Dr. Thomas Faunce

Dr Thomas Faunce (BA/LLB(hons) B.Med PhD) is a Senior Lecturer in the College of Law and Medical School at the Australian National University. He is currently Director of two large Australian Research Council (ARC) grants:

1) investigating safety and cost-effectiveness regulation of nanomedicine
2) investigating the impact of international trade agreements on Australian medicines policy.

Dr Faunce is a founding Board member of the National Centre for Biosecurity at the ANU and is a consultant working with UNESCO on its global data base on health law ackground in law involves work as a judge's associate with Mr Justice Lionel Murphy of the High Court of Australia and as a barrister and solicitor with two of Australia's largest legal firms (Mallesons (Canb.) and Freehills (Syd)). As a law student he was a member of the ANU team which won the Jessup International Law mooting competition in Washington in 1981.

Dr Faunce's background in medicine involves training to the level of senior registrar in Intensive Care at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne (Australia's largest ICU). His PhD won the Crawford prize (best thesis in all fields 2001) and has been published by Kluwer Law International as Pilgrims in Medicine: Conscience, Law and Human Rights. His textbook on Intensive Care Physiology and Pharmacology is now in its 9th edition and his most recently published text (with UNSW Press) is Who Owns Our Health? Medical Professionalism, Law and Leadership Beyond the Age of the Market State.

He is married to Roza Faunce, a medieval art history professor, and they have a son named Blake aged two. They live in Canberra.