Racial Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Bioethics: Recommendations from the Association of Bioethics Program Directors Presidential Task Force
Recent calls to address racism in bioethics reflect a sense of urgency to mitigate the lethal effects of a lack of action. While the field was catalyzed largely in response to pivotal events deeply rooted in racism and other structures of oppression embedded in research and health care, it has failed to center racial justice in its scholarship, pedagogy, advocacy, and practice, and neglected to integrate anti-racism as a central consideration. Academic bioethics programs play a key role in determining the field's norms and practices, including methodologies, funding priorities, and professional networks that bear on equity, inclusion, and epistemic justice. This article describes recommendations from the Racial Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (REDI) Task Force commissioned by the Association of Bioethics Program Directors to prioritize and strengthen anti-racist practices in bioethics programmatic endeavors and to evaluate and develop specific goals to advance REDI.
Authors
- Faith E. Fletcher (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8075-6112)
- Christine Mitchell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8211-281X)
- Clarence H. Braddock (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3150-4362)
- Alexis Walker (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8316-2571)
- Renee McLeod‐Sordjan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1952-2792)
- Jennifer E. James (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6240-3487)
- Shawneequa Callier (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1007-333X)
- Ubaka Ogbogu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7764-6799)
- Nneka Sederstrom (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-7512-3044)
- Sandra Soo‐Jin Lee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2312-9814)
- Nanibaa’ A. Garrison (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6228-3216)
- Charlene Galarneau (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6973-2232)
- Patrick T. Smith (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4818-6946)
Institutions
- Harvard University (US)
- Hofstra University (US)
- University of Alberta (CA)
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- Duke University (US)
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- Baylor College of Medicine (US)
- George Washington University (US)
- Harvard University Press (US)
- National Human Genome Research Institute (US)
- Institute on Aging (US)
- Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute (US)
- Columbia University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The American Journal of Bioethics
- Published
- 2024-08-05
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2024.2371116
- Citations
- 22
- Primary Topic
- Diversity and Career in Medicine
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 20.45