Nir Eyal (bioethicist)

Nir Eyal (born 1970) is a bioethicist and Henry Rutgers Professor of Bioethics and Director of the Center for Population–Level Bioethics at Rutgers University[2] in New Jersey. Formerly he was a bioethicist in the Department of Global Health and Population of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine of the Harvard Medical School.[3] He has long worked closely with Harvard bioethicist Daniel Wikler. Eyal's current visibility concerns his role in studying the ethics of human challenge trials in HIV, malaria, and coronavirus vaccine development. He has also written on 'bystander risks' during pandemics and infectious diseases and contract tracing during ebola.[4]

Nir Eyal
Dr. Nir Eyal at Harvard Effective Altruism lecture, April 2015
Born
Nir Morechay Eyal

June 1970[1]
Israel
NationalityIsraeli
Spouse(s)Leah Price
Childrenone son
Academic background
Alma materRutgers, DPhil
InfluencesDan Wikler
Academic work
School or traditionEthical philosophy
InstitutionsHarvard University, Rutgers University
Main interests
Notable ideashuman challenge study

Career

Dr. Eyal received his early education at Tel Aviv University and Hebrew University in Israel and the DPhil in Politics from Oxford University. He worked with Peter Singer and others during his 2004-2006 post-doctoral study at Princeton University in the NIH Department of Clinical Bioethics and the Princeton University Center for Human Values. He researched and taught from through 2019 in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine of the Harvard Medical School and in the Department of Global Health and Population of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. During those thirteen years, he was affiliated with Faculties of the Harvard Law School and Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences and their research centers. In 2009–2010, he was a Faculty Fellow in a visitorship at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics in Cambridge.

Since mid-2019, Dr. Eyal has been a faculty member within the Rutgers Department of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Population–Level Bioethics there.

Education and postdoctoral training
  • 2004-2006 Harold T Shapiro Postdoctoral Fellowship in Bioethics, Princeton University Center for Human Values
  • 2002-2004 Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institutes of Health, Department of Clinical Bioethics
  • 1998-2003 DPhil, Politics (political philosophy), Oxford University
  • 1994-1998 MA, Philosophy, Hebrew University
  • 1991-1994 BA, Philosophy and History, Tel Aviv University

Awards

Select publications

In collaboration

Personal life

Eyal is married to Leah Price, Henry Rutgers Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University, founder and director of the Rutgers Initiative for the Book and the author of numerous books, including What We Talk About When We Talk About Books[7][8][9][10] Prior to moving to Rutgers, Price was Professor of English and American Literature at Harvard University, where at the age of 31 she became one of the youngest assistant professors ever to be promoted to tenure at Harvard.[11] They have one son and live in Princeton, New Jersey.

See also

References
  1. WorldCat identity
  2. Rutgers profile page for Dr. Nir Eyal
  3. 2015 CV of Nir Eyal
  4. KC Swanson, C Altare, CS Wesseh, T Nyenswah, T Ahmed, N Eyal, et al. Contact tracing performance during the Ebola epidemic in Liberia, 2014-2015. 2018:PLoS neglected tropical diseases 12 (9), e0006762.
  5. Why_continuing_uncertainties_are_no_reason_to_postpone_challenge_trials_for_coronavirus_vaccines. Journal of Medical Ethics. 2020. DOI 10.1136/medethics-2020-106501.
  6. Mark Furman (April 7, 2020). "'You are actively slowing down the spread': Model predicts Oregon cases peak April 21". KVAL-TV.
  7. Brown NP. The best of bestowing: the 'gifts you can keep unwrapping'. November-December 2012. Harvard Magazine: New England regional/explorations.
  8. Reich H. How to focus when your mobile phone is distracting you from reading or writing. ABC Arts. The Book Show. Saturday Saturday 21 March 2020 at 4:53pm
  9. Leah Price. Rutgers Initiative for the Book. Rutgers University
  10. Leah Price. Rutgers University
  11. "University Grants Young Female Star Unusual Tenure | News | The Harvard Crimson". www.thecrimson.com. Retrieved 2020-02-25.
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