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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Viewpoints expressed are those of interview participants and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the AMA.
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Behavioral Architecture in Health Care
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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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Legacies of the Holocaust in Health Care
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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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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: 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: 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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Viewpoints expressed are those of interview participants and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the AMA.
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Compassionate Force
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Ethics Talk: Equity and Intellectual Property Protection of COVID Vaccines
In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Prof Ana Santos Rutschman about the impact of intellectual property regimes on domestic and global responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Ana Santos Rutschman, SJD is an assistant professor of law at the Saint Louis University School of Law.
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Recorded on April 28, 2021
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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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Ending the HIV Epidemic
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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
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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.
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Visibility and Measurability 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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Portraiture in Health Care
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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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Ethics Talk: Revitalizing Democracy During COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond, Part 1
In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with members of an American Academy of Arts and Sciences commission charged with developing recommendations aimed at restoring trust in our constitutional democracy.
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Antonia Hernandez, JD is chief executive officer of the California Community Foundation.
Wallace Jefferson, JD is former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Texas (2004-13).
Eric Liu, JD is chief executive officer of Citizen University.
Part 2 of this conversation is here.
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Professionalism
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Interviewees are members of the Commission on the Practice of Democratic Citizenship.
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Opioids and Public Health
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