DrIlaria Galasso

I am a SFI-IRC Pathway Fellow at University College Dublin, leading the research project "Deprived Health" to the conceptual understanding and the concrete pursuit of social and health equity. It combines philosophical analysis, empirical research and social commitment, and it is focused on the collaborative dismantlement of barriers to health, healthcare and wellbeing for migrant and homeless people.
I am primarily interested in social and health equity (and the connections between the two): my research relates to issues of distributive justice and of equity in the context of health and healthcare, in connection with social inequalities and the social determinants of health, and with accessibility and inclusivity of health research and care.
I have a background in Ethical and Political Philosophy and Philosophy of Science. I did my PhD with the STS Research Unit of the interdisciplinary doctoral program “Foundations of Life Sciences, Bioethics and Cognitive Sciences” at the European School of Molecular Medicine based in Milan, Italy, in partnership with the European Institute of Oncology and with the University of Milan. My doctoral research, developed within an STS framework, analyzed the emerging medical approach of precision medicine from an ethical and political perspective, by considering the possibly deriving benefits and their distributions in relation to social and health equity. As a postdoc I joined the ERC project MISFIRES at University College Dublin, on collaborative approaches to healthcare innovation to the pursuit of social justice, and then the Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine, Technical University of Munich.
I published my research on relevant high impact journals like the American Journal of Bioethics, Critical Public Health, Social Science and Medicine, Public Health Ethics, Medical Humanities.
Currently I am specifically focused on the social barriers to health and wellbeing in contexts of socioeconomic deprivation, and on the concept of individual and social responsibility in health and beyond.