Don’t Call Me a Hero: How to Meaningfully Support Health Care Workers
When you feel complicit in such deep structural dysfunction, it is incredibly difficult to feel heroic.
Social Determinants of Health
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Read more: How the Government Can Prevent Individuals from Using Wealth to Cut the Vaccine Line How the Government Can Prevent Individuals from Using Wealth to Cut the Vaccine Line
There are several ways government officials can combat the wealth problem without sacrificing the speed at which vaccines are administered.
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Read more: Seminar Series: COVID-19 and the Law: The Disparate Burdens of COVID-19 Seminar Series: COVID-19 and the Law: The Disparate Burdens of COVID-19
RecordingSeminar Series Description On March 3, we held the fourth installment of the COVID-19 and the Law: Disruption, Impact, and Legacy Seminar Series. This seminar series considered the ethical, legal, regulatory, and broader social and institutional impacts that COVID-19 has had, as well as the longer-lasting effects it may have on our society. This fourth…
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Read more: How Restrictions on SNAP Harm Health How Restrictions on SNAP Harm Health
Concerns about promoting economic independence cannot be tied to one of the most foundational of life’s necessities: access to food.
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Read more: The Impact of COVID-19 on LGBT Persons The Impact of COVID-19 on LGBT Persons
Event Description In his recent report to the United Nations, Victor Madrigal-Borloz, UN Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, addressed the particular impact of COVID-19 on LGBT persons, communities, and populations, highlighting social exclusion and violence, as well as institutional drivers of stigma and discrimination. Madrigal-Borloz, who is also the Eleanor Roosevelt Senior…
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Read more: Medical Stereotypes: Confronting Racism and Disparities in US Health Care: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium Medical Stereotypes: Confronting Racism and Disparities in US Health Care: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium
RecordingEvent Description Minority racial and ethnic groups in the US have long experienced disparities in access to health care and worse health outcomes, undermining broader social, political, and economic equality. One component of these disparities are various stereotypes that affect how minority patients are perceived and treated. This session explored how medical discourse and the…
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Read more: Call for Applications: Research Fellow for Diagnostic Digital Home Health Call for Applications: Research Fellow for Diagnostic Digital Home Health
We’re hiring a full-time post-doctoral fellow to support our newly launched Diagnostic Digital Home Health initiative.
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Read more: The Petrie-Flom Center Launches New Project: Diagnosing in the Home The Petrie-Flom Center Launches New Project: Diagnosing in the Home
Diagnosing in the Home seeks to examine the ethical, social, and legal challenges of digital home health products.
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Read more: Bias, Fairness, and Deep Phenotyping Bias, Fairness, and Deep Phenotyping
Researchers must carefully consider how different datasets used to train algorithms present issues regarding bias and diversity.
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Read more: Bioethics: What Is It Good for? COVID-19 Vaccine Allocation Plans and Realities Bioethics: What Is It Good for? COVID-19 Vaccine Allocation Plans and Realities
It is clear that something was lost in the translation of vaccine allocation plans into reality. What went wrong?
