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Andrew Crowden (b.1955) Andrew Driscoll Crowden is an Australian Bioethicist who specialises in the field of Human Research Ethics and Aboriginal Torres Straight Islander Human Research Ethics. He is currently Associate Professor of Philosophy at the The University of Queensland’s School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne and an Adjunct Professor at the University of the Sunshine Coast (USC) where he is Chairperson of the Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) and Chairperson of the Animal Ethics Committee. He is also Deputy Chair of the AIATSIS Research Ethics Committee.

Andrew has been research ethics stream leader for the Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law, Chairperson of Townsville Hospital and Health Service HREC, Chairperson of Mater Health Services HREC, member of the Mater Clinical Ethics Committee, member of NHMRC’s Harmonisation of Multi-Centre Ethical Review (HoMER) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ Research Group and the HoMER Monitoring Subgroup, Deputy Chair of the Victorian Government Ministerial Consultative Council for Human Research Ethics, Chairperson of Austin Health HREC, Bioethicist on Northeast Health HREC, the appointed Ethicist on the South Australian Government Human Research Subcommittee, Chair of the Rural Health Academic Centre’s Human Ethics Advisory Group at the University of Melbourne, and the Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences Dean’s nominee to Deakin University HREC.

Andrew’s research in philosophy, ethics and genomics is funded by the University of Queensland, the Queensland Genomic Health Alliance and the John Templeton Foundation in collaboration with the University of Virginia and QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute.

Early Life
Crowden was born in Peterborough, England on 21 August 1955 to Dorothy Rose Crowden nee Driscoll (b.1929) and Ernest Edward Crowden (c.1920-1991). His mother was a nurse and his father was a Stoker in the British Navy during WWII and later after emigrating to Australia in 1859 he became the Secretary of the South Australian Engineers Union. Crowden was presented with a certificate for crossing "Davie Jones Locker" on the 4th of July 1955 on his way to Adelaide, South Australia.

Crowden attended Saint Ignatius' College, Adelaide and played for Norwood Football Club with Neil Craig. Craig reportedly said to Crowden "Don't you worry about anything Crow-bar. If you get the footy, you just kick it to me". Crowden studied classical guitar for one year at the Elder Conservatorium of Music before dropping out to travel the south-Australian coast in a combi-van surfing and songwriting and thinking. He later went back to Adelaide University to study Nursing where he developed an interest in Bioethics.

Early Career
Crowden has PhD and Master’s degrees from the Bioethics Centre at Monash University. His supervisor at Monash University was renowned ethicist Peter Singer. Crowden began his academic teaching career at Deakin University, Warrnambool and then moved to The University of Melbourne School of Rural Health in Wangaratta, before moving to The University of Melbourne, Parkville Campus in 2005.

Family
Crowden married Janet Elizabeth Crowden (b.1961) in 1986 and recently celebrated their 35th Wedding Anniversary. They raised four children: David (b.1986), Hannah (b.1988) & Simon (b.1991) and adopted Okenyi "George" Yengi (b. 1986) in 2002.