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Keisha Ray

@drkeisharay.bsky.social
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Author of “Black Health: The Social, Political, and Cultural Determinants of Black People’s Health” @oxfordup. Bioethicist. Philosopher. Med school professor. www.KeishaRay.com

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Keisha Ray @drkeisharay.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
$10 on Amazon. Get your copy! a.co/d/4haT7S3
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Keisha Ray @drkeisharay.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Excited! I have a new book contract with Oxford UP to edit the anthology “Dying of Racism: The Ethics of Black Health.” I brought together 17 top Black scholars to write on various social issues affecting Black people’s health. Coming soon!
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Keisha Ray @drkeisharay.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Just two of the many stories that I tell with data and context in my book "Black Health" at a level appropriate for first-time college students learning about the social determinants of health and/or Black health. a.co/d/iAyalhj
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Keisha Ray @drkeisharay.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
“researchers in low and middle income countries and territories (LMICs).” So I believe those who live in the countries.
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Keisha Ray @drkeisharay.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
The Hastings Center for Bioethics opened applications for our new one-year remote opportunity for project-focused mentorship for early-career bioethics researchers from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). www.thehastingscenter.org/bioethics-ca...
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Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Global Bioethics Mentorship Program for Early-Career Bioethics Researchers from LMICs (remote)
Application deadline for 2025-26 Cohort: August 1, 2025  Eligibility FAQs and application The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Global Bioethics
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Keisha Ray @drkeisharay.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
New editorial in AJOB with my colleague Joelle Robertson-Preidler: The Climate is Changing. Should Clinical Ethics Change, Too? bioethicstoday.org/blog/the-cli...
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Blog - The Climate is Changing. Should Clinical Ethics Change, Too? - Bioethics Today
This editorial appears in the  July 2025 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics In June 2021, Dr. Kyle Merritt made international news when he
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Keisha Ray @drkeisharay.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
At AJOB: Bioethicists Must Push Back Against Assaults on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Nancy S. Jecker, Arthur Caplan, Vardit Ravitsky, Patrick Smith, Kayhan Parsi, Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, Faith Fletcher, Mildred Cho, Keisha Ray lnkd.in/g7saphzR
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Keisha Ray @drkeisharay.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
My new editorial at AJOB: Bioethics’ Identity Crisis: Are We Asking It to Be What It Is Not? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Bioethics’ Identity Crisis: Are We Asking It to Be What It Is Not?
Published in The American Journal of Bioethics (Vol. 25, No. 5, 2025)
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Keisha Ray @drkeisharay.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Thank you to the Cheever Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics, and the Bryant family for inviting me to give this year’s Dr. Frank Bryant lecture. Past speakers have been the likes of Alondra Nelson, Dayna Matthew Bowen, Damon Tweedy, David R. Williams so I am honored to be in great company.
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Keisha Ray @drkeisharay.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Today is release day! “Medicine, Meaning, and Identity” Get your copy of the new book edited by Dr. Nathan Carlin and Dr. Keisha Ray where young physicians tell their stories of loss, spiritual crises, political turmoil while training, dating, questioning career paths and more a.co/d/48YArPx
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Keisha Ray @drkeisharay.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Oh just talking about neuroethics in Munich.
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Keisha Ray @drkeisharay.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Thank you Cleveland Clinic for a wonderful visit. Thank you to the outstanding Langston Hughes community center for allowing me to speak about environmental injustices and our health. The personnel at Hughes are wonderful people working hard for their community partners.
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Keisha Ray @drkeisharay.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Thanks, Susan. 🙂
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Keisha Ray @drkeisharay.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Like many of you, I've been struggling with what to say to students My new essay at Bioethics Today: How do we Mentor in This Moment? bioethicstoday.org/blog/how-do-...
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Blog - How do we Mentor in This Moment? - Bioethics Today
I don’t know how to be a good mentor right now and I'm mad about it. Almost as soon as I completed my PhD I was put into mentor roles even though I was in
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Keisha Ray @drkeisharay.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
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Keisha Ray @drkeisharay.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Headed to Springfield medical school and UI Springfield to give 2 talks: “The social and ethical dimensions of Black health and chronic diseases” “Believing our stories: Narrating Black health and health equity”
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Keisha Ray @drkeisharay.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I got 3 dozen eggs I’m never gonna eat. Let’s start the bidding. Mama needs some new clothes.
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Keisha Ray @drkeisharay.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Friday.
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University of Minnesota Center for Bioethics @umnbioethics.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Please join us for our upcoming Ethics Grand Rounds webinar on environmental justice with Keisha Ray, PhD. 🗓️Friday, Feb. 7 ⏱️12-1 p.m. CST. Register Now! It’s free: z.umn.edu/a40u Learn more about the webinar and register at bioethics.umn.edu/events/envir...
