Michael is Professor of Bioethics and Director of the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities, and the Ethox Centre, at the University of Oxford.

Together with partners in Africa and South East Asia he leads the Global Health Bioethics Network, which aims to embed ethics in global health research. The Network is a partnership between the University of Oxford and the Wellcome Trust Africa and Asia Programmes to conduct research on ethical aspects of global health and to build ethics capacity. A particular focus of the Network is on the ethical aspects of data sharing.