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Doctoral Projects

Choose a DPhil project for starting in October 2026

Applications for entry in October 2026 open on 8 September and close at noon on 2 December 2025. For information on how to apply, please see the DPhil in Population Health section of the Oxford Population Health website.

Balancing digital health benefits with environmental justice: Ethical and empirical explorations in planetary health informatics

Ethical justification of post-market monitoring of medical AI

GenAI in drug discovery for underrepresented populations: ethical and epistemological implications

Global guidance, local ethics: how international organisations shape ethical decision-making in public health emergencies

Good governance in the era of clinical trial innovation

Governing the Dead: Ethics, Justice, and Public Health in Pandemic Response

Invisible health inequalities: indirect discrimination and the life course approach

We also welcome applications for projects relating to any of our main areas of research interest. If you would like to apply for a DPhil based on your own research proposal, please see the instructions on the DPhil in Population Health section of the Oxford Population Health website.

Current ongoing Projects

Eth-Mud (Ethics Muda/Young Ethics): Young People’s Perspectives on The Ethics of Digital Mental Health in Indonesia

Navigating ethical issues affecting care continuity during biomedical research on neglected diseases of poverty in sub-Saharan Africa

Personalised mental health and religious ethics

An Investigation of the Professional and Ethical Obligations of Healthcare Professionals Who Offer NIPT in the UK

Supporting families before birth: a qualitative study of parents’ and health care professionals’ experiences

Past Projects

Medicine Quality and Maternal Health: Examining Real-World Ethical Concerns for Frontline Healthcare Staff in the Context of Uncertainty

When Quality is Uncertain: Ethical Dilemmas of Decision-Makers Determining Availability of Medical Products in Global HealthAn ethics account of global health security

Everyday ethical challenges in the context of older adult residential care provided by migrant care givers in the UK

How might we understand the implementation of restrictive policies towards harmful products in the context of NCDs? Arguing for a shift in ethical perspectives in health policy: a political perfectionist approach.

Improving access to human milk for vulnerable infants in resource-limited health systems: Ethics and implementation of human milk banks in sub-Saharan Africa