Dissertation Title: "The Right to Health, the Power to Punish, and the Duty to Advocate"
Paper 1: The Right to Health and the Power to Punish
If prisoners have a moral right to health (RTH), then why should this be so? Moral rights do not depend on any...
Dissertation Title: "To Whom? Essays on Health Resource Allocation in Organ Transplantation and Substance Use Disorder Treatment Settings"
Under reasonable resource constraints, not all legitimate health needs can be met – necessitating some form of...
Dissertation Title: "Improving Migrant Health Policies and Programs: From the Normative to the Positive"
As the population of migrants continues to grow, ensuring migrant health needs are met is a global-public health priority. This dissertation examines...
Dissertation Title： "Forbidden Harms and Permissible Benefits: The Moral Status of Third Parties in Clinical Research"
The crux of this dissertation is the premise that third parties, non subjects, have moral status that ought to be recognized in the...
Dissertation Title: "Dimensions of Disadvantage: Normative and Empirical Analysis of the Effect of Public Insurance on Low-Income Children and Families"
This dissertation considers some challenges to delivering effective and equitable health care to...
Dissertation Title："Conflicts of Interest among Oncology Clinical Trial Investigators and among Patient Advocacy Organizations, and Patient Preferences and Health Care Disparities"
The first paper is entitled "Relationships Between Authorship Contributions...
Dissertation Title："Contested Boundaries: Evaluating Institutional and Government Authority in Academia and Public Health"
This dissertation explores tensions between individual freedom and institutional authority.
Chapter one examines public perceptions of...
Dissertation Title: "Cost-Effectiveness and Social Values in Health Care Priority Setting: Normative Reasons and Public Deliberation"
Paper 1 discusses the question of whether health policy should treat drugs for rare diseases (“orphan drugs”) differently...
Dissertation Title: "Empirical and Normative Implications of Social Networks for Health Disparities: The Case of Renal Transplantation"
The objective of this dissertation is to examine to what extent individual-level or social network-level...
Dissertation Title: "The Regulation of Individual Autonomy in Medical Decision-Making"
In the United States, federal and state governments affect medical decision-making through numerous direct and indirect channels. For instance, government intervention...