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Jennifer Ruger, Ph.D.
blue arrow Assistant Professor, Epidemiology & Public Health
blue arrow Investigator, Interdisciplinary Research Methods Core

Contact:
blue arrow Ph: (203) 785-3710
Jennifer Ruger


Brief Bio:
Dr. Ruger is Co-Director of the Yale/World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Health Promotion, Policy and Research and an Interdisciplinary Research Methods (IRM) Core Investigator for CIRA. She has authored numerous theoretical and empirical studies on the equity and efficiency of health system access, financing, resource allocation, policy reform and the social determinants of health. These contributions are unified by an overarching interest in equity and disparities in health and health care, focusing on vulnerable and impoverished populations, especially those with addictions. Her work has been published in Lancet; American Journal of Public Health; British Medical Journal; Quarterly Journal of Medicine; Academic Emergency Medicine; Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities; Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health; and Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. She served previously at the World Bank as health economist and speechwriter to president James D. Wolfensohn and on the health and development satellite secretariat of WHO Director-General Gro Harlem Brundtland's Transition Team.


CIRA Affiliated Projects:
Funder:
National Institute on Drug Abuse
Status: Active
Region:
Southeast Asia
Funder:
National Institute on Drug Abuse
Status: Active
Region:


Selected Publications:
2008

Ruger, J.P., Weinstein, M.C., Kearney, M.H., Hammond, K., Emmons, K.M.  (2008). Cost-Effectiveness of Motivational Interviewing for Smoking Cessation and Relapse Prevention Among Low-Income Pregnant Women: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Value in Health, 11(2), 191-198.

Ruger, J.P., and Emmons, K.M.  (2008). Economic Evaluations of Smoking Cessation and Relapse Prevention Programs for Pregnant Women: A Systematic Review. Value in Health, 11(2), 180-190.

Ruger, J.P.  (2008). Ethics in American Health 1: Ethical Approaches to Health Policy. American Journal of Public Health, 98(10), 1756-1763.

Ruger, J.  (2008). Ethics in American Health 2: An Ethical Framework for Health System Reform. American Journal of Public Health, 98(10), 1756-1763.

Ruger, J.P.  (2008). Governing Health. Harvard Law Review Forum, 121(), 43-56.

Ruger, J.P.  (2008). Normative Foundations of Global Health Law. Georgetown Law Journal, 96(423), 423-443.

Kim, H.J., Ruger, J.P.  (2008). Pharmeceutical Reform in South Korea and the Lessons it Provides. Health Affairs, 27(4), w260-w269.

Ruger, J.P.  (2008). Social Risk Management: Reducing Disparities in Risk, Vulnerability and Poverty Equitably. Medicine and Law Journal, 27(1), 109-118.

2007

Ruger, J.P., and Kress, D.  (2007). Health Financing and Insurance Reform in Morocco. Health Affairs, 26(4), 1009-1016.

Ruger, J.P.  (2007). Health, Health Care, and Incompletely Theorized Agreements: A Normative Theory of Health-Policy Decision-Making. Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law, 32(1), 51-87.

Ruger, J.P., Richter, C.J., and Lewis, L.M.  (2007). Identifying High Risk Patients for Triage and Resource Allocation in the Emergency Room. The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 25(), 794-98.

Ruger, J.P., Kim, H.  (2007). 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.

Ruger, J.P.  (2007). Rethinking Equal Access: Agency, Quality and Norms. Global Public Health, 2(1), 78-96.

Ruger, J.P.  (2007). Review of Jeffrey Sachs' The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time. Global Public Health, 2(2), 206-209.

Ruger, J.  (2007). The Moral Foundations of Health Insurance. Quarterly Journal of Medicine, 100(1), 53-57.

2006

Ruger, J.P., Richter, C.J., and Lewis, L.M.  (2006). Clinical and Economic Factors Associated with Ambulance Use to the Emergency Department. Academic Emergency Medicine, 13(8), 879-885.

Ruger, J.P.  (2006). Equity and Justice. in M. Marinker, Constructive Conversations about Health: Policy and Values (pp.). Abington, U.K.: Radcliffe Publishing.

Ruger, J.P.  (2006). Ethics and Governance of Global Health Inequalities. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 60(11), 998-1003.

Ruger, J.P., and Kim, H.  (2006). Global Health Inequalities: An International Comparison. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 60(11), 928-936.

Ruger, J.P., Jamison, D., Bloom, D., and Canning D.  (2006). Health and the Economy. in M. Merson, R. Black, and A. Mills, International Public Health : Diseases, Programs, Systems, and Policies (pp.601-647). Boston, MA: Jones and Bartlett, Inc..

Ruger, J.P.  (2006). 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.

Ruger, J.P.  (2006). Measuring disparities in health care: The gap between high and low quality care within groups matters more than gaps between groups. British Medical Journal, 333(7562), 274.

Ruger, J.P., and Kim, H.  (2006). Out-of-Pocket Health-Care Spending by the Poor and Chronically Ill in the Republic of Korea. American Journal of Public Health, 97(5), .

Ruger, J.P.  (2006). Toward a Theory of a Right to Health: Capability and Incompletely Theorized Agreements. Yale Journal of Law & Humanities, 17(2), 273-326.


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