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Qualifications BA LLB (Hons) (ANU). BMed (Newcastle) PhD (ANU; JG Crawford Prize)
Biography Judges Associate to Mr Justice Lionel Murphy (High Court of Australia) 1983. Barrister and Solicitor Mallesons Stephen Jaques (Canberra) 1984-1985). Solicitor Freehill Hollingdale and Page (Sydney) 1985-1988. Senior Registrar Intensive Care The Alfred Hospital (Melbourne) 2002-2003. Project Director, ARC Funded Studies on (1) Impact of International Trade Agreements on Access to Medicines in Australia and (2) Regulating Nanomedicine Safety and Cost-effectiveness
Scholarly Interests

ARC Future Fellowship 2009-2013: 'Fostering Safe Nanotechnology Research Focused on Critical Public Health Problems'.

This Project builds upon the applicant's unique interdisciplinary research and collaborations to develop an innovative framework for improving occupational health and safety standards of nanotechnology research at the Australian National University and fostering its focus on critical public health problems such as biosecurity, food and water safety, pollution control and equitable access to health technologies.

Recent Publications

WHO OWNS OUR HEALTH: Medical Professionalism, Law and Leadership Beyond the Age of the Market State. UNSW Press (2007) (Johns Hopkins University Press in United States and Europe)

Forthcoming: NANOTECHNOLOGY AND GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH: An Introductory Analysis (Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd)

TA Faunce et al 'Sunscreen Safety: The Precautionary Principle, the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration and Nanoparticles in Sunscreens' Nanoethics 2008; 2: 231-240

Representative Publications

TA Faunce (College of Law and Medical School ANU) J White (Solid State Molecular Science, Research School of Chemistry ANU) and K Matthaei (Stem Cell and Gene Targeting Laboratory JCSMR ANU) "Integrated Research into the Nanoparticle-protein Corona: A New Focus for Safe, Sustainable and Equitable Development of Nanomedicines" Nanomedicine (UK) 2008; 3(6): 859-66 

Appointments

Australian Research Council Future Fellow 2009-2013.

Associate Professor College of Law (Bioethics, Health Law and Human Rights) and Medical School (Chair, Professionalism and Leadership). Director, Globalization and Health Project

  Founding Board Member, National Centre for Biosecurity (NCB); ANU Central Human Research Ethics Committee; ANU Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee. Married: Ms Roza DeLaune Faunce (medieval art historian) Son: Blake Alured Faunce (born 25 October 2004)
Name Thomas Alured Faunce
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Email Thomas.Faunce@anu.edu.au
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