Lara Killham Walter
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Lara Killham Walter
Probationer Research Student
Lara joined the Ethox Centre as a DPhil Candidate in Population Health in October, 2025. Her DPhil research focuses on ethical issues in collective action on infectious disease aimed at protecting human and animal health, as well as the environment. She is supervised by Professor Michael Parker and Dr Tess Johnson.
She has previously worked as a policy officer in the Victorian Department of Health, a research assistant at The Ethics Centre - a non-profit centre for applied ethics, and in an advisory capacity on committees across multiple research organisations internationally.
She holds a Master of Bioethics from the University of Sydney and a BA in Philosophy from the University of Melbourne. Her work is supported by an Oxford-PSI Alexander Thomson Graduate Scholarship.