Monique Jonas

Associate Professor, School of Population Health, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
Dr Monique Jonas is an Associate Professor within the School of Population Health at the University of Auckland, where she has been based since 2010. Monique studied English and Politics as an undergraduate and was drawn to political philosophy and ethical theory. That sparked an interest in moral status and decisions at the beginning of life. Monique is an ethical theorist whose research focuses on decision-making for children, the status of health advice, the ethics of advice-giving, distributive justice in health, equity and the relationship between the family and the state. She enjoys working in a multi-disciplinary environment in the School of Population Health, and welcomes supervision inquiries in ethical theory and applied ethics.

Monique completed her PhD at King’s College London in 2005, where she explored ethical aspects of decision-making for neonates, under the supervision of Professor Jonathan Glover. She began her academic career working as a research assistant for Professor Søren Holm at Manchester University, and then as a lecturer at the Centre for Professional Ethics at Keele University.

Monique has been a University of Auckland Proctor since 2021, and Chair of the Health Research Council Ethics Committee since 2020. She has also been a member of the School of Population Health Board of Research since 2020.

Monique has held research grants from the Health Research Council (2020) and the Royal Society of New Zealand (Marsden, 2019) For more details, see the Research page.

Since 2020, Monique has been Australasian Co- Chair of the Cambridge Bioethics Education Consortium Working Group. She has also been on the Editorial Board of Public Health Ethics since 2015. Monique has also published in many journals, including Pediatrics, Medical Law Review, Bioethics, and Child and Family Law Quarterly.

Her latest book, expected publication date of 2024, is The Ethics of Advising [Oxford University Press]. She also presents at international conferences and conventions including the annual Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law Conference.