Nir Eyal, DPhil
Open to Doctoral Students
Biography
Nir Eyal, D.Phil., is the inaugural Henry Rutgers Professor of Bioethics as well as the inaugural Dr. and Mrs. Stanley S. Bergen Professor of Bioethics in the Department of Health Behavior, Society, and Policy at the Rutgers School of Public Health. He is also a faculty member within the Rutgers Institute for Health and the Rutgers Department of Philosophy. Between 2019-2024, he directed the Center for Population-Level Bioethics. Dr. Eyal’s research focuses primarily on population-level bioethics, including ethics in health security and pandemic response, the ethical allocation of (human) resources for health, ethical health promotion policy, and the ethics of research on human participants.
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); ethical issues in research on human participants (e.g. in HIV cure trials, HIV treatment-as-prevention trials, vaccine trials for emerging infections, human challenge trials, and health policy research); and the ethics of prevention (identified vs. statistical lives, preventing health security threats). His philosophical research outside of bioethics addresses egalitarian theory, self-ownership, respect for persons, democratic deliberation, and consequentialism.