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Morgan Carpenter

Morgan Carpenter is the Executive Director of Intersex Human Rights Australia, a national charity by and for people with innate variations of sex characteristics. He is an intersex human rights defender with lived experience.

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  • 6 February 2024
Morgan Carpenter smiling looking into the camera with short brown hair, a grey-black beard and wearing a white and blue checked shirt standing in front of greenery. GATE logo
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Morgan is also a Research Affiliate and bioethicist at the University of Sydney School of Public Health, where he completed doctoral studies in bioethics in 2023. His particular interest within the intersex movement is to build community and coherent, ethical and effective infrastructure — including regulation, norms, and community-owned organizations.

Morgan has been contracted to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the World Health Organization, the Australian Capital Territory government and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. He is a reference or advisory group member for the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged CareAustralian Bureau of Statistics and New South Wales Health.

Morgan has qualifications from CoventryDublin City University, a Master of Information Technology from UTS, a Master of Bioethics from the University of Sydney Medical School, and a PhD in bioethics from the University of Sydney School of Public Health. Via Sydney Health Ethics at the University of Sydney, he is a member of the Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law.