Associate Professor Thomas Alured Faunce
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Associate Professor. College of Medicine and Health Sciences and College of Law Address: College of Law Australian National University Fellows Road Acton Canberra ACT 0200 Phone: (02) 61253563 Fax: (02) 61253971 Email: Thomas.Faunce@anu.edu.au Webpage: http://law.anu.edu.au/scripts/StaffDetails.asp?StaffID=236 |
Role in the network
Experienced Researcher (ER)Materials Research Focus
Materials for a sustainable AustraliaCurrent Research Activities
Nanotechnology safety regulationNanotherapeutics cost-effectiveness regulation
Nanotherapeutics and technology transfer
Collaborative, integrated and targeted multidisciplinary nanotechnology research
Selected Publications
External Publication List1) TA Faunce "Nanotherapeutics: New Challanges for Safety and Cost-Effectiveness Regulation in Australia" Medical Journal of Australia 2007 186 (4): 189-191
2) Faunce, TA Challenges for Australia’s Bio/Nanopharma Policies: Trade Deals, Public Goods and Reference Pricing in Sustainable Industrial Renewal Australian and New Zealand J Health Policy 2007 Jun 1;4(1):9
3) Faunce T and Shats K. Researching safety and cost-effectiveness in the life cycle of nanomedicine. J Law Med. 2007 Aug;15(1):128-35.
4) Faunce T. Nanotechnology in Global Medicine and Human Biosecurity: Private Interests, Policy Dilemmas and the Calibration of Public Health Law. Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics (US) 2007; 35(4) (winter) 629-642
5) Faunce TA. Toxicological and public good considerations for the regulation of nanomaterial-containing medical products Expert Opinion in Drug Safety 2008; 7(2): 103-106
6] Faunce TA and Speldewinde S [2007] “The AUSFTA and “Fast Track’ Regulatory Approval of Medicines: Problems and Opportunities for Australian Academic Innovations in Nanotherapeutics” in Stranger M (ed), Human Biotechnology and Public Trust: Trends, Perceptions and Regulation Hobart, Centre for Law and Genetics
7] Faunce TA “Forensic Nanotechnology, Biosecurity and Medical Professionalism: Improving the Australian Health Care System’s Response to Terrorist Bombings in M Oxenham (ed) Forensic Anthropology. Australian Academic Press 2008.
8) TA Faunce Who Owns Our Health. Medical Professionalism, Law and Leadership Beyond the Age of the Market State University of NSW Press. 2007 (Johns Hopkins University Press in USA and Europe)
9) Faunce TA (2006) Global Intellectual Property Protection for Innovative Pharmaceuticals: Challenges for Bioethics and Health Law in Globalisation and Health, B Bennett and GF Tomossy (eds) Springer. Dordrecht.
10) Faunce TA (2006) International Trade Agreements and the Practise of Medicine in Disputes and Dilemmas in Health Law I Freckelton and K Petersen (eds) Federation Press
Membership/Fellowship of Key Organisations
Board Member Australian and New Zealand Institute of Health Law and Ethics (2003-2207)Founding Board Member National Biosecurity Centre, ANU
Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetics and Intensive Care Medicine
Awards and Distinctions
Crawford Prize for PhD(best thesis in all fields ANU 2001)Law Society Prize for Contracts, Law Faculty, ANU – 1977
Prize for Air and Space Law, Law Faculty, ANU – 1982
Member of ANU Law Faculty Winning Team, Jessup International Law Mooting Competition (Overall winner: Australian Finals, Melbourne, International Rounds and Final, Washington DC, United States; prize for third best oralist; joint prize for best memorial– 1982)
Primary Fellowship examination: Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetics and Intensive CAre Medicine
Professional Recognition and Outreach
Over 30 opinion-editorial pieces in major national newspapersFrequent comment in all forms of media
ANU Central Research Ethics Committee, Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee
Canberra Hospital and Calvary Hoispital Clinical Ethics Committees
