A leader in the field of Black bioethics will discuss her work in Black health and health equity in an online presentation at 6 p.m. Monday, March 18.
Keisha S. Ray earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Utah and is an associate professor with the McGovern Center for Humanities & Ethics at the University of Texas at Houston. Ray will discuss the vital importance of studies of Black health and health equity including Black people’s testimonials and narratives of their experiences seeking healthcare and their interactions with the social institutions that influence their generally poorer health outcomes.
This virtual talk is free and open to the public. To attend, please register online.
This presentation is the first of three-part virtual speaker series entitled “Telling the Stories of the Health Humanities.”
Other speakers in the series are:
- April 4: MK Czerwiec, one of the co-founders of the field of graphic medicine, who will provide an introduction to graphic medicine and a dynamic discussion of how comics can improve our health and healthcare.
- April 10: Christine Montross, a medical doctor who will speak about the shared territory of writing and medicine, public advocacy and the criminalization of mental illness.
You can register for all events in the series at https://linktr.ee/detroitmercyhealthhumanities.
This project is made possible in part by University of Detroit Mercy’s Titan Innovation Fund and ReBUILDetroit (NIH). It is co-sponsored by the Health Humanities Minor Development Committee; the Colleges of Liberal Arts & Education, Engineering & Science, and Health Professions; Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion; Office of Mission Integration; Philosophy Department and African American Studies Program.