Co-creation initiatives in health care have potential to support health equity but require a redistribution of power and a common vision in order to succeed.

Until the mid-20th century, birth in the United States for Latinx Indigenous peoples was an ancestral ceremony guided by midwives and traditional healers.

During or after conflict, a clinician might be required to provide evidence to an official investigatory body or court.

Training in a segregated health care system means that health professions students and trainees learn bias and experience helplessness and burnout.

This narrative illuminates need for students and clinicians to be well prepared to face ethically and structurally complex realities of identifying and responding to children.

Educators discussing ethically challenging topics with students should try to cultivate open mindedness while illuminating potential negative consequences that their health practice beliefs—such as refusing to provide abortion care—can have for patients, particularly those with limited options.

Principles of respect for autonomy, beneficence, and nonmaleficence guide trauma-informed care. Care ethics should also support this framework for responding to the health needs of trafficked patients.

Drug-using pregnant women have historically been subject to surveillance that criminalizes addiction, impedes care, and increases health risks.

Global health training offered through UCSF’s EMPOWUR program prepares ob/gyn residents to work in under-resourced communities locally as well as globally.