Barbara Prainsack
Barbara Prainsack is a Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna, where she also directs the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Solidarity (CeSCoS), and leads a Work Programme on Data Solidarity. Her work explores the social, regulatory and ethical dimensions of biomedicine and bioscience, as well as practices and institutions of solidarity in healthcare and beyond. Her latest books are: The Pandemic Within: Policy Making for a Better World (with H. Wagenaar, Policy Press, 2021); and Personalised Medicine: Empowered Patients in the 21st Century? (New York University Press, 2017). A new monograph on States of Solidarity: How to save a world in peril is under contract with Oxford University Press. Barbara is also a member of the Austrian National Bioethics Committee advising the federal government in Vienna, and Chair of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies advising the European Commission. She holds an Honorary Professorship at the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Sydney and is an affiliate at the Centre for Health, Law, and Emerging Technologies (HeLEX) at the University of Oxford.
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Helga Pülzl
Helga Pülzl is Assistant Director for Policy Support of the European Forest Institute and responsible for the Policy Support Facility and its Trust Fund. Her main research interests are in European and international forest governance and policy change, bioeconomy perceptions and sustainability indicators development. She coordinates the IUFRO Working Party 9.05.01 on bioeconomy policy and holds a Phd and master’s degree in political science from the University of Vienna.