Fiona McDonald

Contact information

Email: fiona.mcdonald@qut.edu.au
Telephone: +61 07 31382010
Mailing address:
Faculty of Law
Queensland University of Technology
C308, C Block, 2 George Street, GPO Box 2434
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 4001

Department

• Associate Professor, School of Law at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia
  
• Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Bioethics, Dalhousie University

Research topics

• Rural health and rural bioethics - New book Rethinking Rural Health Care (read the Chronicle Herald article here)
  
• Organizational ethics
• Health systems law
• Governance within health care

Related information

• Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Faculty of Law
• QUT publications
• CV
• Technoscience and Regulation Research Unit (TRRU)
  

Education

• BA (Victoria University of Wellington)
• LLB (Victoria University of Wellington)
• LLM (Dalhousie University)
• JSD (Dalhousie University)

Research interests

Dr. McDonald’s research interests encompass rural bioethics and health governance, including the governance of: health systems and organizations (urban and rural); health professionals; health technologies; and healthcare quality and patient safety. Her work is interdisciplinary and draws from law, bioethics and regulatory theory.

Selected publications

• Simpson, Christy; McDonald, Fiona. Rethinking Rural Health Ethics. Springer Publishing Inc, 2017.  In press.
• B. White, F. McDonald & L. Willmott, eds., Health Law in Australia 2^nd edition (Sydney: Thomson, 2014).
• S. Short & F. McDonald, eds., Health Workforce Governance: Improved Access, Good Regulatory Practice, Safer Patients (London: Ashgate, 2012).
• C. Simpson & F. McDonald F.  “'Any body is better than nobody?' Ethical questions around recruiting and/or retaining health professionals in rural areas” (2011) 11: 1867 Rural and Remote Health. Available: http://www.rrh.org.au.
• C. Holmes, F. McDonald, M. Jones, V. Ozedemir & J. Graham, “Standardization and Omics Science: Technical and Social Dimensions are Inseparable and Demand Symmetrical Study” (2010) 14:3 Omics: The Journal of Integrative Biology 1-6 Available: http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1089/omi.2010.0022.

Memberships

• Member, editorial board, QUT Law Review
• Executive member, QUT’s Centre for Emergency and Disaster Management
• Associate Fellow Australasian College of Health Service Management
• Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law

Service & activity

• Deputy Chair, QUT’s University Human Research Ethics Committee