Global Health Justice:
Bridging Theory & Practice
Participant List:
Gabriela Arguedas-Ramírez
Gabriela Arguedas-Ramírez is an Associate Professor in Bioethics & Human Rights at the University of Costa Rica. Her research interests are in feminism, bioethics, human rights and the philosophy of medicine.
Ryoa Chung
Ryoa Chung is Co-Director of the Center for Research in Ethics and Professor at the Department of Philosophy at the Université de Montréal. Her fields of research are ethics in international relations and applied political philosophy, particularly in the field of global health. She is also interested in feminist perspectives in the field of international ethics. With a group of colleagues, she co-founded the Réseau de perspectives féministes à Université de Montréal and contributed to the creation of the undergraduate program « mineure en études féministes, des genres et des sexualités » (2017).
Rainer Forst
Rainer Forst is Professor of Political Theory and Philosophy and Director of the Research Center “Normative Orders” at Goethe University Frankfurt. His research focuses on questions of justice, democracy and toleration as well as critical theory and practical reason in the Kantian tradition. In 2012 he was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation. He is a Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. Important publications include: Contexts of Justice (dt. Suhrkamp 1994, engl. Univ. of California Press, 2002), Toleration in Conflict ( Suhrkamp 2003, engl. Cambridge UP, 2013), The Right to Justification (Suhrkamp 2007, engl. Columbia UP, 2012), Justification and Critique (Suhrkamp 2011, engl. Polity, 2013), Normativity and Power (Suhrkamp 2015, engl. Oxford UP 2017) and Die noumenale Republik (Suhrkamp 2021, engl. Polity 2024).
Tereza Hendl
Tereza Hendl is a post-doc at the University of Augsburg. She holds a PhD in Philosophy from Macquarie University, Australia. Her dissertation explored the ethics of prenatal sex selection for social reasons. She has previously worked as a Research Associate at the University of Sydney on an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project investigating how young people with impairment resist ableism in their transition to adulthood. She has conducted research as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Sydney Health Ethics and a Honorary Fellow at the University of Melbourne on the ARC Linkage Project “Regulating autologous stem cell therapies in Australia,” an interdisciplinary project that promoted ethical and socially responsible innovation with stem cells.
Anuj Kapilashrami
Anuj Kapilashrami is an interdisciplinary social scientist trained in Sociology and Public Health. She is Professor in Global Health Policy and Equity and Director of the Centre for Global Health & Intersectional Equity Research at University of Essex. Her work lies at the intersections of health policy and development praxis, with particular interest in the social and structural determinants of health, and the rights and equity implications of global public health policy and governance. She has published widely on health inequalities and other areas of health policy and systems (e.g. governance of global health, Public-private partnerships) in leading journals as well as an edited volume on Global Health Governance and Commercialisation of Public Health in India with Routledge.
Mandisa Mbali
Mandisa Mbali is an Associate Professor in Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town. Her main research interest is in health policy and activism, considered historically, as interrelated phenomena, both transnationally and within South Africa. She has explored this theme in book chapters and journal articles on AIDS activism and policies, health, gender and sexuality and the politics of race and ethics in international health. In 2013 she published her scholarly monograph South African AIDS Activism and Global Health Politics with Palgrave Macmillan as part of their Global Ethics series. More recently, her work has analysed transnational debates over apartheid and medical humanitarianism in late twentieth century South Africa.
Darrel Moellendorf
Darrel Moellendorf holds the Chair for International Political Theory and Philosophy at Goethe University Frankfurt. He is a political theorist and an environmental, moral, and political philosopher. He is the author of Cosmopolitan Justice (2002) Global Inequality Matters (2009), The Moral Challenge of Dangerous Climate Change (2014) and Mobilizing Hope (2022).
Ndidi Nwaneri
Ndidi Nwaneri is a trained philosopher and social development policy expert. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Global Health Justice postdoctoral program at Goethe University. She received her doctorate from Loyola University, Chicago with her dissertation titled "Human Rights and Global Justice: A Normative Critique of Some Rawlsian Approaches." Her current research project is titled, "Pandemic Agency and Justice: A Socio-Political Analysis of the Global COVID-19 Pandemic."
