As machine learning becomes increasingly common in health care, these systems’ data, algorithms, and recommendations raise critical justice questions.

There is great need for good teaching about how to have culturally appropriate conversations among clinicians, patients, and other stakeholders.

Given organ scarcity, transplantation programs state that patient promises of compliance cannot be taken at face value, excluding candidates who are deemed untrustworthy.

Shared decision making is practically difficult to implement in mental health practice but remains an ethical ideal for motivating therapeutic capacity.

Dr Laura Guidry-Grimes helps us consider whether and which decisions can be shared with people experiencing mental illnesses.

During one 2014 Ebola epidemic, arrival of “safe burial” teams was often delayed. Some buried their loved ones themselves, which undermined containment efforts.

Culturally appropriate responsiveness to mental illnesses is critical to mitigating local persons’ distrust of international clinicians.

How would gathering preclinical data and improving research infrastructure facilitate clearer definitions of “population vulnerability” and “risk acceptability”?

Journalists have long covered outbreaks of infectious disease and newsrooms have wielded their power both responsibly and irresponsibly.

Government and public-private coalitions have important roles in cancer surveillance in LMICs.