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Jill Fisher explains how clinical drug trials attract disproportionate participation by racial and ethnic minorities who then disproportionately assume risks of participating in these trials, often just to stay financially afloat. Listen to podcast here https://pennreg.org/episode-6/?fbclid=IwAR31bTRJrLtX23iahfnn17I7PF_Sfcn0XeP9DzBeW9E6ylLpVsn_3DzDCxU

Jill Fisher, PhD, Professor, in the Department of Social Medicine and Core Faculty, Center for Bioethics, has been awarded the 2022 Donald W. Light Award for Applied or Public Practice of Medical Sociology for her book Adverse Events: Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals. The Donald W. Light award...

Tonia Poteat, PhD, PA-C, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Social Medicine, Core Faculty Center for Health Equity Research. Publishes in American Heart Association: Why the world of LGBTQ health doesn’t fit under a single label. Why the world of LGBTQ health doesn’t fit under a single label

Jill Fisher, Ph.D., Professor in the Department of Social Medicine and Center for Bioethics, was elected to a 3-year term as Chair of the Science, Knowledge, and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association. https://www.asanet.org/about/governance-and-leadership/election

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law Call for Papers The Political Economy of Vaccines During the COVID-19 Pandemic After the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic and the heavy losses suffered across the globe, the availability of multiple effective vaccines seemed like a miracle—a way to prevent wide-scale suffering...

Health Care Reform under the Biden Administration — Broad Ambitions, Narrow Majorities – Dr. Jonathan Oberlander (The New England Journal of Medicine)

Joint Postdoctoral Fellowship in Clinical Ethics and the ELSI of Precision Medicine Call for Applications: The University of North Carolina (UNC) Center for Genomics and Society (CGS) and the Center for Bioethics (C:B), together with the Program for Precision Medicine in Health Care (PPMH), announce a joint postdoctoral position in...

Research led by Donald Pathman, MD, MPH, and Jeffrey Sonis, MD, MPH, published in Public Health Reports shows the trauma to healthcare clinicians in low-income communities. Continue reading

Co-edited by Claudia S.P. Fernandez, DrPH, and Giselle Corbie, MD, healthcare experts from nurses to social workers present a way forward which shifts away from our fragmented and often judgmental approach to health in the new book Leading Community Based Changes in the Culture of Health in the US –...

Rebecca L. Walker, PhD and Jill A. Fisher, PhD from the Department of Social Medicine have published a new survey that identifies how researchers using vertebrate animals viewed issues of significance for translational science. https://news.unchealthcare.org/2021/12/walker-fisher-publish-survey-of-u-s-biomedical-researchers/