Interview with Dr. Jennifer James

Jennifer James, PhD, MSW, MSSP is an Assistant Professor in the Institute for Health and Aging, the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, and the Bioethics program at UCSF. She recently received a 3-year Greenwall Foundation Faculty Scholar Award. Her qualitative research with a Black Feminist focus explores a range of topics at the intersection of race, gender and health. Kirk and Amelia ask her about her work on the role of bioethics in the face of mass incarceration and on health and healthcare in the carceral system. Her publication on this topic in the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics can be found here: https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/ijfab-14.2.05. Dr. James also shares her wisdom on the current reckoning in bioethics on our role in addressing racism. Her thoughts on centering racism as a first step can be found in the American Journal of Bioethics here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33534684/.