$10 on Amazon. Get your copy!

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Excited! I have a new book contract with Oxford UP to edit the anthology “Dying of Racism: The Ethics of Black Health.”

I brought together 17 top Black scholars to write on various social issues affecting Black people’s health. Coming soon!

Just two of the many stories that I tell with data and context in my book "Black Health" at a level appropriate for first-time college students learning about the social determinants of health and/or Black health.

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“researchers in low and middle income countries and territories (LMICs).” So I believe those who live in the countries.

Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Global Bioethics Mentorship Program for Early-Career Bioethics Researchers from LMICs (remote) Application deadline for 2025-26 Cohort: August 1, 2025  Eligibility FAQs and application The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Global Bioethics

The Hastings Center for Bioethics opened applications for our new one-year remote opportunity for project-focused mentorship for early-career bioethics researchers from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).

www.thehastingscenter.org/bioethics-ca...

Blog - The Climate is Changing. Should Clinical Ethics Change, Too? - Bioethics Today This editorial appears in the  July 2025 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics In June 2021, Dr. Kyle Merritt made international news when he

New editorial in AJOB with my colleague Joelle Robertson-Preidler:

The Climate is Changing. Should Clinical Ethics Change, Too?

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At AJOB:

Bioethicists Must Push Back Against Assaults on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Nancy S. Jecker, Arthur Caplan, Vardit Ravitsky, Patrick Smith, Kayhan Parsi, Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, Faith Fletcher, Mildred Cho, Keisha Ray

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Bioethics’ Identity Crisis: Are We Asking It to Be What It Is Not? Published in The American Journal of Bioethics (Vol. 25, No. 5, 2025)

My new editorial at AJOB:

Bioethics’ Identity Crisis: Are We Asking It to Be What It Is Not?

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thank you to the Cheever Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics, and the Bryant family for inviting me to give this year’s Dr. Frank Bryant lecture. Past speakers have been the likes of Alondra Nelson, Dayna Matthew Bowen, Damon Tweedy, David R. Williams so I am honored to be in great company.

Today is release day!

“Medicine, Meaning, and Identity”

Get your copy of the new book edited by Dr. Nathan Carlin and Dr. Keisha Ray where young physicians tell their stories of loss, spiritual crises, political turmoil while training, dating, questioning career paths and more

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Oh just talking about neuroethics in Munich.

Thank you Cleveland Clinic for a wonderful visit. Thank you to the outstanding Langston Hughes community center for allowing me to speak about environmental injustices and our health. The personnel at Hughes are wonderful people working hard for their community partners.

Thanks, Susan. 🙂

Blog - How do we Mentor in This Moment? - Bioethics Today I don’t know how to be a good mentor right now and I'm mad about it. Almost as soon as I completed my PhD I was put into mentor roles even though I was in

Like many of you, I've been struggling with what to say to students

My new essay at Bioethics Today:

How do we Mentor in This Moment?

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Headed to Springfield medical school and UI Springfield to give 2 talks:

“The social and ethical dimensions of Black health and chronic diseases”

“Believing our stories: Narrating Black health and health equity”

I got 3 dozen eggs I’m never gonna eat. Let’s start the bidding. Mama needs some new clothes.

Friday.

Graphic for the event with headshot of Keisha Ray, PhD, title of the event and date and time of the event. Environmental Injustice: The Clinical and Ethical Implications of Our Unhealthy Environments, Feb. 7.

Please join us for our upcoming Ethics Grand Rounds webinar on environmental justice with Keisha Ray, PhD.

🗓️Friday, Feb. 7 ⏱️12-1 p.m. CST.

Register Now! It’s free: z.umn.edu/a40u

Learn more about the webinar and register at bioethics.umn.edu/events/envir...

As we continue to celebrate the McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics’s 20th anniversary! Erin Gentry Lamb

Please register here: uthealth.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

I had a post ready about how I’m leveling up in my career this year and all the things I’m gonna do to take it up a level, but since January is already January-ing, nah. My goal this year is to have an easy 2025. Very easy.

As an AJOB Associate Editor I get to do cool things and one was suggesting a special issue on psychedelics after attending the Hopkins-Oxford workshop on psychedelics. Give it a read. It's open access for 60 days! I also have an editorial in the issue.

www.tandfonline.com/toc/uajb20/2...

Managing the Hope and Hype of Psychedelics Published in The American Journal of Bioethics (Vol. 25, No. 1, 2025)

My new open access editorial in The American Society for Bioethics and Humanities

“Managing the Hope and Hype of Psychedelics”

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Join us at the UMN Center for Bioethics Ethics Grand Rounds Webinar, “Environmental Injustice: The Clinical and Ethical Implications of Our Unhealthy Environments” with @drkeisharay.bsky.social

🗓️Friday, 2/7
🕛12-1 CST

Register for free: z.umn.edu/a162
Learn more: bioethics.umn.edu/events/envir...

It's official! The Public Philosophy Network is accepting proposals for its eighth conference, to be held October 17th-19th, 2025 at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont, sponsored by The/La Collaborative.
The theme is Public Philosophy and Social Change: Legacies, Grassroots, and New Directions.

When you’re writing a paper about a demographic that includes you (woman writing about women’s health for example), do you say “we” or “they”? What’s your practice?

It’s one of my faves!

Oh I will try this next! Have you read “The Book of M”?

Connecting to #booksky. I try to read a for-fun book at least once a month. Young adult fiction/post-apocalyptic, fantasy, sci-fi, who dun it murder mystery, beach reads, stuff like that. Current read:

Oh thanks!