Global health outreach programs can risk benefitting students from resource-rich areas of the world more than the patients in resource-poor areas of the world. This month’s episode of Ethics Talk explores an alternative to academic health center-based health outreach programs.

Ari Ne’eman joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, When Disability is Defined by Behavior, Outcome Measures Should Not promote “Passing”.

Dr Pamela B. Teaster joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Al O. Giwa: "Ageism as a Source of Global Mental Health Inequity.”

In the September 2014 issue on physicians as agents of social change, Dr. Audiey Kao, editor-in-chief of Virtual Mentor interviewed Dr. Rajiv Shah, administrator of the United States Agency for International Development or USAID.

AMA Journal of Ethics theme editor Abraar Karan, MD, and MPH candidate at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, interviewed Agnes Binagwaho, MD, PhD, about practical challenges Rwanda overcame and ethical questions it faced while motivating better health outcomes for its people.

This month, AMA Journal of Ethics theme editor Nikhil A. Patel, MS, a fourth-year medical student at the Mayo Medical School, interviewed Joia Mukherjee, MD, MPH, about Partners In Health’s mission to strengthen low-income countries’ health care systems and lessons learned from the Ebola crisis.

Dr Jeremy A. Gallegos joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article: “How Should We Advance Sleep Stewardship?”

Dr Jennifer Randall joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Tasha R. Wyatt: “Centering Justice in Health Professions Education by Owning Limitations of Anti-Bias Checklists.”

Dr Joost van Herten joins Ethics Talk to discuss how comparing different conceptions of health can help us interrogate just exactly what a One Health approach to health offers and what it doesn't.