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Bioethicists Must Push Back Against Assaults on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Nine leading bioethicists, including Hastings Center President Vardit Ravitsky, call for bioethics to affirm its core commitment to justice and act against the dismantling of diversity, equity, and inclusion. In an editorial published in the American Journal of Bioethics, they highlight the current administration’s broadside attack against diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in higher education, the federal government, and the private sector. “Years of research and data gathering have shown that removing barriers facing marginalized groups improves population health and promotes health justice,” they write.
They unpack the attacks against DEI, discuss their implications, highlight the essential role these concepts play in bioethics, and call for a bold, collective response from the field.
In addition to Ravitsky, the authors are Nancy S. Jecker (University of Washington School of Medicine), Arthur Caplan (NYU Langone Medical Center, Hastings Center Fellow), Patrick Smith (Duke University, Hastings Center Fellow), Kayhan Parsi (Loyola University Chicago), Sandra Soo-Jin Lee (Columbia University, Hastings Center Fellow), Faith Fletcher (Baylor College of Medicine, Hastings Center Fellow), Mildred Cho (Stanford University, Hastings Center Fellow), and Keisha Ray (UT Health Houston, Hastings Center Fellow).
