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Jill A. Fisher and Maral Erol are co-authors, with colleague Edwin H. Kim, on a new article in Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. The researchers interviewed providers in community practice or academic medical centers. They asked providers about “their perceptions of the risks and benefits of current and future FA treatment options,” with a focus on biologics. While … Read more

Since the June 2022 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, 18 states have put functional abortion bans in place. New research fills a gap in understanding impacts on physicians after these bans. Mara Buchbinder, Kavita S. Arora and colleagues identify sources of moral distress impacting physicians. Moral distress occurs when … Read more

In the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), Dr. Jon Oberlander tackles these policy issues in a new Perspective piece titled “Health Care Reform and the 2024 U.S. Elections — Low Visibility, High Stakes.” Oberlander is a professor and chair in UNC’s Department of Social Medicine and a professor of health policy and management at … Read more

Through an analysis of 500+ FDA-authorized AI medical devices, Sammy Chouffani El Fassi, a MD candidate at the UNC School of Medicine and researcher at Duke Heart Center, and Gail E. Henderson, PhD, professor of social medicine at UNC-Chapel Hill, discovered a lack of published clinical validation data for many authorized devices and established a … Read more

Building on their recent research, Mara Buchbinder, PhD, professor and vice chair of Social Medicine, and Kavita Arora, MD, director of the UNC Division of General Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Midwifery, published a viewpoint article in JAMA about how institutions can support OBGYNs in states with the most restrictive abortion laws.   Supporting OB-GYNs in Abortion-Restrictive … Read more

Jill Fisher,  Professor of Social Medicine and Core Faculty in the Center for Bioethics, has co-authored a new study ranking research universities’ support for academic couples, including for partner hires.  Fisher’s work with Torin Monahan on dual-career academic couples was featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Ed.   Do Institutions Support … Read more

Jonathan Oberlander, Chair and Professor of Social Medicine and Professor of Health Policy & Management, is editor of a new special issue in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law on Polarization, Partisanship, and Health in the United States. In the lead essay, Oberlander argues that partisan divisions between Democrats and Republicans are reshaping U.S. health … Read more

Anne Drapkin Lyerly, MD, professor of Social Medicine, core faculty in the Center of Bioethics, and research professor in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the UNC School of Medicine, is lead author of “Beneath the Sword of Damocles: Moral Obligations of Physicians in a Post-Dobbs Landscape.” Lyerly is Lead Author of Article In The Hastings Center … Read more

Dr. Mara Buchbinder has been named as 1 of 13 new fellows elected by The Hastings Center for 2023. Hastings Center Welcomes 13 New Fellows