Discipline(s):
Bioethics
Area(s) of Expertise:
Public Health Ethics, Ethics of Health Promotion, Theories of Social Justice as they Relate to Population Health, Children's Health Inequalities, Health Care Disparities
E-Mail:
blackshere@thehastingscenter.org
Background:
Erika Blacksher joined the Hastings Center as a Research Scholar in Fall 2008 after two years as a Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar at Columbia University. Her research agenda examines the ethical and policy implications of the social determinants of health and the well-documented and widening social inequalities in U.S. population health. She is particularly interested in questions related to health system reform, children’s health inequalities and the developmental origins of health, theories of health justice, and the ethics and politics of health promotion. In addition to her work in normative ethics, Dr. Blacksher has developed a line of empirical inquiry to identify the public’s values and priorities as they relate to social inequalities in health. She has published in leading bioethics journals on topics that include disparities in health and health care, healthy behavior policies, and children’s health inequalities, among other topics. She holds a Ph.D. in bioethics from the University of Virginia and undergraduate degrees in both philosophy and journalism from the University of Kansas.
Journal Articles:
Click here for a list of Erika Blacksher's available publications.
