Health Ethics & Politics Lab

 

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Welcome, visitors.

The Health Ethics & Politics Lab aims to interrogate the ethical legitimacy of existing health and welfare policy arrangements, provide justifications for effective health policy solutions, and untangle the complicated social and political factors that influence the health policy process and health outcomes.

 

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Our Research

Recent policy topics of interest include health systems (and the National Health Insurance), long-term care systems, pensions, social service for people with disabilities, population policy, labor immigration policy, and political violence prevention.

 

We adopt a combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches to address these topics. The methods performed includes comparative studies, survey data analysis, survey experiments, interviews, and ethical analysis.

 

Keywords

Public Health Ethics, Comparative Health Systems, Health Politics, Welfare States, Solidarity Studies

 

Principal Investigator

 

葉明叡

Ming-Jui Yeh, MS, PhD

Associate Professor

Institute of Health Policy and Management

Department of Public Health

College of Public Health, National Taiwan University

 

About Me

I am a public health ethicist and health policy researcher. I received my PhD in Health Services Research & Health Policy (Political Science Track) from Emory University, GA, USA. 

 

Research

My research interests lie at the intersection of ethics, political science, and health policy. Recent works develop a theory of global health ethics grounds on what we called the “reconciliatory solidarity,” which connects people’s health and well-being to historical injustice and present conflicts at both domestic and global levels. This normative theory informs the following series of ongoing empirical studies on political violence prevention and welfare state consolidation.

 

In March 2024, I published The Boundary Revisited: Solidarity, Sustainability, and Public Health Ethics in Democracy [重返邊界：民主政治中的團結、永續與公共衛生倫理] (Kaohsiung: Chuliu Books), a monograph on public health ethics and professional ethics of public health. My work is published in American Journal of Public Health, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Public Health Ethics, Health Care Analysis, BMJ Global Health, International Journal of Social Determinants of Health and Health Services, and Taiwan Journal of Public Health, among others. The list of my academic publications is available here.

 

I edited two volumes of popular science writing. Health Equity as Freedom: Populations, Technologies, and Policymaking in Formosan Public Health [健康公平與自由：公共衛生中的群體、科技與決策] (Kaohsiung: Chuliu Books) is a handbook of contemporary public health issues in Taiwan. In the Name of Health: Unpacking 10 Ethical Dilemmas of Public Health Policies [以健康之名？10道公衛政策倫理難題，培養公民思辨力] (New Taipei: Linking Books) published is a public health ethics readers’ companion.

 

A note on my research philosophy is available here.

 

Teaching

-         PH0009      Health and Social Welfare Systems [健康與社會福利制度]

-         HPM5024    Health Policy, Ethics and Politics [健康政策、倫理與政治]

-         HPM5026    Selected Readings in Health Justice [健康正義選讀]

-         HPM7100    Health Policy Analysis [健康政策分析]

-         HPM7108    Comparative Health Systems: A Sociopolitical Perspective

-         MPH7001    Research Methods in Public Health [公共衛生研究法]

-         MGH7041    Global Health Law and Ethics

 

Supervision

We recruit talented and devoted graduate and undergraduate students who are interested in working on topics with social, political, or ethical significance to contemporary public health in Taiwan and around the globe. To establish the supervision relationship, please be sure to preserve enough time and talk to the PI as early as you could. For supervision inquiries, please contact the PI directly. The list of supervised topics is available here.

 

Our regular meeting time is set on each Thursday 13:20 in Fall 2026. You are welcome to sit in.

 

Work with Us

We are interested in collaborating with professional scholars with research interests that fits with the Lab’s scope. For research collaboration, please contact the PI directly.

 

We are hiring!

See the job posting.

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mjyeh [at] ntu.edu.tw

+886-2-3366-8060

17 Xuzhou Road, Taipei 100, Taiwan

Last updated on September 14, 2026