ELIANA CLOSE

Dr Eliana Close is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at Queensland University of Technology and a member of the Australian Centre for Health Law Research. Her research examines end-of-life law, policy, and clinical practice, with a particular focus on voluntary assisted dying and non-beneficial treatment. From 2020 to 2025, she led a Canadian case study on medical assistance in dying as part of Professor Ben White’s Australian Research Council Future Fellowship project, Optimal Regulation of Voluntary Assisted Dying. Her work has contributed to voluntary assisted dying law reform in Australia and to improving health professionals’ understanding of how end-of-life law operates in practice.