Ben White

Ben White is Professor of End-of-Life Law and Regulation and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the School of Law, Queensland University of Technology. He was a foundation Director of the Australian Centre for Health Law Research and still co-leads its End-of-Life Research Program. Ben has been researching end-of-life law, policy and practice for over 20 years and been part of interdisciplinary teams awarded $A66 million in the field of end-of-life decision-making, including from the Australian Research Council, the National Health and Medical Research Council, Commonwealth and State governments and philanthropic organisations. Ben’s research now focuses on voluntary assisted dying (VAD). Current projects include an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship on ‘Optimal Regulation of Voluntary Assisted Dying’ in Australia, Canada and Belgium; a national Australian Research Council-funded study of VAD in practice, and an exploratory study of dementia and VAD. He (with colleagues) developed the mandatory training in Victoria, Western Australia and Queensland for clinicians providing VAD. Ben is the editor of Research Handbook on Voluntary Assisted Dying Law, Regulation and Practice (Edward Elgar, 2025), a 36-chapter collection which aims to analyse the field of VAD globally.