About ANZIHLE
Our mission is to foster innovation, facilitate communication and encourage collaboration among professionals and the community. To these ends, ANZIHLE provides education, conducts research, offers advice and contributes to public and private policy decision making.
ANZIHLE provides research, education, advice or opinion on topics including those listed below
ANZIHLE offers to its members interdisciplinary professional networks, dynamic debates, research collaboration, and engagements in consultancies on topics including:
- natural death legislation
- euthanasia
- abortion
- research on the embryo/foetus
- the allocation of scarce resources
- product liability
- patient rights
- reproductive technology
- confidentiality and respect of persons
- care of the physically and mentally disabled
- delivery of health care to persons with different cultural backgrounds
- expert evidence
- legal and ethical issues in public health
ANZIHLE can offer a range of services to both public and private sectors. It can facilitate or co-ordinate interdisciplinary research and consultancy projects, plan and administer educational programs and provide appropriate expert comment on a wide range of subjects in health, law and ethics, including those listed above.
A Brief History
In November 1994 about twenty law teachers with a common interest in health law and ethics met to discuss ways of addressing the perceived need for national collaboration among law and health academics and professionals.
In September 1995, the Institute was launched at a seminar in Sydney attended by about fifty persons from medical, philosophical, nursing and legal disciplines. The name and an interim constitution were agreed to and an interim board was appointed under the chairmanship of Professor Tom Campbell of Faculty of Law, The Australian National University. It was agreed that the Institute would be situated at that faculty for an initial period of three years.
In April 1996, the Institute was incorporated in the Australian Capital Territory.
From 1998 to 2002, the Secretariat was located in Melbourne.
In 2003, the Secretariat relocated to Hobart.
For information about the ANZIHLE Board, click on the link on the left hand side.