Associate ProfessorMorgan Carpenter

Associate Professor of Practice

Faculty of Medicine and Health

BIO

Morgan Carpenter, PhD, is an Associate Professor at Sydney Health Ethics, Sydney School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health. Morgan is an internationally recognised expert on human rights and ethics in relation to the treatment of people with innate variations of sex characteristics (also known as intersex variations or differences of sex development). His work focuses on medicine, health policy and social policy.

Morgan is also the Executive Director of InterAction for Health and Human Rights, a charity that promotes the health and human rights of people with innate variations of sex characteristics through advocacy and psychosocial support services. He is an inaugural member of the Australian Capital Territory's new Restricted Medical Treatment Assessment Board, and the New South Wales government's LGBTIQ+ Advisory Council.

Morgan has been contracted to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Australian Capital Territory government and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. He is a reference or advisory group member for the Australian Department of Health and Aged Care, Australian Bureau of Statistics and New South Wales Health.

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Executive Director
    InterAction for Health and Human Rights, Australia1 Dec 2016 - present
  • Board Member
    ACT Government, Variations in Sex Characteristics Restricted Medical Treatment Assessment Board, Canberra, Australia23 Dec 2023 - present
  • Council Member
    Government of New South Wales, LGBTIQA+ Advisory Council, Premier's Department, Sydney, Australia25 Oct 2024 - present

CERTIFICATIONS

  • PhD
    The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
  • M.Bioeth
    The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
  • M.InfTech
    University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia

SCHOOL

  • School of Public Health

AVAILABLE FOR MEDIA

  • Academics can be contacted directly or via media.office@sydney.edu.au

FIELDS OF RESEARCH (2020)