Ethics 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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Viewpoints expressed are those of interview participants and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the AMA.
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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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Interviewees had no conflicts of interest to disclose.
Viewpoints expressed are those of interview participants and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the AMA.
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Risk Management Ethics
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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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Interviewee had no conflicts of interest to disclose.
Viewpoints expressed are those of interview participants and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the AMA.
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Racial and Ethnic Health Equity in the US: Part 1
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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.
Viewpoints expressed are those of interview participants and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the AMA.
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Racial and Ethnic Health Equity in the US: Part 2
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Ethics Talk: Could Trusting Science Mean Not Trusting Some FDA Decisions?
In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Dr Caleb Alexander about the US Food and Drug Administration's controversial decision to approve aducanumab for the treatment of Alzheimer's Disease.
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G. Caleb Alexander, MD, MS is professor of epidemiology and medicine at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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Recorded on June 22, 2021
Neurology Patient Care
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Dr Alexander is past chair and current member of FDA's Peripheral and Central Nervous System Drugs Advisory Committee. He is a co-founding principal and equity holder in Monument Analytics, a health care consultancy whose clients include the life sciences industry as well as plaintiffs in opioid litigation. He was also a member of OptumRx's National Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee.
Viewpoints expressed are those of interview participants and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the AMA.
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Visibility and Measurability in Health Care
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Ethics Talk: Polling, Politics, and Health Policy in the COVID-19 Era
In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Dr Mollyann Brodie about the science of polling, public opinions on COVID-19, and politically divergent views on policy options to achieve universal health care coverage.
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Mollyann Brodie, PhD is the executive vice president and chief operating officer at the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
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Interviewee had no conflicts of interest to disclose.
Viewpoints expressed are those of interview participants and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the AMA.
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Portraiture in Health Care
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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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Professionalism
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Interviewee had no conflicts of interest to disclose.
Viewpoints expressed are those of interview participants and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the AMA.
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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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Viewpoints expressed are those of interview participants and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the AMA.
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Portraiture in Health Care
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Ethics Talk: Embodied History, Health Justice, and COVID-19, Part 1
In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Dr Nancy Krieger about the population health impacts of historical injustices and structural racism.
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Nancy Krieger, PhD is a professor of social epidemiology in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health.
Part 2 of this conversation is here.
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Professionalism
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Viewpoints expressed are those of interview participants and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the AMA.
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Opioids and Public Health
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Ethics Talk: Embodied History, Health Justice, and COVID-19, Part 2
In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Dr Nancy Krieger about the population health impacts of historical injustices and structural racism.
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Nancy Krieger, PhD is a professor of social epidemiology in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health.
Part 1 of this conversation is here.
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Professionalism Systems-Based Practice
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Conflict of Interest Disclosure
Interviewee had no conflicts of interest to disclose.
Viewpoints expressed are those of interview participants and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the AMA.
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Opioids and Public Health
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