S06E01 Dr. Anita Allen

We were incredibly honored to have Dr. Anita Allen join us to speak about the concept of privacy, reproductive justice, and racial justice concerns in what Dr. Allen has termed “The Black Opticon”. Dr. Allen, the Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, also spoke about her experience experiences working on President Obama’s Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues.

S06E02 Dr. Mark Kuczewski

Amelia and Kirk have a discussion about nonprofit healthcare with Dr. Kuczewski, the Father Michael I. English S.J. Professor of Medical Ethics at Loyola University, Chicago, the director of the Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy, and a Fellow of the Hastings Center. This episode covers issues like the corporatization of workplace culture, providing healthcare to the American public regardless of immigration status, and organizational ethics.

S06E03 Dr. Deepshikha Ashana

Kirk and Amelia speak with Dr. Deepshikha Ashana about her research on racial disparities present in shared decision-making practices in critical care. Dr. Ashana shares how her research interests were motivated by her personal observations of racial disparities, from her childhood in India, her experience moving to the US, and her education in Philadelphia. Her recent research thematically analyzed audio recordings of conversations between families and clinicians of critical care patients, using inductive analysis to identify four ways that communication behaviors differed in clinicians’ engagement with racially minoritized families.

S06E04 Lynette Martins

In this episode, Amelia and Kirk speak with Lynette Martins who is co-leader of the ASBH immigration affinity group with Dr. Brian Tuohy and a recent graduate from Georgetown Law’s O’Neill Institute in national and global health law. Ms. Martins highlights the importance of Medical-Legal Partnerships in identifying and addressing both direct and indirect impacts that legal issues and policy have on health and healthcare access and outcomes. MLP’s are particularly helpful for addressing the Social Determinants of Health, the non-medical conditions in the environments in which we live, learn, work, and play that can negatively influence patient outcomes. MLP’s provide collaborative spaces for interdisciplinary dialogue, enhancing individual patient care while also helping healthcare institutions address recurrent issues that may be impacting specific patient populations.

S06E05 Asha Hassan

In this episode, Kirk and Amelia speak with Asha Hassan, MPH, a doctoral candidate at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. Together, they discuss her recent work on the link between exposure to tear gas during the 2020 protests for racial justice and consequent reproductive health issues. Asha explores the lack of sufficient policy innovation about banning chemical agents in protest settings as well as how systemic racism and ableism lead to patterns of healthcare underutilization.