Dr Maeghan Toews was appointed as a full-time Commissioner and commenced on 17 February 2025 to jointly lead the ALRC’s Review of Human Tissue Laws alongside ALRC President the Hon Justice Mordecai Bromberg.
Dr Toews is a legal academic specialising in health law who has spent the last decade researching the law pertaining to human biomaterials. Prior to commencing as a Lecturer at the University of Adelaide in 2017, Dr Toews completed a 2-year research fellowship examining the law of organ and tissue donation and transplantation and worked as a Research Associate at the University of Alberta’s Health Law Institute from 2013-2016.
Dr Toews holds multiple professional memberships relating to organ and tissue donation and transplantation, including the Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand, The Transplantation Society and the Canadian Donation and Transplantation Research Program. Dr Toews completed her doctoral dissertation exploring novel regulatory options for human biomaterials and has authored many peer-reviewed publications relating to donation consent frameworks, donation incentives, kidney paired donation, public solicitation of donors, HIV-positive donors, and organ trafficking and transplant tourism.