Jennifer Prah Ruger

Jennifer Prah Ruger is an Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Law at Yale Law School and an Associate Professor at the Yale School of Public Health. She is an Interdisciplinary Research Methods Core Investigator for the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS and former Co-Director of the Yale/World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Health Promotion, Policy and Research. She has authored numerous studies on the equity and efficiency of health system access, financing, resource allocation, policy reform and the social determinants of health. Her interest in equity and disparities in health and health care focuses on vulnerable and impoverished populations. She served previously at the World Bank as a health economist and speechwriter to World Bank president James D. Wolfensohn. She holds degrees from the University of California-Berkeley, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Oxford University, and Harvard University.

Education
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1998
M.Sc., Oxford University, 1992
M.A., Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 1991
B.A., University of California-Berkeley, 1988
M.S.L., Yale Law School, 2011

Courses Taught
Global Health Ethics, Politics, and Economics