Rachel Gur-Arie

Rachel Gur-Arie, PhD, MS is an Assistant Professor at Arizona State University (jointly appointed in the Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation and the new School of Technology for Public Health). Dr. Gur-Arie is Principal Investigator of the Public Health Ethics Lab (@phethicslab on Instagram; website: https://phethicslab.org/).

Dr. Gur-Arie's research is grounded in a sustained research program that treats ethical problems in public health as both conceptual and practical. Dr. Gur-Arie has developed a distinctive empirical ethics approach: using qualitative and mixed methods to clarify the values, obligations, and policy tensions that shape real-world health decisions. Her work has been supported by the John Templeton Foundation, the National Human Genome Research Institute, the Mayo Clinic and Arizona State University Alliance for Health Care, the Arizona Biomedical Research Center, and the Oxford-Johns Hopkins Global Infectious Disease Ethics Collaborative. As PI, using empirical ethics methods, I have led studies on religion-based vaccine hesitancy (Templeton), health care provider and patient experiences with genomic testing in a federally qualified health center (NHGRI/Mayo-ASU), and Arizona partnerships to foster trust in health (ABRC). 

Dr. Gur-Arie's training in Biology and Society at Arizona State University, Fulbright-supported public health research, doctoral work in Health Systems Management at Ben-Gurion University, and Hecht-Levi postdoctoral fellowship in Ethics and Infectious Disease at the Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins and the Ethox Centre at the University of Oxford has led her to develop a distinctive empirical ethics approach: using qualitative and mixed methods to clarify the values, obligations, and policy tensions that shape real-world health decisions.