Rachel Gur-Arie, PhD

Rachel Gur-Arie, PhD, MS, (she/her) Hecht-Levi Fellow 2022 is an assistant professor and by training in the Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation at Arizona State University (ASU) in Phoenix, AZ. Through conceptual and empirical methods, Dr. Gur-Arie’s research explores the role of ethics in varying public health practice and policy contexts: specifically, vaccine hesitancy and genomic medicine implementation among healthcare workers in underserved communities. She is currently PI of a Templeton Foundation grant focused on investigating the relationship between religion and vaccine hesitancy among pre-health students. Dr. Gur-Arie received the New Investigator Award by the Genomics Forum of the American Public Health Association in 2024 . Prior to joining ASU, she was a Hecht-Levi Postdoctoral Fellow of ethics and infectious disease, jointly appointed at the Berman Institute of Bioethics of Johns Hopkins University and The Wellcome Center for Ethics and Humanities at the University of Oxford. Dr. Gur-Arie completed her doctorate in health systems management and served as a Fulbright Scholar in Public Health at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. She is a research associate of the Ethox Centre at the University of Oxford and a faculty affiliate of the Mayo Clinic Biomedical Research Program.