Vong Publications and Research
Dr. Vong’s research focuses on the fair, ethical and systematic allocation of benefits, risks and scarce resources (with a particular focus on scarce healthcare goods). Dr. Vong pursues both single-authored theoretical research in moral philosophy and bioethics as well as collaborative interdisciplinary research.
Publications listed here from 2020-2026.
Peer-reviewed Journals
Gustafson, C. M., Cimiotti, J. P., Vong, G., Hertzberg, V., & Song, M. K. "Age Classifications of Young Adults With Chronic Illness: A Scoping Review." Nursing Forum. 2025, No. 1., pp 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1155/nuf/5592882
Vong, G. On the Differing Role of Counterexamples in Philosophical Theory and Health Policy. The American Journal of Bioethics, 2024, Vol. 24 No. 7, pp.114–117. https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2024.2353835
Bliton, J., Zakrison, T., Vong, G., Johnson, D., Rattan, R., Hanos, D., Smith, R. ‘Ethical Care of the Traumatized – A Conceptual Introduction to Trauma-Informed Care for Surgeons and Surgical Residents’ Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 2022, Vol. 243 No. 6, pp.1238-1247. https://doi.org/10.1097/XCS.0000000000000183 (featured in Medical Ethics Advisor, 2022, Vol. 38. No.9, pp.135-136)
Sood, A., Brahmbhatt, M., Flowers, N., Yeung, H., Vong, G., Stoff, B. ‘Challenging ethical scenarios reported by American Society of Dermatopathology members: a qualitative analysis’ Journal of Cutaneous Pathology. 2021, Vol. 49 No.2, pp.191-196. https://doi.org/10.1111/cup.14137
Ross-Driscoll, K., Esper, G., Kinlaw, K., Lee, Y., Morris, A., Murphy, D., Pentz, R., Robichaux, C., Vong, G., Wack, K., Dickert, N. ‘Evaluating Approaches to Improve Equity in Critical Care Resource Allocation in the COVID-19 Pandemic’ American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 2021, Vol. 204 No. 12, pp.1481-1484. https://doi.org/10.1164/rccm.202106-1462LE
Vong, Gerard. ‘Promoting the sustainability of healthcare resources with existing ethical principles: scarce COVID-19 medications, vaccines and principled parsimony.’ Journal of Medical Ethics, 2021, Vol. 47, No.2 pp. 104-105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2020-107132
Brahmbhatt, M., Yeung, H., Vong, G., Allbritton, J., Amin, B., Dulaney, E. D., Fullen, D., LeBlanc, R., Ruben, B., Seykora,J., Vyas, N., Stoff, B. ‘Ethical and Professionalism Issues in Dermatopathology: A Cross-Sectional Survey of American Society of Dermatopathology Members.’ Journal of Cutaneous Pathology. 2021, Vol. 48 No. 6. https://doi.org/10.1111/cup.13946
Vong, Gerard. ‘Weighing Up Weighted Lotteries: Scarcity, Overlap Cases, and Fair Inequalities of Chance.’ Ethics, Vol. 130, No. 3, 320-348. https://doi.org/10.1086/707212 (featured for academic discussion in the Ethics official blog, Philosophy, Ethics, Academia & highlighted in the Emory University News Center Research Roundup May 2020)
Martin, Dominique; Harris, David; Jha, Vivekanand; Segantini, Luca; Demme, Richard; Le, Thu; McCann, Laura, Sands, Jeff; Vong, Gerard; Wolpe, Paul; Fontana, Monica; London, Gerard; Vanderhaegen, Bert; Vanholder, Raymond ‘Ethical challenges in nephrology: a call for action’ Nature Reviews Nephrology. 2020, Vol. 16, pp. 603-613 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41581-020-0295-4
Vong, Gerard & Levinson, Meira. ‘The ethics of risk displacement in research and public policy.’ Bioethics, 2020, Vol. 34 Issue. 09. https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.12726
Ahmad, Samera. Vong, Gerard, Pentz, Rebecca, Dixon, Margie. Davis, Keenan & Khalifa, Yousuf. ‘Ethics in Eye Banking: Understanding Professional Attitudes Toward Industry Changes’. Cornea. 2020, Vol. 39, No. 10, pp. 1207-1214 https://doi.org/10.1097/ico.0000000000002296
Book Review
Vong, Gerard. ‘Book Review of Philip Pettit’s The Robust Demands of the Good: Ethics with Attachment, Virtue and Respect’ Utilitas, 2018, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp.120-123 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0953820817000073
Presentations
Paper Presenter (x2), 27th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and the Medical Humanities, Portland, USA. October 23 & 24, 2025.
Book Respondent, Philosophy, Politics, & Economics 8th Annual Conference, New Orleans, USA, November 16, 2024.
Paper Presenter, Society for Teaching Across the Curriculum 25th Annual Conference, Clemson, USA, October 4, 2024.
Paper Presenter, Annual Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law Conference, Brisbane, Australia, November 20, 2023.
Thursday Seminar, School of Philosophy, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, November 15, 2023.
Fall 2023 Colloquium Series, Center for Bioethics, New York University, New York City, USA, October 25, 2023.
Invited Speaker, Ethics of Engineered-Virus Pandemics Workshop, Hastings Center, Garrison, USA. June 23, 2023.
Invited Speaker, Sherwin B. Nuland Summer Institute in Bioethics, Yale University, New Haven, USA. June 20, 2023.
Paper Presenter, 24rd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and the Medical Humanities, Portland, USA. October 27, 2022.
Invited Speaker, South East Asia Equity Fellows Initiative, Atlanta, USA. June 7 & 15, 2022.
Invited Speaker, Center for Population Level-Bioethics, Rutgers University, March 30, 2022.
Webinar Panelist, American Society of Nephrology, European Renal Association and International Society of Nephrology Joint Webinar, May 9, 2022.
Panel Chair, Healthcare Ethics Consortium 27th Annual Conference, USA. March 10, 2022.
Panel Presenter & Moderator, 23rd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and the Medical Humanities, USA. October 16, 2021.
Symposium Paper Invited Commentator, American Philosophical Association Eastern Division, (Moved from New York City to Zoom because of pandemic), USA. January 15 2021.
Invited Panelist, Inaugural Virtual Research Symposium on Racial Disparities, Racial Inequities, and Injustice, Emory University, USA. November 6, 2020.
Panel Presenter & Moderator, COVID-19 Special Session, 22nd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and the Medical Humanities, USA. October 18, 2020.
Clinical Ethics Seminar, Emory University, USA. February 27, 2020.
Presenter & Session Chair, 29th Annual International Conference of the Association for Professional and Practical Ethics, USA. February 21, 2020.