Ju Zhang

Ju Zhang is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Center for the Study of Human Health at Emory University. Her research and teaching span bioethics, philosophy of health and medicine, and health humanities. Her scholarship examines trust, autonomy, and the meanings of health and illness, with particular attention to epistemic injustice, chronic illness, mental health, disability, cross-cultural contexts, and emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence. She explores how healthcare professionals, researchers, institutions, and technologies can become worthy of trust while respecting the knowledge, experiences, and agency of patients and communities, especially those who have been marginalized or disadvantaged. Her work seeks to build and sustain relationships of trust that make cooperation possible amid growing social and political fragmentation, uncertainty, and deep differences in values.