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Adjunct Assistant Professor
Public Health Leadership Program

Co-Chair Non-Biomedical IRB
Office of Human Research Ethics

Core Faculty
Center for Bioethics

LLB Business Law
MSB Bioethics


Louise received her LLB (Honors) Business Law Degree from London Guildhall University (United Kingdom), MS in Bioethics from Union Graduate College and admitted to practice law in New York. Originally from South Africa where she lived for 25 years, Winstanly also lived in Japan for nine years where she worked for Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP and Nishimura and Partners. In 2005, Winstanly moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Winstanly is the Chair of the Board of IntraHealth International. She is also the Chair of the University of North Carolina (UNC) Non-Biomedical Institutional Review Board and member of UNC Hospital Ethics Committee; UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health Advisory Committee; and North Carolina’s Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute’s Clinical and Community Research Ethics Core. She is also a member of the New York State Bar Association and the American Bar Association.

Louise Winstanly