À propos

Ryoa Chung is co-Director of the Centre de Recherche en Ethique, with Prof. Kristin Voigt (McGill), and Full Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Université de Montréal. Since June 2024, she is President of the Canadian Philosophy Association/Association Canadienne de Philosophie.

 

She was a visiting doctoral student at the École Normale Supérieure de Fontenay/St-Cloud (Paris, 1997), and completed her PhD in Philosophy at the Université de Montréal (2001) under the supervision of D. Weinstock. She was a visiting scholar at Columbia University (2002) and the Harvard School of Public Health (2003).

 

She received an award for Teaching Excellence in 2005 (Prix d'excellence en enseignement de la FAS 2005 - secteur lettres et sciences humaines). Ryoa Chung was awarded a Research Prize 2023 from Fondation de la Croix Rouge Française.
 
Her fields of research are ethics in international relations and applied political philosophy in the field of global health. She is also interested in feminist philosophy. With a group of colleagues, she co-founded the "Réseau de perspectives féministes à Université de Montréal" and contributed to the creation of the program « Études féministes, des genres et des sexualités » (2017).
 
She published in such journals as Journal of Social Philosophy, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Public Health Ethics, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Revue internationale de sociologie, and Medicine, Conflict and Survival (2017) and in collective works including Questions d'éthique contemporaine (L. Thiaw-Po-Une, ed., Stock, 2006) and Bioethics in Canada (C. Weijer, A. Skelton and S. Brennan, eds, Oxford University Press, 2013). Chung is the author of the entries "Injustices épistémiques" and "Inégalités de santé" in Dictionnaire des inégalités et de justice sociale (P. Savidan, ed., Presses universitaires de France, 2018). She is also the author of the "Soft Power" and "Domination" entries in the Global Justice Encyclopedia (D. Chatterjee, ed., Springer, 2012).
 

With Matthew R. Hunt (McGill), she co-wrote the chapter "Justice and Health Inequalities in Humanitarian Crises: Structured Health Vulnerabilities and Natural Disasters" in Health Inequalities and Global Justice (P. T. Lenard and C. Straehle co-eds, Edinburgh University Press, 2012). She published papers with co-authors L. Eckenwiler and C. Straehle in Bioethics, and with co-authors M. Johri, A. Dawson, T. Schrecker in Globalization and Health. She also published in collaboration with Hunt, Durocher, Henrys, Rochon in Journal of Medical Ethics (2017), Journal of Human Rights Practice (2016). With Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer, she co-edited the book Éthique des relations internationales (Presses universitaires de France, 2013). With Dr. Joanne Liu, former international president of Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors without Borders, she co-authored an essay in Hastings Center Bioethics Forum (2021).
 

Since 2017, Chung is a regular/monthly collaborator on "Les Éclaireur", "Moteur de Recherche" and "Plus on est de fous, plus on lit" on Radio-Canada Première.
 

Chung presented academic talks in Canada, United States, Haïti, France, Germany, Greece, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Cameroun, India, Danemark. Her most recent talks are entitled "Denaturalizing COVID-19: SARS-CoV-2 and Structural Injustice" (University of Cambridge, 23 March 2021) - and "From Human Security to the Securitization of Health in the Name of National Interests: Structural Impediments to the Human Right to Health" (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University, 14 April 2021).
 

She is also working on the notion of « structural health vulnerability » (developed with M. Hunt, McGill) in the case of refugees' health. Her work is published both in English and French and was funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (research team grant 2011-2016). She is also a member of international research teams funded by the Réseau de recherches en santé des populations du Québec, and by Wellcome Trust based in the UK (2018-2019). Her work is currently funded by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Development grant (PI, research team grant, 2018-2022), and the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight grant (individual grant 2018-2023: individual grant 2023-2028).
 

In the context of COVID-19, R. Chung has been invited by the Broadbent Institute to join a group of experts to examine social issues arising from the pandemic. In collaboration with German researchers, she is also part of an international network of academics working in the field of public health ethics. With her colleagues, R. Chung co-authored a response in The Lancet (2020) stemming from their work as members of a Wellcome-funded project called "Justice in Global Health Emergencies and Humanitarian Crises". Since Fall 2020, she is member of the Independent Resource Group for Global Health Justice.
 

With L. Eckenwiler, R. Chung, A. Gotlib, V. Wild, D. Zion, she is co-editing "Forced Migration and Health Justice" (under contract, Oxford University Press).

 

Ryoa Chung is currently writing a book in French entitled "Philosophie politique et inégalités de santé".