Jennifer J. Prah

Contends that global and national responses to health governance must be grounded in moral and ethical claims about health. Analyzes the current public health problems of a globalized world, frames the norms by which global health policy should be structured, examines the current global health architecture,

 Uses the COVID-19 pandemic to show the importance of a country’s implementing a justice framework for health and equality.

Focuses on two areas of substantial and growing importance to the human development and capability approach: health and disability. The research on disability, health and the capability approach has been diverse in the topics it covers, and the conceptual frameworks and methodologies it uses, beginning over a decade and a half ago in health and more than a decade ago in disability. Shares a set of contributions in these two areas: the first set of chapters focusing on disability; and the second set focusing on health and the health capability paradigm in particular.

Discusses some of the challenges of global health inequalities and the current global health policy system and some of the components of the provincial globalism and shared health governance frameworks.

Argues that the proper object of global health governance should be the common good, ensuring that all people have the opportunity to flourish. 

Explores a more nuanced picture of language surrounding a right to healthcare in the US law.

Pioneers an original theory of social cooperation for governing health domestically.

Develops components of a theory of global health justice, based on universal ethical norms (general duty) with shared global and domestic responsibility (specific duties) for health. Puts forth a view called ‘provincial globalism’ as a mean between nationalism and cosmopolitanism, in which a local consensus must accompany a global consensus on health morality. This account is grounded in global and national duties to promote human flourishing and, more specifically, individuals’ central health capabilities.

Offers an imaginative new theoretical framework for the analysis of health and healthcare disparities at the intersection of ethics, economics and politics in health and healthcare.

Offers a novel moral framework for analyzing health insurance, which has become increasingly important in the current health reform debate around the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. This article has been cited during legal proceedings in the Supreme Court and in California, Florida, Virginia and Michigan in support of the argument that healthcare markets are unique and therefore minimum coverage provisions are a necessary and proper means of government regulation.

Illustrates how shortfalls in healthcare quality are more meaningful than differences between socio-demographic groups. It has been cited in Milbank Quarterly and Bulletin of the World Health Organization.

Was one of the first studies to demonstrate why global health inequalities are morally troubling, why efforts to reduce them are morally justified, and how they should be measured and evaluated.