Rate My Professor Sarah Bush

Dr. Bush's teaching encompasses bioethics education for students in medicine, pharmacy, and physiotherapy. She is involved in curriculum development, coordinates and supports other tutors, and teaches Early Professional Experience (EPE) to Year 2 and Year 3 medical students. She has served on the University of Otago Human Research Ethics Committee for over six years, applying her expertise as a medical doctor, teacher, and ethicist to review health research proposals. Her research specializations include public health ethics, bioethics, and health law. She plans to pursue a PhD with a focus on public health ethics, interested in how health issues affecting New Zealanders are defined and portrayed, given their significant impacts on New Zealand society as a whole. This includes examining the potential need to shift from a libertarian framework emphasizing individual responsibility to a more communitarian, public health-centred approach.

Dr. Bush co-authored the peer-reviewed article titled "If you don't eat meat... you'll die: A mixed-method survey of health-professionals' beliefs," published in Nutrients in 2019 (McHugh, P., Smith, M., Wright, N. S., Bush, S., & Pullon, S.).