Research Overview

My research focuses on what is ordinarily called distributive justice. I have a particular interest in distributive justice as it pertains to healthcare (which I think of as the intersection between bioethics, political philosophy, and sometimes the philosophy of law). I am currently working on a book-length project that explores the moral limits of global intellectual property law and other market structures which govern the distribution of essential medications; in it, I aim to rally a normative defence of compulsory licensing mechanisms. I also have working papers on epistemic and relational justice, and occasionally write policy commentaries. Below, you can find links to my work; where access is not available or you want unpublished drafts, feel free to email me.

Publications

"Healthcare Justice: Protecting Self-Respect, Not Opportunity."
Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 22, no. 4 (2025): early online. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-025-10432-9.

"Budget Cuts to Narcan Programs Dangerously Misunderstand Public Health Aims."
Health Affairs Forefront (2025): online print. https://doi.org/10.1377/forefront.20250709.312782.

Public Engagement (Selected)

APA Member Interview: Radheesh Ameresekere.
Blog of the APA (2024): online print.

Papers in Progress

A paper on vulnerability in research populations (under review).
A paper on compulsory licensing (ms. in preparation).
A paper on health law (ms. in preparation).
A paper on relational egalitarianism in Kant (ms. in preparation).

Selected Talks (* = invited)

Philosophy and Biomanufacturing (Panel)
- Ethics Bowl Canada, Université de Montréal, June 2025

A Kantian Conception of Relational Equality.
- Kant’s Moral Philosophy—Beyond the Strawman, Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald, May 2025

Rethinking Self-Respect and its Bases
- McGill University, November 2024

What We Owe to Non-Rational Agents
- (with Lawrence Chyall) Foundations of Bioethics FLG, Harvard Medical School, October 2024 (*)

Healthcare Justice: Protecting Self-Respect, Not Opportunity
- Justice, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Past, Present, and Future, April 2025
- Australasian Association of Philosophy (AAP) Conference, October 2024

Art and Reason
- Annual Falsafa Symposium, University of California Irvine, February 2022 (*)