History, Ethics, and Public Health: An Interview with Dr. Laura Bothwell

Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine

With its unique history filled with both triumphs and dark chapters, public health researchers and professionals have an ethical responsibility to examine the past as they aspire to shape the future of public health by conducting effective and ethical health-related research and work today. In this episode, Shivani interviews the esteemed ethicist and historian of Public Health, Dr. Laura Bothwell, who discusses how the history of public health has influenced the present. In this informative conversation, Dr. Bothwell sheds light on the weight of history, and discusses the structural obligation that health professionals have to address inequities and institutional biases and their contribution to many of the public health challenges we face today. Here are some links with more reading related to Dr. Bothwell’s research: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMms1604593 https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMp1604635 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781119413431.ch31 More about YJBM at: https://medicine.yale.edu/yjbm/ Our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theyjbm/