Public health/Clinical research

  • State of the Art and Science
    Mar 2021

    Piloting and Scaling a Good Health Equity Evidence Base From Big Data

    Stephen Lockhart, MD, PhD
    One health system’s development and validation of inequity measures across patient groups demonstrates an approach that could be nationally scalable.
    AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(3):E252-257. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.252.
  • Original Research
    Mar 2021

    African American Nurses’ Perspectives on Genomic Medicine Research

    Rachele M. Hendricks-Sturrup, DHSc, MSc, MA, Lauren M. Edgar, MSN Ed, RN, Tracey Johnson-Glover, MSN, RN, and Christine Y. Lu, PhD, MSc
    Recent popular interest in Henrietta Lacks has prompted interest in better engaging AA nurses and communities.
    AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(3):E240-251. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.240.
  • History of Medicine
    Feb 2021

    How Ancestral Trauma Informs Patients’ Health Decision Making

    Tina K. Sacks, PhD, Katie Savin, MSW, and Quenette L. Walton, PhD, LCSW
    Would you question health decisions made by a 37-year old Black woman whose great-grandfather died in the US Public Health Service Syphilis Study at Tuskegee?
    AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(2):E183-188. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.183.
  • Medicine and Society
    Oct 2020

    Holding Space for All of Us

    Julie E. Lucero, PhD, MPH and Yvette Roubideaux, MD, MPH
    Concepts of “governance,” “trust,” and “culture” can help strengthen research partnerships, honor tribal sovereign authority, counter histories of opportunism, and recognize alternative ways of knowing.
    AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(10):E882-887. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.882.
  • State of the Art and Science
    Jan 2020

    Making Emergency Use of Experimental Vaccines Safer

    Archana Asundi, MD and Nahid Bhadelia, MD
    How would gathering preclinical data and improving research infrastructure facilitate clearer definitions of “population vulnerability” and “risk acceptability”?
    AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(1):E43-49. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.43.
  • Medicine and Society
    Dec 2019

    What Should Clinicians Do to Engage the Public About Gene Editing?

    Tom Alsaigh, MD, Laura Nicholson, MD, PhD, and Eric Topol, MD
    Clinicians should have a working understanding of gene editing, controversy surrounding its use, and its far-reaching clinical and ethical implications.
    AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(12):E1089-1097. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.1089.
  • Medical Education
    Sep 2019

    How Should Schools Respond to Learners’ Demands for Global Health Training?

    Claudia O. Gambrah-Sampaney, MD, Jesse E. Passman, MD, MPH, Andrielle Yost, MPA, and Glen N. Gaulton, PhD
    In the past decade, more students than ever entered medical school with the desire, if not the expectation, of participating in meaningful global health experiences.
    AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(9):E772-777. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.772.