Jonathan Liberman is an Associate Professor in Law and Global Health at Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne. He holds degrees in Arts and Law with first class honours from Monash University and a Master of Public and International Law. With over twenty-five years of experience in legal, regulatory, and policy research, teaching, advice, training, and capacity-building related to health at global and domestic levels, his work focuses on the relationships between law and public and global health. Prior to joining the University, he was the Founding Director of the McCabe Centre for Law and Cancer, serving from February 2012 to March 2020. Under his leadership, the McCabe Centre became a WHO Collaborating Centre for Law and Non-Communicable Diseases, a WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Knowledge Hub, and developed an international legal training program that builds capacity and expertise among government officials in using law for the prevention and control of cancer and other non-communicable diseases, particularly in developing policy coherence between health, trade, investment, human rights, and sustainable development.

Jonathan's research interests encompass tobacco control, access to medicines and vaccines, infectious disease prevention and control, concussion in sport, and global governance of pandemics and other international health emergencies. He examines the interactions between international and domestic legal instruments and processes designed to protect and promote public health with other legal frameworks across international trade, intellectual property, international investment, human rights, climate change and environment, and privacy. Jonathan has published extensively on these topics and brings together evidence and experts from diverse disciplines to develop and advocate for evidence-based legal, regulatory, and policy approaches that promote public health. He was a member of the Australian Government's Expert Advisory Group on Plain Packaging and the International Agency for Research on Cancer Working Group on Social Inequalities and Cancer, and serves on the University of Melbourne's STEMM Human Ethics Committee. In 2017, he received the prestigious World No Tobacco Day Award from the World Health Organization Western Pacific Regional Office for his outstanding contribution to tobacco control.

Professional Email: jonathan.liberman@unimelb.edu.au