies all hype, hope, or is it just logistical and ethical hell?', ABC News: Opinion, Australia, 24/11/16
• 'The Ethics of Cryonics', ABC Perth Breakfast Radio with Peter Bell, Australia, 24/11/16
• 'Life and Death Decisions for Micro-Prems', Think: Health, Radio 2SER, Australia, 8/02/16
• Commentary, Withdrawing treatment from premature babies ??? when doctors and parents disagree, The Conversation, 6/02/16
• Commentary with Julian Savulescu, 'Cryonics: Hope, Hype or Hell?', The Conversation, 23/11/16
• 'Debate over the definition of death, does the law need to change????, Jill Margo, The Australian Financial Review, 27/11/15
• 'New forms of heart transplant illegal, journal article warns???, Craig Butt, Sydney Morning Herald, Canberra Times, The Age, 21/09/15
• 'Legal tweak could save lives???, Brad Crouch, Adelaide Advertiser, 21/09/15
• ABC 774 DRive: Radio Interview with Raphael Epstein, 21/09/15
• 'Change to law needed to ease heart transplant shortfall', Radio National News, 21/09/15
• Discussion about the legal pitfalls of heart transplantation after circulatory death and the risks for doctors, Medical Journal of Australia Podcast: Episode 28, 21/09/15
• 'Premature babies at the edge of viability', The Wire Community Radio, 8/07/15
• 'Should we save extremely premature babies?', ABC Regional Radio, 16/06/15
• 'The Ethics of saving premature babies', RN: DRIVE, ABC National Radio, 16/06/15
• Geelong academic questions cost of saving some babies, Geelong Independent, 16/06/15

• Nuffield Council on Bioethics (U.K.), Project: 'Disagreements in the care of critically ill children: Challenges for policy in changing social and medical contexts', Dr Neera Bhatia,  2018: $4,555
• Deakin University Research Network (DURN), Project: 'End of Life Care', Chief Investigators: Dr Neera Bhatia (with Peter Martin, Rebecca Bartel), 2018: $110,000
• Deakin University Research Network (DURN), Project: 'Gen(e)quality', Chief Investigators: Dr Neera Bhatia (with Jeffrey Craig, Evie Kendall, Maurizio Meloni, Olga Hogan), 2018: $110,000
• 'Using children’s literature to empower paediatric cancer patients to express assent for end-of-life care choices and treatment decisions', Deakin Science and Society Network (SSN), 2018
• 'Teaching professionalism: What can colleagues in HASS and STEM disciplines learn from each other, and what are the opportunities for interdisciplinary research?', Deakin Science and Society Network (SSN), 2018
• End of Life Conversations: Fundamentals of legislation and complex conversations module: Collaboration with Centre for Organisational Change in Person-Centred Healthcare, Dec 2018 - Ongoing