GHGA Lecture Series: Barbara Prainsack (virtual)

• 23 May 2022

Professor Barbara Prainsack from the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna talked about "How can data-driven practices in biomedicine contribute to healthy societies? Empirical and healthy conceptual considerations" at the GHGA lecture series ("Advances in Data-Driven Biomedicine") on May 23, 2022.

Watch this lecture here.

Biography:

Barbara Prainsack is a professor and Head of Department at the Department of Political Science at the University Vienna, where she also directs the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Solidarity (CeSCoS), and the interdisciplinary Research Platform “Governance of Digital Practices”. Her work explores the social, ethical, and regulatory dimensions of genetic and data-driven practices and technologies in biomedicine and forensics. She holds honorary positions at the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Sydney, at the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine at King’s College London, at the Centre de recherche en éthique (CRE), University of Montreal, Canada, and at the Centre for Health, Law, and Emerging Technologies (HeLEX) at the University of Oxford. Her latest books are: Personalized Medicine: Empowered Patients in the 21st Century? (New York University Press, 2017), and The Pandemic Within: Policy Making for a Better World (with H. Wagenaar, Policy Press, 2021).