Erika Blacksher’s current research focuses on two areas of ethical inquiry. The first is concerned with children’s health inequalities and the family’s status as both a subject of public justice and a site for the pursuit of private good. The second area of ethical inquiry relates more broadly to how a liberal society can formulate health policy to improve the health and life chances of its most vulnerable citizens without further harming or stigmatizing them. This issue bears implications for how we respond to new patterns of discrimination, implement public health interventions, and conduct population health research. Blacksher did her doctorate at the University of Virginia and her dissertation examined whether John Rawls’s influential theory of justice can adequately address the social gradient in children’s developmental health. She has undergraduate degrees in both philosophy and journalism.