Volume 21/1, June 2019, pp 163 – 177 PDF Sarah S. Willen Abstract In 2013–14, the Smithsonian-affiliated David J. Sencer Museum at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, hosted an original exhibition with an eye-catching title: “Health Is a Human Right: Race and Place in America.” Given the American government’s entrenched resistance to health-related human rights claims, the staging of an exhibition with this…
INTRODUCTION Invoking Health and Human Rights in the United States: Museums, Classrooms, and Community-Based Participatory Research
Volume 21/1, June 2019, pp 157 – 162 PDF Sarah S. Willen The United States is rough terrain for those aiming to stake health-related human rights claims on domestic soil. Less than a decade ago, the passage of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), which was designed as a massive expansion of insurance-based health coverage, led some health and human rights scholars to wax optimistic. The ACA—the…
STUDENT PAPER Addressing Ethical Quandaries in Undergraduate Student-Led Global Health Trips: Design, Implementation, and Challenges of Guidelines by Students for Students
Volume 21/1, June 2019, pp 149- 156 PDF Jacob Armato, Laura Block, Mason Flannagan, Eric Obscherning, and Lori Diprete Brown Introduction Interest in global health at American universities has increased dramatically over the past 15 years.1 International fieldwork is an integral component of global health programming, with students traveling for humanitarian reasons, learning opportunities, and a need to meet graduate program admissions requirements.2 For example, 73% of American medical schools…
STUDENT PAPER Ethical Challenges in Medical Community Internships: Perspectives from Medical Interns in the Philippines
Volume 21/1, June 2019, pp 141 – 147 PDF Aimee Lorraine C. Capinpuyan and Red Thaddeus D. Miguel Abstract The Philippine community internship program, originally created to supplement the country’s thinning health workforce while providing training to student doctors, poses a legal and ethical challenge for medical interns. Inherent characteristics of the program—such as financial disparities and burdens, the lack of supervision by senior doctors, the competence of student doctors,…
COMMENTARY #MeToo Meets Global Health: A Call to Action
Volume 21/1, June 2019, pp 133 – 139 PDF A Statement by Participants of the Global Health Fieldwork Ethics Workshop, April 2018 This statement arose from discussions during the Global Health Fieldwork Ethics Workshop held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA in April 2018, co-sponsored by Agnes Scott College, The Taskforce for Global Health, and Emory University Rollins School of Public Health. As participants from a wide range of academic and global…
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COMMENTARY Where There Is No Hashtag: Considering Gender-Based Violence in Global Health Fieldwork in the Time of #MeToo
Volume 21/1, June 2019, pp 129 – 132 PDF Rachel Hall-Clifford In global health, we prioritize work where there is no doctor—often in remote and sometimes dangerous places—and certainly where there is no #MeToo hashtag, no groundswell of activism to support women’s rights. In such contexts, women in the field face distinct challenges. Through sharing my own experiences, I hope to encourage open dialogue and action to address gender-based violence…
The Lived Experience of Global Public Health Practice: A Phenomenological Account of Women Graduate Students
Volume 21/1, June 2019, pp 115 – 127 PDF Corey McAuliffe, Ross Upshur, Daniel W. Sellen, and Erica Di Ruggiero Abstract There is a dearth of research that aims to understand graduate students’ lived experience of global health practice. Difficulties, distress, and trauma occur before and after these students’ placement abroad, and they often increase when returning home. Moreover, few articles address the increased vulnerabilities faced by women, such as…
Witnessing Obstetric Violence during Fieldwork: Notes from Latin America
Volume 21/1, June 2019, pp 103 – 113 PDF Arachu Castro Abstract Violence against women in labor occurs frequently in Latin America, based on observations from my extensive ethnographic fieldwork in various Latin American countries. In this article, focused on Mexico and the Dominican Republic, I contextualize obstetric violence within the larger context of social exclusion and discrimination against women. I establish associations between maternal deaths and health care systems…
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Documenting the Impact of Conflict on Women Living in Internally Displaced Persons Camps in Sri Lanka: Some Ethical Considerations
Volume 21/1, June 2019, pp 93 – 101 PDF Shana Swiss, Peggy J. Jennings, K. G. K. Weerarathne, and Lori Heise Abstract Women’s Rights International works with rural women and girls who are living in countries at war or with ongoing political violence. In 2005, The Asia Foundation invited Women’s Rights International to Sri Lanka to evaluate the feasibility of a random-sample survey of women to document the impact of…
Ethical Considerations for Disseminating Research Findings on Gender-Based Violence, Armed Conflict, and Mental Health: A Case Study from Rural Uganda
Volume 21/1, June 2019, pp 81 – 92 PDF Jennifer J. Mootz, Lauren Taylor, Milton L. Wainberg, and Kaveh Khoshnood Abstract Gender-based violence (GBV) is a major public health problem that is exacerbated in armed conflict settings. While specialized guidelines exist for conducting research with GBV, guidance on disseminating findings from GBV research is scant. This paper describes ethical considerations of designing and disseminating research findings on GBV, armed conflict,…