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Ruger Receives the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale Director’s Award

Jennifer Prah Ruger, Ph.D., assistant professor in the division of Global Health at the Yale School of Public Health is one of two recipients of this year’s MacMillan Center Director’s Award.

The MacMillan Center Director’s Award was established in 2005 for non-tenured faculty who receive certain distinguished individual grants, prizes, or fellowships for international research. In addition to recognizing the faculty member’s accomplishments, the Director’s Award enables the faculty member to enhance future research. Recipients of the award are appointed as Research Fellows at the MacMillan Center and receive research funds of $5,000 per year for two years.

Ruger holds a Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and received the Labelle Lectureship in Health Services Research. Her research interests include health economics and ethics on the political economy of health, focusing on vulnerable and impoverished populations at the national and global level.

“It is a real honor to receive the MacMillan Center Director's Award,” said Professor Ruger. “It will be invaluable in furthering my research on the ethics and economics of health and healthcare disparities across the globe.”

The other recipient of the Director’s Award is Kishwar Rizvi, assistant professor of the history of art at Yale for her current research project, “Representing Kingship in Safavid Iran: Art and architectural culture during the reign of ‘Abbas I.”

Contact: Marilyn Wilkes, (203) 432-3413, marilyn.wilkes@yale.edu