Jennifer Prah Ruger, Ph.D., M.Sc.
Associate Professor
Division of Health Policy and Administration
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Dr. Ruger is an Interdisciplinary Research Methods Core Investigator for the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS and former Co-Director of the Yale/World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Health Promotion, Policy and Research. She has authored numerous theoretical and empirical studies on the equity and efficiency of health system access, financing, resource allocation, policy reform and the social determinants of health. These contributions are unified by an overarching interest in equity and disparities in health and health care, focusing on vulnerable and impoverished populations. Her work has been published in Lancet; American Journal of Public Health; British Medical Journal; Quarterly Journal of Medicine; Academic Emergency Medicine; Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities; Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health; Health Affairs; and Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. She served previously at the World Bank as health economist and speechwriter to president James D. Wolfensohn and on the health and development satellite secretariat of WHO Director-General Gro Harlem Brundtland’s Transition Team.
Education
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1998
M.Sc., Oxford University, 1992
Awards and Honors
Donaghue Investigator Award, 2007
Career Development Award, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
2005 Labelle Lectureship in Health Services Research
Bell Fellowship, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
Special Guest, The Brookings Institution
Professional Services
Member, Ethics Subcommittee, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Temporary Member/Ad Hoc Reviewer, Study Section, National Institutes of Health, 2009
External Reviewer, Research Grants Council of Hong Kong
Program Chair, American Public Health Association Ethics Forum
Coordinator, Health and Disability Thematic Group, Human Development and Capability Association
External Reviewer, Swiss National Science Foundation
External Reviewer, Israel National Institute for Health Policy and Health Services Research
Courses Taught
GHD 595b/LAW 21165 Social, Economic, and Political Dimensions of Development
HPA599/INRL 524/LAW 21595/PHIL 658/PLSC 594 Global Health Ethics, Politics, and Economics
Current Research Projects
Economic Evaluation of HIV/AIDS Prevention Among Drug Using Women; Economic Evaluation of Smoking Cessation Among Low-income Pregnant Women; Economics of Drug Counseling and Abstinent-Contingent Take-Home Buprenorphine in Malaysia; Health Financing and Insurance Reform in Morocco; Political Economy of Health and Healthcare in the Republic of Korea; Health and Social Justice; Global Health Governance; World Bank and Global Health; Global Health Justice.
Yale Affiliations
Senior Research Fellow, International Affairs Council, the MacMillan Center
Scholar, Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, Institute for Social and Policy Studies
Center for Nicotine and Tobacco Use Research/Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center
Affiliated Faculty, Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity
Faculty Appointment, Law School
In the News
Donaghue Investigator Award Bestowed on Ruger
Ruger Co-authors Paper Exploring Morocco's Expanded Health Insurance Coverage and the Future Potential of Reducing Health Financing Gaps
Ruger Receives the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale Director’s Award
Ruger Study Finds Poor and Chronically Ill in Korea Pay More for Healthcare
Ruger Study Finds Health Inequalities are a Growing Problem
Selected Publications
Ruger, J.P. and Kim, H. Out-of-Pocket Healthcare Spending by the Poor and Chronically Ill in the Republic of Korea. American Journal of Public Health 97(5): 804-811, 2007.
Ruger, J.P. and Kim, H. Global Health Inequalities: An International Comparison. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 60:928-936, 2006.
Ruger, J.P. Measuring Disparities in Healthcare. British Medical Journal 333: 274, 2006.
Ruger, J.P. Toward a Theory of a Right to Health: Capability and Incompletely Theorized Agreements. Yale Journal of Law and Humanities 18: 273-326, 2006.
Ruger, J.P. Health, Capability, and Justice: Toward a New Paradigm of Health Ethics, Policy and Law. Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy 15(2): 403-482, 2006.
Ruger, J.P. Changing Role of the World Bank in Global Health. American Journal of Public Health 95(1): 60-70, 2005.
Ruger, J.P. Health and Social Justice. Lancet 364(9439): 1075-1080, 2004.
Ruger, J.P. Ethics of the Social Determinants of Health. Lancet 364(9439): 1092-1097, 2004.
For a further list of Dr. Ruger’s publications, please see PubMed. |
