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Associate Professor Bebe Loff

BA, LLB, MA (Medical Law & Ethics), PhD

Head, Human Rights & Bioethics Unit

Associate Professor Bebe Loff is Head of the Human Rights and Bioethics Unit in the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine and currently a Victorian Health Promotion Foundation Senior Research Fellow. She coordinates the Master of International Health and the Master of International Research Bioethics.

Prior to joining Monash University she was responsible for the legislative programmes of Ministers of Health in Victoria. She has worked in various capacities for a number of United Nations agencies including the World Health Organization, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and UNAIDS. She has been a member of several ethical review committees including that of the World Health Organization, the Australian Health Ethics Committee (a principal committee of the NHMRC). In addition, she was for a time, an Australian correspondent for The Lancet and a regular human rights commentator. .