Description
Dr James Downs joins Ethics Talk to discuss the underrecognized contributions of marginalized peoples to the origins of epidemiology, and Dr Rae Anne Martinez outlines good uses of race and ethnicity data in epidemiological research.
James Downs, PhD is the Gilder Lehrman-National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Civil War Era Studies and History at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania. He is the author of Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine (Harvard University Press, 2021).
Rae Anne Martinez, PhD, MSPH is a population health postdoctoral fellow at the Minnesota Population Center at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
Interview with Dr Downs recorded on October 1, 2024; interview with Dr Martinez recorded on October 9, 2024.
Conflict of Interest Disclosure
Interviewees disclosed no conflicts of interest.
Viewpoints expressed are those of interview participants and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the AMA.
