Lisa Eckenwiler, phd

Lisa Eckenwiler, PhD

Lisa Eckenwiler, Ph.D., is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at George Mason University, where she teaches courses in bioethics and global justice, and on a range of topics in global health ethics. Her research centers on vulnerability and structural health injustice, and she has published widely on migration and health justice, humanitarian health ethics, and placemaking and health justice. Recent articles focus on ethics and the closure of humanitarian projects, including, with Munoz-Beaulieu, I., Perez, R., Luneta, M., Hyppolite, S.R., Schwartz. L., Hunt, M. “Thinking Through Abrupt Closure in Humanitarian Assistance: Key Ethical Considerations in Seemingly Impossible Conditions. PLOS Global Public Health 5 (2025): e0004656. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0004656.

Prof. Eckenwiler is the lead editor of Forced Migration and Health Justice, forthcoming from Oxford University Press in 2026. She is at work on a book entitled Placemaking for Health Justice, for Routledge. Her previous books include Long-term Care, Globalization and Justice (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012) and The Ethics of Bioethics: Mapping the Moral Landscape, co-edited with Felicia Cohn (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007). Prof. Eckenwiler is a Fellow of the Hastings Center and served as Vice President of the International Association of Bioethics. She is also founder and current chair of the Migrant Health and Ethics Network (within the International Association of Bioethics) and a founding member of the Independent Resource Group for Global Health Justice.