I apply legal, philosophical, and social-scientific methods to challenges in health care and public health, including: - the fair allocation of scarce medical resources, such as novel medications, intensive care beds, and pandemic countermeasures - decisions about how to price and finance access to medicines and other health care interventions, including health technology assessment and cost-effectiveness analysis - the design of health insurance and social insurance arrangements, such as Medicare, Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act, and analogous programs abroad - the implementation of public health interventions such as wastewater surveillance and incentives to reduce pandemic spread - ethical oversight of biomedical research, in particular payment of research participants I also have research interests in other areas of professional ethics, including legal and business ethics; in tort, contract, and antidiscrimination law; and in social and political philosophy (especially distributive justice, deliberative democracy, and population ethics)
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health law, antidiscrimination law, equality law, equal protection, torts, contracts, bioethics, applied ethics, public health ethics, research ethics, legal ethics, business ethics, scarce medical resources, rationing, allocation, public health, health technology assessment, cost-effectiveness analysis, health policy, science policy, innovation policy, social philosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of race, philosophy of economics, social mobility, economic mobility
