Ryoa Chung is President of the Canadian Philosophical Association (2024-2025), Co-Director of the Centre de Recherche en Éthique/Center for Research in Ethics (CRE) - with K. Voigt (McGill) and Full Professor in the Philosophy Department at the Université de Montréal. Chung was awarded a research prize from the French Red Cross Foundation 2023 at Paris Science Po. She was also awarded a Prix d'excellence en enseignement by the FAS 2005 (humanities sector). Having completed a doctoral internship as a foreign scientific boarder at the École Normale Supérieure de Fontenay/St-Cloud (Paris, 1997), she completed her doctorate in philosophy at the Université de Montréal (2001) under the supervision of Daniel M. Weinstock, and spent two research periods as a visiting scholar at Columbia University (2002) and the Harvard School of Public Health (2003).

Her articles have appeared in journals such as Journal of Social Philosophy, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Public Health Ethics, Revue internationale de sociologie, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Medicine, Conflict and Survival (2017), as well as in collective works such as Questions d'éthique contemporaine (edited by L. Thiaw-Po-Une, Stock, 2006), and Bioethics in Canada (co-edited by C. Weijer, A. Skelton and S. Brennan, Oxford University Press, 2013). She is also the author of the entries 'Epistemic Injustices' and 'Health Inequalities' in the Dictionary of Inequalities and Social Justice (edited by P. Savidan, Presses universitaires de France, 2018).

With Matthew R. Hunt, she co-authored the chapter 'Justice and Health Inequalities in Humanitarian Crises. Structured Health Vulnerabilities and Natural Disasters' in Health Inequalities and Global Justice (P. T. Lenard and C. Straehle co-eds, Edinburgh University Press, 2012) and has published articles with co-authors L. Eckenwiler and C. Straehle in Bioethics, with co-authors M. Johri, A. Dawson, T. Schrecker in Globalization and Health. She has also published in collaboration with Hunt, Durocher, Henrys, Rochon in Journal of Medical Ethics (2017), Journal of Human Rights Practice (2016). Ryoa Chung co-edited with Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer the book Éthique des relations internationales (Presses universitaires de France, 2013). With Dr. Joanne Liu, former international president of Médecins Sans Frontières, Chung has co-published an essay in Hastings Center Bioethics Forum and other works. With members of an international research group funded by the Wellcome Trust, Ahmed, Chung, Eckenwiler et co. co-authored a text in The Lancet (2020). With L. Eckenwiler, V. Wild, R. Chung, A. Gotlib, D. Zion, she is co-editing a collective work Forced Migration and Health Justice under contract for Oxford University Press. Chung is writing a monograph in French entitled “Philosophie politique et inégalités de santé”.

Since 2017, R. Chung has been a regular contributor to “Les Éclaireurs”, “Plus on Lit” and “Moteur de recherche” on Radio-Canada Ici Première, discussing social issues from a public ethics perspective. She has given academic presentations in Canada, the United States, Haiti, France, Great Britain, Switzerland, Germany, India, Cameroon, Denmark and Greece.

R. Chung is currently working on structural and epistemic injustices to better understand the production and perpetuation of health inequalities. She is also working on the notion of 'structural health vulnerability' (developed with M. Hunt, McGill) in relation to the situation of refugees. She was a member of international research teams funded by the Quebec Population Health Network and the British Wellcome Trust (2018-2019). Her work has been funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (research team 2011-2016) and by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada SSHRC/Développement Savoir - principal investigator research team (2018-2022) and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada SSHRC/Savoir - individual project (2018-2023). Since 2023, Chung has been working on an SSRCH Individual Savoir/Insight Grant research project entitled “Health, Justice and Security” (2023-2028).

Chung is also a member of the Chaire franco-québécoise COLIBEX and the Observatoire sur la liberté d'expression (funded by the FRQSC), as well as a research team on social innovation issues in research and training (funded by SSHRC).

My research interests have mainly to do with ethics, political philosophy and the philosophy of law. I am focusing on contemporary theories of justice and democracy, both the justification of fundamental rights and the institutional mechanisms for enforcing them. I am interested in political liberalism and its multiculturalist implications, the issue of public reason and deliberation, and in constitutionalism and legal argumentation.

As part of the Chair's activities, I am conducting a research program on institutions of tolerance with a political dimension that also applies to moral psychology and the philosophy of education. In 2011-2012, I also began studying the issue of corruption in and of democracy. Since 2012, I have been co-ordinating the CORDÉ Corruption et démocratie research group.