Ethics Talk: Should Adolescents Be Able to Consent for COVID-19 Vaccinations?
In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Abigail English about the ethical and legal implications of adolescents consenting for COVID-19 vaccination.
Abigail English, JD is director of the Center for Adolescent Health & the Law in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
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Recorded on July 27, 2021
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Ethics Talk: Fighting Global HIV/AIDS During the COVID Pandemic
In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Dr Chris Beyrer about the challenges facing the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Chris Beyrer, MD, MPH is the Desmond M. Tutu Professor of Public Health and Human Rights at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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Recorded on August 10, 2011
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Ethics Talk: Publishing Science and Accelerating Discovery During and After COVID-19
In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Drs Stefano Bertozzi and Jeffrey Mackie-Mason about sustainable models of scientific publishing that advance biomedical knowledge and discovery.
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Stefano Bertozzi, MD, PhD is a professor of health policy and management at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, and editor in chief of Rapid Reviews: COVID-19.
Jeffrey Mackie-Mason, PhD, MPP is a professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information and Department of Economics, and university librarian and chief digital scholarship officer at UC Berkeley.
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Header Image Issue Behavioral Architecture in Health Care CME OffEthics Talk: COVID Dermatologic Disparities Go More Than Skin Deep
In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Dr Jenna Lester about racial and ethnic disparities in dermatologic care and its contributions to health inequities during this COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
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Jenna Lester, MD is an assistant professor of dermatology at the University of California, San Francisco.
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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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Header Image Issue Caring for Native Americans CME OffEthics Talk: Politics, Policy, and COVID Cartoons
In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Matt Wuerker about his artistic process in creating cartoons that speak to matters of politics and policy arising from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Matt Wuerker is the staff cartoonist for Politico and winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in editorial cartooning.
Background cartoon courtesy of Matt Wuerker.
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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: Rationing Critical Care During COVID Surge
In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Dr Matthew Wynia about implementation of crisis standards of care in response to the dramatic surge in COVID-19 cases that is pushing the limits of US hospitals' critical care capacity.
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Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH is a professor of medicine and public health at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and directs its Center for Bioethics and Humanities.
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Ethics Talk: Unblinding COVID-19 Vaccine Trials
In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Dr Steven Goodman about the ethical and scientific implications of unblinding COVID-19 vaccine trials.
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Steven Goodman, MD, MHS, PhD is Associate Dean of Clinical and Translational Research and Professor of Medicine and of Epidemiology and Population Health at Stanford School of Medicine.
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Ethics Talk: Crushing Medical Debt During COVID-19
In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Alisson Sesso about the devastating impacts of medical debt, exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic, and how RIP Medical Debt helps to abolish this financial burden.
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Allison Sesso, MPA is executive director of RIP Medical Debt, a 501(c)3 that works to eliminate medical debt for those at or near the federal poverty level.
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