HERE: Health, Equity, Race and Ethics
This new mini-series by the IU Center for Bioethics features IUCB faculty and outside experts applying an ethics lens to issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Speakers will explore contemporary DEI topics in health and research using diverse ethical perspectives, including feminist ethics, narrative ethics, human rights frameworks, critical race theory, or other approaches. These talks are meant to be explorations of DEI that can broaden and deepen our understanding of methodology and theory in bioethics, and thus deepen our appreciation for problems and ways forward in equity and diversity.
Selected Lectures
Vaccine Hesitancy at Hospitals: How Should We Respond? (July 2021)
Panelists:
- Professor Johanna T. Crane, PhD Associate Professor, Alden March Bioethics Institute Course Director of Health, Care, and Society 1 & 2, Albany Medical College
- Kara Simpson, LCSW-R Associate Director of Social Work, Behavioral Health Services, Jacobi Medical Center
- Jennifer Breznay, MD MPH Program Director, Division of Geriatrics Co-Chair, Bioethics Committee Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
- Louis Voigt, MD Chair, Ethics Committee Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- Ashley L. Stewart, RN, BSN Infection Prevention Coordinator Carthage Area Hospital
- David N. Hoffman, Lecturer in the Discipline of Bioethics
Description:
- This panel discussion explores why many hospital employees still hesitate to get vaccinated. How do they view these issues, what factors are involved, and how should these challenges best be addressed?
- Speaker: Elizabeth A. Nelson, PhD
Dying Prematurely: Discussing Death & Dying with African Americans
- Speaker: Brownsyne Tucker Edmonds, MD, MPH, MS; Associate Professor Obstetrics & Gynecology; Assistant Dean for Diversity Affairs, IU School of Medicine
Objectives:
1. Discuss racial differences in end-of-life decision making
2. Develop a historical and cultural context for understanding these differences
a. Untimely deaths, unequal treatment, and the ‘not-so-good’ death
3. Consider the implications for clinical care
4. Tools & Resources: 5 ‘F’s Framework
Upcoming Speakers
Please check back here for an updated list of upcoming lectures.
Selected Articles
A Framework for Developing Antiracist Medical Educators and Practitioners - Scholars (Sotto - Santiago Sylk EdD, MBA, MPS, et al.)
Population Health and Human Rights, NEJM, (August 28th, 2021)
Bioethics Must Resist Attacks on Critical Race Theory, Hasting Center (July 2021)
Comment:- People and communities who have been and continue to be marginalized historically, suffer disproportionately from COVID infection, from inadequate information about the illness and possible treatments, and often lack access to basic health care. The authors argue that vaccine hesitancy is not the same thing as vaccine refusal, and that honest engagement with the community, acknowledging historical medical and government misconduct, careful listening to the community’s fears, and trust building may lead to a more just and robust vaccination and treatment program for all.
5 Ways the Healthcare System Can Stop Amplifying Racism (The Atlantic, September 2020)
Deconstructing Inequalities- Transparent Values in Measurement and Analytic Choices (NEJM, May 2021)
Dilemmas of Double Counsciousness- On Being Black in Medicine (NEJM, May 2021)
American Medical Association: Police Brutality Must Stop (American Medical Association, May 2020)
Health Equity Implication of Police Violence (UNC Center for Health Equiy Research, August 2017)
Bioethics Can and Should Contribute to Addressing Racism (American Journal of Bioethics, June 2017)