Tracey Evans 
CHAN

 
Associate Professor

Director (NUS Law Academy)

Tracey Evans Chan specialises in biomedical law and ethics. He has published in the field both locally and internationally, and served in a number of Singapore expert committees on matters such as surrogacy, transplant ethics, human-animal combinations in biomedical research and mitochondrial germline modification. Professionally, he was called to the Singapore Bar in 1998 and then spent two years clerking for the Supreme Court of Singapore before joining academia. He concluded a year-long secondment to the Singapore Ministry of Health as a Deputy Director in the Regulatory Policy and Legislation Division in 2015, where he assisted in the policy work on the Human Biomedical Research Act 2015. He currently sits on the Singapore Ministry of Health’s National Medical Ethics Committee and Advisory Committee on Restricted Research under the Human Biomedical Research Act, and is also a member of the NUS Institutional Review Board.

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Contact

(65) 6516-3646
FED-02-27

Education

LLM (Harvard); LLB (NUS); Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore)

Curriculum Vitae

Current Courses

Public Health Law and Regulation

Tracey Evans Chan specialises in biomedical law and ethics. He has published in the field both locally and internationally, and served in a number of Singapore expert committees on matters such as surrogacy, transplant ethics, human-animal combinations in biomedical research and mitochondrial germline modification. Professionally, he was called to the Singapore Bar in 1998 and then spent two years clerking for the Supreme Court of Singapore before joining academia. He concluded a year-long secondment to the Singapore Ministry of Health as a Deputy Director in the Regulatory Policy and Legislation Division in 2015, where he assisted in the policy work on the Human Biomedical Research Act 2015. He currently sits on the Singapore Ministry of Health’s National Medical Ethics Committee and Advisory Committee on Restricted Research under the Human Biomedical Research Act, and is also a member of the NUS Institutional Review Board.

Book Chapters
Tracey Evans Chan, 'Advance Medical Directives in Singapore: A Faltering Policy for End-of-Life Care' in Daisy Cheung and Michael Dunn (eds), Advance Directives Across Asia: A Comparative Socio-legal Analysis (Cambridge University Press 2023) 40

Tracey Evans Chan, 'Reflections on Mitochondrial Replacement Technology' in The Future of Bioethics in Singapore (Bioethics Advisory Committee Singapore 2021) 138

Journal Articles
Tracey Evans Chan and Benny Tan, 'Biomedical Law and Ethics' (2022) 23 Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review of Singapore Cases

Tracey Evans Chan and Benny Tan, 'Biomedical Law and Ethics' (2021) 22 Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review of Singapore Cases 142

Tracey Evans Chan and Benny Tan, 'Biomedical Law and Ethics' (2020) 21 Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review of Singapore Cases 161

  • Biomedical Law and Ethics
  • Public Health Law