Sharon is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, Universiti Malaya, where she has designed modules on healthcare law and ethics for undergraduate as well as postgraduate students including a number of modules on the Masters of Health Research Ethics (MOHRE) at the Faculty of Medicine Her research interests primarily revolve around global health bioethics. She is keen on developing her work on migrant health ethics, particularly in relation to health research; as well as issues relating to the intersection of bioethics, law, and public policy. She is a member of the WHO Covid 19 Ethics and Governance Working Group, the Steering Committee of the Global Forum for Bioethics in Research (GFBR) and the International Expert Network of the Global Infectious Disease Ethics Collaborative (GLIDE). She is working with colleagues on a Wellcome Trust funded project to set up the Southeast Asian Bioethics Network.