S08E01 Julia O’Brien

Julia O’Brien, former Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Region II Special Geospatial Coordinator, shares how Geographic Information Systems (GIS) strengthen disaster planning and response. She highlights FEMA’s role, the risks of funding cuts, the need for diversity, and the importance of agencies like the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in maintaining public trust.

S08E02 Remaking Bioethics Together

We are thrilled that this podcast is airing right after the 2025 American Society for Bioethics and Humanities meeting.  Our guests discuss what led them to organize that workshop, beginning with an appreciation of how the principlist, individualist approach of bioethics falls short in addressing systemic challenges to equitable healthcare.

S08E03 Karen Meagher

This month we are joined by Dr. Karen Meagher, Assistant Professor of Health Justice and Bioethics at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University. Her research focuses on public health ethics and social implications of advances in microbial and human genetics. Listen in as Dr. Meagher shares her career journey starting with her undergraduate interest in the philosophy of science and social influences of how science gets done. She describes how she was drawn to the growing field of public health ethics, which blossomed in the early 2000s with increasing publications and dedicated journals.

S08E04 Reverend Jackson

We close out Season 8 with a very special episode that is particularly poignant in this holiday season when people of many faiths are called to reflect on our core values. We are joined by Reverend Jackson who is currently the Associate Conference Minister for Justice and Witness Ministries in the Central Atlantic Conference in the United Church of Christ. In this conversation, Reverend Jackson discusses the evolving role of sanctuary churches in the context of immigration and the legal risks they face.