Prof Ian Sabroe and Dr Dieter Declercq talk to Dr Keisha Ray about her ground-breaking work in Black bioethics, her journey to studying Black people's health, and what she wants the world to know about Black health.
Keisha Ray, PhD received her PhD in philosophy from the University of Utah and is currently an assistant professor with the McGovern Center for Humanities & Ethics at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Most of Dr. Ray’s work focuses on the social and cultural determinants of Black people’s health, integrating race education into medical school curricula, and the ethics of biomedical enhancement. She has contributed to peer-reviewed journals like Journal of Medical Humanities and Pediatrics, as well as edited volumes, and textbooks. She currently has a monograph in progress on Black people’s health contracted with Oxford University Press. Dr. Ray also serves as an associate editor of the American Journal of Bioethics blog site to which she is a regular contributor.