Jennifer J. Prah
Jennifer J. Prah is a leading global scholar of domestic and global health policy and public health. She conducts theoretical and empirical studies of health equity to address global and national health inequities, especially among women and children. Professor Prah founded and directs the Health Equity and Policy Lab (HEPL), a mixed methods lab that studies public health and health and social policy issues such as the equity and efficiency of health system access, financing, resource allocation, policy reform, and the social determinants of health. Her research is conducted internationally and nationally, including work in Germany, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Malawi, Malaysia, Morocco, South Korea, South Africa, Taiwan, the United States, and Vietnam.
Romina Rekers
Romina Rekers is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Graz. She is leading the project “A Political Conception of Transitional Justice” funding by the FWF. She is leading the "Climate-health adaptation strategies in South America" and "Women's participation in climate-sensitive infectious diseases policy in South America" projects at the Oxford-Johns Hopkins Global Infectious Disease Ethics Collaborative. She is a lawyer by training. Her research has been supported by grants from the Argentine Council for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET) and the Austrian Academic of Sciences (ÖAW).
Christian Schemmel
Christian Schemmel is a Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at MANCEPT, University of Manchester. Before joining the University of Manchester, he was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies "Justitia Amplificata - Rethinking Justice", Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, and a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence. His recent book Justice and Egalitarian Relations (Oxford, 2021) develops a liberal conception of relational equality, which understands equal non-domination and the prevention of inegalitarian norms of social status as stringent demands of social justice, and explores its implications for political equality, distributive justice, and health and healthcare.
Cain Shelley
Cain Shelley is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. Before that, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Global Health Justice postdoctoral program at Goethe University. He received his PhD in political theory/philosophy from the London School of Economics in 2022 for a dissertation on "Justice & Class Consciousness." His research concentrates on the philosophy of social justice activism.
Sridhar Venkatapuram
Sridhar Venkatapuram is an Associate Professor in Global Health and Philosophy, and Deputy Director of King's Global Health Institute. He is an academic-practitioner in the area of global health ethics and justice. Sridhar has been at the forefront of global health for over 25 years starting as a researcher at Human Rights Watch documenting HIV/AIDS related abuses in India in 1994. He has degrees in international relations (Brown), history (SOAS), global public health (Harvard), sociology (Cambridge), and political philosophy (Cambridge).
Amadeus Ulrich
Amadeus Ulrich is a doctoral student and research associate at the Institute of Political Science at Goethe University Frankfurt and the Research Centre »Normative Orders.« In his thesis »The Tyranny of the Real,« supervised by Rainer Forst and David Estlund, he develops an immanent critique of three variations of realism in political philosophy. He also works on the liberalism of fear, critical theory, and theories of justice.
Yijie Wang
Yijie Wang is a doctoral student at the Institute of Political Science at Goethe University, supervised by Darrel Moellendorf. Her research focuses on global health justice and bioethics. In her PhD thesis, she concerns herself with the ethical framework for global COVID-19 vaccine distribution. She aims to defend an ethical framework that is both theoretically defensible and practically feasible by investigating the theoretical foundation for the global framework, the justification of each ethical value and distributive principle, and the compatibility of multi-values and -principles.
Andreas Wulf
Andreas Wulf trained as a medical doctor at the Free University Berlin, Germany, from 1987 to 1994. After working briefly in the Treatment Centre for Torture Victims in Berlin and in Trauma Surgery in a regional hospital in Potsdam, he joined Medico International as Medical Project Coordinator and Health Policy Advisor. At Medico, Andreas has organised events, including a conference on patents, patients and profits in Berlin. He is a Steering Committee Member of the People’s Health Movement and Board Member of the Geneva Global Health Hub.
Anna C. Zielinska
Anna C. Zielinska is a moral, legal and political philosopher at the University of Lorraine, in Nancy, France & at Sciences Po Paris (European Franco-German campus in Nancy). Her current research focuses primarily on the analysis of decision procedures in the biomedical context. She is trying to figure out what arguments are being used by ethics committees, the legislators and practitioners in the process of decision making. Her fields of investigation are biomedical research, assisted human reproduction techniques and policies, and genetics.