Associate Professor Megan Prictor

Overview

Megan is Associate Dean of the JD program and Co-Director of the HeLEX research program. She conducts research at the nexus of law and emerging health technologies, such as innovative informed consent tools, clinical technologies, and health data regulation and governance. Megan was a 2021 Dyason Fellow and was awarded a 2021 University of Melbourne Early Career Researcher Grant for research on genomics and digital health. She previously worked with Cochrane contributing to systematic reviews of informed consent, health communication and consumer engagement.

Megan has published widely including on dynamic consent, medical consultation recording, data breach notification laws and privacy and confidentiality in healthcare. She holds a PhD in the humanities (University of Melbourne, 2000) and a first-class honours degree in law (La Trobe University, 2014), for which she was awarded the Supreme Court Prize. Megan was admitted to practice as an Australian lawyer in 2017.

Memberships and Affiliations

• Member, Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law
• Member, Australasian Law Academics Association
• Member, Asian Privacy Scholars Network
• Member, World Association for Medical Law
• Associate Member, European Association of Health Law
• Member, International Association of Privacy Professionals