Barbara Prainsack

Barbara Prainsack is a professor at the Department of Political Science at the University Vienna, and a co-director of the University of Vienna's Center for Advanced Studies (ViCAS). Her work explores the social, ethical, and regulatory dimensions of data-driven practices in biomedicine and the biosciences, as well as practices and institutions of solidarity in medicine and beyond. Her new monograph on States of Solidarity: How to build a society was just published 2026 (Oxford University Press). Barbara is also involved in policy-related work, e.g. as Chair of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies which advises the European Commission.

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