Barbara Prainsack

Barbara Prainsack is Professor of Comparative Policy Analysis at the University of Vienna's Department of Political Science and Professor at King's College London's Department of Global Health & Social Medicine since 2013. Her research examines social, regulatory, and ethical dimensions of biomedicine and bioscience within policy frameworks.

Her core research areas include:

• Bioethics
• Biomedicine
• Science and Technology Studies
• Data Ethics
• Health Policy
• Comparative Policy Analysis

She authored "Personalized Medicine: Empowered Patients in the 21st Century?" (NYU Press, 2017) and "Solidarity in Biomedicine and Beyond" (Cambridge University Press, 2017 with A. Buyx), with recent work emphasizing social value in data ethics. Her analysis highlights how legally compliant big data practices can cause societal harm, advocating for ethics frameworks prioritizing community impact over technical compliance.