Advisory committee

Barbara Prainsack

University of Vienna

Barbara Prainsack is a professor at the Department of Political Science at the University Vienna, where she also directs the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Solidarity (CeSCoS). Her work explores the social, ethical, and regulatory dimensions of data-driven practices in biomedicine and forensics, as well as practices and institutions of solidarity in medicine and beyond. She holds honorary positions at the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Sydney and at the Centre for Health, Law, and Emerging Technologies (HeLEX) at the University of Oxford. Her latest books are: The Pandemic Within: Policy Making for a Better World (with H. Wagenaar, Policy Press, 2021), and Personalized Medicine: Empowered Patients in the 21st Century? (New York University Press, 2017). Barbara is also involved in policy-related work, e.g. as Chair of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies which advises the European Commission.