Ryoa Chung
Contributing Researcher
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Ryoa Chung is professor in the Department of Philosophy at Université de Montréal. Her fields of research include ethics in international relations, feminist studies and applied political philosophy, particularly in the field of global health. She was visiting scholar at École Normale Supérieure de Fontenay/Saint-Cloud (Paris), Columbia University, Harvard School of Public Health, and visiting professor at Lyon 3.
She has published in such journals as Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy; Public Health Ethics; Revue internationale de sociologie; Medicine, Conflict and Survival; Journal of Medical Ethics and in collective works
including Bioethics in Canada (Oxford University Press, 2013). She co-edited the book Éthique des relations internationales (Presses universitaires de France, 2013).
Her work as member of international research teams have been funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and the Wellcome Trust. Her individual research is currently funded by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Related Research publications
January 19, 2022
Addressing Economic Racism in Canada’s Pandemic Response and Recovery
In the beginning of the pandemic, COVID-19 was said to be “the great equalizer”, impacting people across all walks of life. Now, well-documented racial health inequities for COVID-19 have proven otherwise, and it shouldn’t have been a surprise. Racial inequities have been found for nearly every health outcome.