Henry Rutgers Professor of Bioethics
Dr. and Mrs. Stanley S. Bergen Jr. Professor of Bioethics
Core Faculty, Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research
Dr. Nir Eyal is the Henry Rutgers Professor of Bioethics and Dr. and Mrs. Stanley S. Bergen Jr. Professor of Bioethics. He is a member of the faculty of the Rutgers School of Public Health’s Department of Health Behavior, Society and Policy, and of the Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Philosophy.
Dr. Eyal received his early training in his home country of Israel, and his DPhil in Politics from Oxford University. He underwent post-doctoral training at the NIH Department of Clinical Bioethics and the Princeton University Center for Human Values. Immediately before joining Rutgers, Dr. Eyal worked for thirteen years at Harvard Medical School and T. H. Chan School of Public Health, with affiliations at the Law School and Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and a 2010 visitorship at the E. J. Safra Center for Ethics.
Research Interests: The work of Dr. Eyal engages a broad range of bioethical issues, especially in population-level bioethics. Among other things he worked on equitable resource allocation (e.g. health care rationing in resource-poor settings, priority-setting on the path to universal health coverage, disaster triage, and allocating human resources for health); ethical issues in health promotion (e.g. paternalistic health policies, “nudging” for health, personal responsibility for health, electronic adherence monitoring); and ethical issues in research on human participants (e.g. in HIV curative trials, in HIV treatment-as-prevention trials, in vaccine trials for emerging infections, in challenge trials, and in health policy research); and in biosafety and biosecurity. His philosophical research outside of bioethics addresses egalitarian theory, self-ownership, respect for persons, social risk, and consequentialism.
Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=unBPBTYAAAAJ&hl=en
