Jennifer Prah Ruger MSc, PhD
Associate Professor of Public Health (Health Policy) and Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Law
Research Summary
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. Her research and scholarship is in public health and health policy and focuses at the intersection of ethics, economics, and politics in health and health care. Her research and scholarship includes areas such as global health justice; global health governance; health and social justice; health financing and insurance; health, health systems, and economic development; and the economic and ethical evaluation of addiction programs and emergency and humanitarian services. Her research is conducted nationally and internationally, including work in India, Indonesia, Malawi, Malaysia, Morocco, South Africa, South Korea, the United States and Vietnam. These contributions are unified by an overarching interest in disparities and equity in health and health care, focusing on vulnerable and impoverished populations at the national and global level. She has published both theoretical and empirical work on equity and efficiency of health system access, financing, resource allocation, policy reform and the social determinants of health.
Extensive Research Description
Dr. Ruger's research focuses at the intersection of ethics, economics, and politics in health and health care. Her scholarship includes areas such as global health justice; global health governance; health and social justice; health financing and insurance; health, health systems, and economic development; and the economic and ethical evaluation of addiction programs and emergency and humanitarian services. Her research is conducted nationally and internationally, including work in India, Indonesia, Malawi, Malaysia, Morocco, South Africa, South Korea, the United States and Vietnam. These contributions are unified by an overarching interest in disparities and equity in health and health care at the national and global level. She has published both theoretical and empirical work on equity and efficiency of health system access, financing, resource allocation, policy reform and the social determinants of health.
Dr. Ruger’s work has been published by Lancet; British Medical Journal; American Journal of Public Health; Quarterly Journal of Medicine; Academic Emergency Medicine; Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities; Bulletin of the World Health Organization; Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health; Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy; Health Affairs; Value Health; Social Science and Medicine; American Journal of Bioethics; Public Health Ethics; Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law; and Clarendon Press of Oxford University Press.
Selected Publications
- Ruger JP and Emmons KM. Economic Evaluations of Smoking Cessation and Relapse Prevention Programs for Pregnant Women: A Systematic Review. Value in Health 11(2): 180-190, 2008.
- Ruger JP. Global Health Governance and the World Bank. Lancet 370: 1471-1474, 2007. (Published in Council of Science Editor's Special Global Theme Issue on Global Poverty and Human Development and featured as a highlight of that week's issue on Lancet Podcast).
- Ruger JP, Kress D. Health Financing and Insurance Reform in Morocco. Health Affairs 26(4): 1009-1016, 2007. (Published in first ever Theme Issue on Global Health, entitled, "Financing and Improving Global Health Care" and focus of National Press Club briefing, Washington, DC).
- Ruger JP, Lewis LM, and Richter CJ. “Identifying High-Risk Patients for Triage and Resource Allocation in the ED,” The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2007; 25(7): 794-8.
- Ruger JP. “Moral Foundations of Health Insurance,” Quarterly Journal of Medicine, 2007; 100(1): 53-7.
- Ruger JP. “Health, Health Care, and Incompletely Theorized Agreements: A Normative Theory ofHealth-Policy Decision-Making,” Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law, 2007; 32(1): 51-87.
- Ruger JP. Rethinking Equal Access: Agency, Quality and Norms. Global Public Health 2(1): 78-96, 2007.
- 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 JP. Toward a Theory of a Right to Health: Capability and Incompletely Theorized Agreements. Yale Journal of Law and Humanities 18: 273-326, 2006.
Selected Publications
- Ruger JP and Emmons KM. Economic Evaluations of Smoking Cessation and Relapse Prevention Programs for Pregnant Women: A Systematic Review. Value in Health 11(2): 180-190, 2008.
- Ruger JP. Global Health Governance and the World Bank. Lancet 370: 1471-1474, 2007. (Published in Council of Science Editor's Special Global Theme Issue on Global Poverty and Human Development and featured as a highlight of that week's issue on Lancet Podcast).
- Ruger JP, Kress D. Health Financing and Insurance Reform in Morocco. Health Affairs 26(4): 1009-1016, 2007. (Published in first ever Theme Issue on Global Health, entitled, "Financing and Improving Global Health Care" and focus of National Press Club briefing, Washington, DC).
- Ruger JP, Lewis LM, and Richter CJ. “Identifying High-Risk Patients for Triage and Resource Allocation in the ED,” The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2007; 25(7): 794-8.
- Ruger JP. “Moral Foundations of Health Insurance,” Quarterly Journal of Medicine, 2007; 100(1): 53-7.
- Ruger JP. “Health, Health Care, and Incompletely Theorized Agreements: A Normative Theory ofHealth-Policy Decision-Making,” Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law, 2007; 32(1): 51-87.
- Ruger JP. Rethinking Equal Access: Agency, Quality and Norms. Global Public Health 2(1): 78-96, 2007.
- 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 JP. 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 JP. Ethics and Governance of Global Health Inequalities. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 60(11): 998-1003, 2006.
- Ruger JP. Global Tobacco Control: An Integrated Approach to Global Health Policy. Development 48(2): 65-69, 2005.
- Ruger, J.P. Measuring Disparities in Healthcare. British Medical Journal 333: 274, 2006
- Ruger, J.P. Changing Role of the World Bank in Global Health. American Journal of Public Health 95(1): 60-70, 2005
- Ruger JP, Richter CJ, Spitznagel EL, and Lewis LM. “Analysis of Costs, Length of Stay, and Utilization of Emergency Department Services by Frequent Users: Implications for Health Policy,” Academic Emergency Medicine, 2004; 11(12): 1311-7.
- Ruger JP. “Millennium Development Goals for Health: Building Human Capabilities,” Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2004; 82(12): 951-2.
- 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
