Thana C. de Campos-Rudinsky

Professor De Campos-Rudinsky develops a normative theory of institutional responsibility grounded in the moral values of love and justice.  Her work contributes to debates in medicine and public health, law, international affairs, theology, and philosophy. She examines how institutions should respond to human vulnerability — including illness, grief, poverty, and loneliness — and how the principles of solidarity, subsidiarity, and truthful communication can guide better governance in health systems, universities, public agencies, and international organizations.  Building on The Global Health Crisis (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and The Rule of Love (Oxford University Press, 2026), she leads an interdisciplinary team developing a Co-Responsibility Scorecard that translates her theoretical framework into assessment tools for improving institutional practice, leadership, and accountability, beginning in maternal health settings and scalable to other domains. She recently presented the scorecard to Chile’s Ministry of Health as part of ongoing discussions about its potential incorporation into public policy.  She was a Fung Global Fellow at Princeton and co-directs the Dignity and Equity in Women’s Health program of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights. Between 2026 and 2027 she will serve as a visiting researcher at the Center for Human Values at Princeton University, USA.