Podcast

Ethics Talk: Ethical and Clinical Complexities of SDoH Screening and Follow-Up

Description

Dr Laura Gottlieb joins Ethics Talk to discuss currently available screening methods and the difficulty in establishing causal links among structural determinants of health, interventions, and outcomes, and Rachel Landauer explores how screening for pediatric social drivers of health might exacerbate shame and stigma. 

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Laura Gottlieb, MD, MPH is a professor of family community medicine in the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and the founding co-director of the Social Interventions Research and Evaluation Network. 

Rachel Landauer, JD, MPH is a clinical instructor at the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation at Harvard Law School in Boston, Massachusetts, where she works with partners to advocate for health care policy and practice reform. 

Recorded May 21, 2025.

 

Conflict of Interest Disclosure
Contributors disclosed no conflicts of interest relevant to the content.

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