Policy, Politics, Public Health, Vaccines
The Orwellification of the CDC
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength” (George Orwell, 1984) According to the CDC w...
Subject: Public Health
Policy, Politics, Public Health
Revoking Pedestrian Safety Grants is a Matter of Health, Not Just Policy
The health of our society is a social determinant of health. This means that political happenings in our country that in...
Public Health, Vaccines
The Elimination of Mandated Vaccines in Florida Means an Elimination of Global Immunity
On September 3rd, 2025, the state of Florida announced plans to eliminate all mandated vaccines, including those require...
Policy, Politics, Public Health, Reproductive Ethics
The Dark Side of Wearables: A Potential Fertility Surveillance Network
While there is an abundance of literature noting the risks of period tracking apps in jurisdictions with strict abortion...
Public Health
Content Moderation as a Public Health Concern: When LGBTQ+ People Are Harmed Online
As a bioethicist, what comes to mind when you hear “public health”? Maybe you think of the COVID pandemic or an HIV outb...
Environmental Ethics, Public Health
Protecting Earth: Not From Us, Not For Us, But With Us
Hello, fellow earthly citizen. I don’t know your offline identity, but I stumbled across your Reddit post late one night...
Health Regulation & Law, Politics, Public Health
Slouching Toward Kakistocracy: Experts Need Not Apply
Anti-intellectualism runs deep in American society. The cabinet picks of the current administration reflect this sentime...
Health Care, Health Policy & Insurance, Health Regulation & Law, Public Health
Death of a Healthcare CEO: Physical Violence, Structural Violence and Social (In)justice
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhuman because it often results ...
Ethics, Public Health, Social Media
Poverty, Puritanism, and Popularity: The Resurgence of Eugenics through Viral Content Onli...
It began with a video of a pregnant mother narrating over a sped-up video of her rearranging kitchen furniture. She expl...
Editorial-AJOB, Health Disparities, Public Health
When Worlds Collide: The Problem of Health Inequities and Anti-Immigrant Politics
This editorial appears in the November 2024 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics Seeing language barrier...
Cultural, Public Health
Why Can’t we Admit Age is a (Biologically) Meaningful Number?
If there’s one phrase the June 2024 U.S. presidential debate may entirely eliminate from the English vocabulary it’s tha...
Drugs, LGBTQ ethics, Public Health
To Queer(y) Addiction
Even as the opioid crisis gains increased attention in the U.S., there remains a prevalent stereotype that associates su...