Dr. Blacksher’s recent, ongoing, and forthcoming research includes:
PAPERS
Forthcoming:
- Blacksher E, Wray M, Woolf SH. Health Inequities in White European Americans: Key Systems, Root Causes, and the Legacies of Whiteness. National Academy of Medicine, Systems Impact on Historically and Currently Marginalized Populations (new publication series), accepted June 18, 2024. Forthcoming 2025.
In preparation:
- Blacksher E, with Basel Tarab, Julius Yang, and Jonathan Marron. Participatory Processes and the Pursuit of Social Justice: Opportunities and Challenges in Health Care Settings. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. Forthcoming in a special issue titled, “Delivering on the promise of justice in American health care: What are the challenges and responsibilities of hospitals and health systems?”), in preparation.
- Blacksher E. An Ethical Framework for Intersectional Health Inquiry: Recognition, Resources, and Representation, in preparation.
Recent:
- Burke W, Trinidad SB, Blacksher E. Ethics of Predicting and Preventing Pre-Term Birth. Clinics in Perinatology. 2024;51:511-519. doi.org/10.1016/j.clp.2024.02.007
- Blacksher E, Asada Y, Danis M, Gold M, Kassebaum N, Saint Onge J. Building a “We” with Deliberative Dialogue in Pursuit of Health for All. American Journal of Public Health. 2023;113(10):1110-1113. doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2023.307392
- Blacksher E. Redistribution and Recognition in the Pursuit of Health Justice: An Application of Nancy Fraser’s Critical Theory. In Justice in Global Health, eds. Bhakuni H, Miotto L. Abingdon, Oxford: Routledge, 2023.
RESEARCH & CONSULTATION
HealthCommons. Principal Investigator. This initiative is powered by the belief that democratic deliberation can help build the shared purpose and civic practices we need to address the serious health challenges facing American communities. With funding from County Health Rankings & Roadmaps, Dr. Blacksher and her research team and expert advisors designed and built a community deliberation toolkit. She is now laying the groundwork for a proof-of-concept phase to field test the toolkit.
Fairness Dialogues Field Laboratory (FairLab). Advisor, Collaborator. Led by Dr. Yukiko Asada at the NIH Department of Bioethics, FairLab advances the practice and science of deliberative methods to support a fair distribution of health, a fair health system, and a fair society. Dr. Blacksher has served as an advisor to this project since its inception in January 2023 and has now joined the project as a collaborator.
National Invest Health Cohort Initiative: A One Day Workshop on Public Deliberation. Consultant. Invest Health city teams work to advance health equity by transforming how city leaders work together to help low-income communities thrive. Dr. Blacksher led a one-day workshop in late August to introduce the city teams to public deliberation and how to use it to drive collective decision-making and action in their region.
Center for the Ethics of Indigenous Genomic Research (CEIGR). Consultant. For seven years, Dr. Blacksher collaborated with CEIGR leadership, Indigenous scholars, and Tribal leaders to design, conduct, and assess deliberations that aimed to identify the values, interests, expectations, and needs of American Indian and Alaska Native communities as they relate to genomic research. She has collaborated with teams to design and conduct seven deliberations with Tribal communities, most recently on Navajo Nation.
Research Under Review
Ethics in Action: Enhancing Deliberative Forums for Inclusive Public Health Decision-making. Advisor. Led by Dr. Stephanie Johnson at Oxford University’s Ethox Centre, this project aims to develop and pilot a deliberative model and guidelines to better address value-laden questions in public health.
Developing Consensus on a Practical Framework for Variant Reclassification and Recontact. Co-Investigator. Led by Dr. Sukh Makhnoon at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, this project aims to use deliberative research to develop a framework of principles to guide policy and practice in genetic variant reinterpretation, reclassification and recontact with a focus on variants of uncertain significance, which disproportionately impact genetic ancestral groups underrepresented in genomic datasets.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS & MEETINGS
The Lancet’s Commission on 21st Century Global Threats to Health. Population-Level Bioethics Consultation co-hosted by the Rutgers Center for Population-Level Bioethics and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. Seattle, WA. July 23-26, 2024.
- “An Ethical Framework for Intersectional Health Inquiry: Recognition, Resources, and Representation
- “Call the Ethicist or Deliberate with the Public?”
National Institutes of Health Department of Bioethics. Visiting Scholar. April 22-26, 2024.
- "An Ethical Framework for Intersectional Health Inquiry: Recognition, Resources, and Representation.”
- “Health and Social Justice.” NIH Department of Bioethics First-Year Fellows
Oxford University, Ethox Centre. Theorizing Public Deliberation in Population Health. Oxford, UK. February 14-15, 2024.
- “HealthCommons: Can We Depolarize Public Discourse on Population Health Through Deliberative Dialogue?”
Harvard University School of Medicine. Joint Session of the Harvard Medical School Organizational Ethics Consortium and Clinical Ethics Consortium. December 1, 2023.
- “Public Deliberation: The Ethics, Challenges, and Opportunities in Healthcare Settings.”
Interdisciplinary Association of Population Health Science. Where Ethics and Numbers Meet: Quantitative Intersectionality Research Methods, Panel. Baltimore, MD. October 5, 2023.
- “The Normative Dimensions of Intersectional Health Inequalities.”
NIH Research Festival Week. NIH Health Disparities Committee. Who We Are: The Multiple Dimensions of Race and Ethnicity, Panel. September 19, 2023.
- “Race and Ethnicity as Proxies for Health-Relevant Exposures.” Panelist
RECENT PRESS
