About the Program
The Global Health Justice Postdoctoral Programme (GHJ), funded by
H枚ppsche Stiftung and directed by Prof. Dr. Rainer Forst and Prof. Dr.
Darrel Moellendorf at 看片软件 Frankfurt, each year appoints up
to two post-doctoral fellows for a full academic year. The Fellows are
part of the Frankfurt academic community, especially of the Normative
Orders Research Centre.
Questions of health justice have been part of discussions about global
justice for a long time, and there are numerous approaches, ranging from
deontological to consequentialist ones, to address them. The Covid-19
pandemic, however, has added not just some urgency to these questions
but also showed how structural asymmetries between (and within)
different countries led to highly unequal chances to receive and develop
vaccines and to care for basic health needs. It is time for a global
debate on global health justice, and the new program set up at Normative
Orders aims to help facilitate research conducive to this debate. Many
issues need to be explored in this context, not just fair access to
medicine but also the nature of transnational structural injustice,
gender disparities in health provision, sustainable development goals,
climate change and health, the human right to health, etc.