Rate My Professor Jing-Bao Nie

Professor Jing-Bao Nie holds the position of Professor in the Department of Bioethics within the Dunedin School of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, at the University of Otago. Originating from a remote village in southern China, he was initially trained as a physician in Chinese medicine before pursuing studies in sociology in Canada and medical humanities and bioethics in the United States. His academic qualifications include a BMed and MMed from Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, an MA from Queen’s University, and a PhD from the University of Texas Medical Branch. Nie's career features distinguished appointments such as Furong Visiting Professor at Hunan Normal University (2009-2012), Adjunct Professor at Peking University Health Science Center (2009-2018) and Wuhan University (since 2003), Visiting Professor/Scholar at Yale University (2018), Visiting Scholar at Harvard University (2018), Free University Berlin (2014), National University of Singapore (2008), and others, along with Associate status at Harvard Asia Center (2015-2017). He has received the University of Otago Early Career Award for Distinction in Research (2005), Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Minnesota Center for Bioethics (1998-1999), Fellowship at The Hastings Center (2011-present), Durham University Institute of Advanced Study Fellowship (2019-2020), and Barbro Klein Fellowship at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (2025).

Professor Nie's research specializes in transcultural and global bioethics, bioethics in China and Asia, Confucianism, social sciences and bioethics, and medical humanities, pioneering the methodological approach of 'ethical transculturalism.' Current projects explore Confucianism regarding aging and eldercare, humane biopolitics, and global health. Key publications include authored books Medical Ethics in China (Routledge) and Behind the Silence: Chinese Voices on Abortion (Rowman & Littlefield), co-edited Japan's Wartime Medical Atrocities (Routledge), and contributions to Global Health: Ethical Challenges, Routledge Handbook of Feminist Bioethics, Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics, and three chapters in Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics. Articles appear in The Lancet, Nature, American Journal of Bioethics, Hastings Center Report, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, and others. His work has secured Marsden Fund grants (twice), Harvard China Fund support, and collaborations on UK Wellcome Trust and US NIH projects. Nie has delivered over 100 keynote and invited addresses internationally, served on the WHO Working Group for Clinical Ethics Guidance (2023-2025), co-chaired the 6th International Congress of Feminist Bioethics (2008), and sits on editorial/advisory boards of journals like Bioethics, Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, and Asian Bioethics Review. His scholarship has been lauded as a landmark contribution and featured in global media.