Ethics Talk: Blowing the Whistle on ICE or US Immigration and Customs Enforcement
In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Azadeh Shahshahani about health ethics breaches in US detention centers and how health professionals should respond to them.
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Azadeh Shahshahani, JD, MA is legal and advocacy director at ProjectSouth, which recently filed a whistleblower complaint with the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General documenting serious health and safety violations at a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center.
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Caring for Native Americans
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Ethics Talk: Hacking Structural Racism in Health Care
In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with organizers of MIT Hacking Racism in Healthcare about design thinking as a way to find solutions to combat structural racism and advance health equity.
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Emre Ergecen is a PhD candidate in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Freddy Nguyen, MD, PhD is a pathology resident at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City and a post-doctoral fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Sai Rajagopalan, PhD is a medical student at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and has a doctorate in control theory and dynamic systems.
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Ethics Talk: Equal Justice Under Law and Health Equity
In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Christopher Ogolla about equal protection under the US Constitution to advance health equity during this COVID-19 pandemic.
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Christopher Ogolla, MA, MPH, JD, LLM is assistant professor of law at Dwayne O Andreas School of Law, Barry University.
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Racial and Ethnic Health Equity in the US: Part 1
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Ethics Talk: Surviving COVID Without Water and Other Utilities?
In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Rianna Eckel and Jean Su about the need for a nationwide moratorium on water, electricity and other utilities shutoff during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Rianna Eckel is senior organizer on the national organizing team for Food & Water Watch.
Jean Su, JD is director of the energy justice program at the Center for Biological Diversity.
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Recorded on February 26, 2021
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Racial and Ethnic Health Equity in the US: Part 2
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Ethics Talk: Health Hazards of Cost Sharing
In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Dr Ziad Obermeyer about the potential impact on mortality of cost-sharing practices of health insurers.
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Ziad Obermeyer, MD, MPhil is the Blue Cross of California Distinguished Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management, UC Berkeley School of Public Health.
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Recorded on March 9, 2021
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Interviewee reports having equity stakes in Deep Health Dandelion Health and Berkeley Data Ventures as well as receiving speaking and consulting fees from Independence Blue Cross and Anthem.
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Racial and Ethnic Health Equity in the US: Part 2
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Ethics Talk: Anti-Asian Racism During COVID and Beyond
In this video and podcast edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Dr Vivian Shaw and Susanna Park about the resurgence of anti-Asian racism and xenophobia during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Vivian Shaw, PhD is a College Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University.
Susanna Park, MA is a PhD candidate at Oregon State University College of Public Health and Human Sciences.
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Recorded on April 19, 2021
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Compassionate Force
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Ethics Talk: Public, Civic and Spiritual Health During COVID
In this video and podcast edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Dr Patrick Smith about intersections of public health, civic good and spiritual well-being during this COVID-19 pandemic.
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Patrick Smith, PhD, MA, MDiv is associate research professor of theological ethics and bioethics at the Duke Divinity School, senior fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, and core faculty with the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities, and History of Medicine at Duke University School of Medicine.
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Recorded on April 23, 2021
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Compassionate Force
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Ethics Talk: Plight of Workers in Low Wage Jobs and COVID-19
In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Dr Donald Tomaskovic-Devey about the social and economic hurdles confronted by those among us in low-wage jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, PhD is the executive director of the Center for Employment Equity at University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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Portraiture in Health Care
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Ethics Talk: White Coats for Black Lives
In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Drs Joniqua Ceasar and Dorothy Charles about systemic racism, police brutality, and the role of health professionals in securing racial justice and health equity.
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Joniqua Ceasar, MD is a resident physician in internal medicine and pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Dorothy Charles, MD is a resident physician in family medicine at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria.
Both are on the national working group of WhiteCoats4BlackLives.
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Family Medicine Internal Medicine Pediatrics Patient Care Professionalism
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Ethics Talk: Social Isolation, Loneliness, and COVID-19
In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Dr Carla Perissinotto about the health consequences of social isolation and loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Carla Perissinotto, MD, MHS is an associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
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Geriatrics Patient Care
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Portraiture in Health Care
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