Graphic for the event with headshot of Keisha Ray, PhD, title of the event and date and time of the event. Environmental Injustice: The Clinical and Ethical Implications of Our Unhealthy Environments, Feb. 7.
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Keisha Ray @drkeisharay.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
As we continue to celebrate the McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics’s 20th anniversary! Erin Gentry Lamb Please register here: uthealth.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Keisha Ray @drkeisharay.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
I had a post ready about how I’m leveling up in my career this year and all the things I’m gonna do to take it up a level, but since January is already January-ing, nah. My goal this year is to have an easy 2025. Very easy.
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Keisha Ray @drkeisharay.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
As an AJOB Associate Editor I get to do cool things and one was suggesting a special issue on psychedelics after attending the Hopkins-Oxford workshop on psychedelics. Give it a read. It's open access for 60 days! I also have an editorial in the issue. www.tandfonline.com/toc/uajb20/2...
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Keisha Ray @drkeisharay.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
My new open access editorial in The American Society for Bioethics and Humanities “Managing the Hope and Hype of Psychedelics” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Managing the Hope and Hype of Psychedelics
Published in The American Journal of Bioethics (Vol. 25, No. 1, 2025)
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Black Bioethics @blackbioethics.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Join us at the UMN Center for Bioethics Ethics Grand Rounds Webinar, “Environmental Injustice: The Clinical and Ethical Implications of Our Unhealthy Environments” with @drkeisharay.bsky.social 🗓️Friday, 2/7 🕛12-1 CST Register for free: z.umn.edu/a162 Learn more: bioethics.umn.edu/events/envir...
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Samantha Brennan @samanthabrennan.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
It's official! The Public Philosophy Network is accepting proposals for its eighth conference, to be held October 17th-19th, 2025 at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont, sponsored by The/La Collaborative. The theme is Public Philosophy and Social Change: Legacies, Grassroots, and New Directions.
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Keisha Ray @drkeisharay.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
When you’re writing a paper about a demographic that includes you (woman writing about women’s health for example), do you say “we” or “they”? What’s your practice?
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Keisha Ray @drkeisharay.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
It’s one of my faves!
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Keisha Ray @drkeisharay.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Oh I will try this next! Have you read “The Book of M”?
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Keisha Ray @drkeisharay.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Connecting to #booksky. I try to read a for-fun book at least once a month. Young adult fiction/post-apocalyptic, fantasy, sci-fi, who dun it murder mystery, beach reads, stuff like that. Current read:
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Keisha Ray @drkeisharay.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Oh thanks!
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Keisha Ray @drkeisharay.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Not recent but still getting cited: philpapers.org/rec/RAYNJS
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Keisha Shantel Ray, Not Just “Study Drugs” for the Rich: Stimulants as Moral Tools for Creating Opportunities for Socially Disadvantaged Students - PhilPapers
An argument in the cognitive enhancement literature is that using stimulants in populations of healthy but socially disadvantaged individuals mistakenly attributes pathology to nonpathological individ...
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Jeremy Snyder @jsnyder.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
The bioethics/applied health ethics/public health ethics starter pack is full (150 people!). Rather than removing less active folks or gatekeeping I'll start another one - so keep letting me know if you're interested in being listed or see anyone who should be added. go.bsky.app/ERXDCeB
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Keisha Ray @drkeisharay.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
#bioethics
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Keisha Ray @drkeisharay.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
And add me! Thank you for doing this!
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Keisha Ray @drkeisharay.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Just what I was looking for!
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Keisha Ray @drkeisharay.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Friends, I am no longer accepting essays for Bioethics Today via email. Please use the website to submit so we can follow protocol and you can answer some basic questions about your submission. bioethicstoday.org/submit-guest...
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Submit a Blog Post - Bioethics Today
Publish a blog post on the Bioethics Today website
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Keisha Ray @drkeisharay.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Hello!!
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Shelley Lynn Tremain she/her/they @shelleytremain.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Still time to register for Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5 which takes place Dec. 11-13, 13:00-18:00 (UK time)! info in the post! biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2024/11/22/p...
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Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5 (#PhiDisSocCh5), Unapologetically Online, December 11-13, 2024: Final Program and Registration Information
Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5 is free, will unapologetically take place online, and is open to everyone! This conference is co-organized by Shelley Tremain and Jonathan Wolff, with the…
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Keisha Ray @drkeisharay.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
New book!
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Keisha Ray @drkeisharay.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
You’re right. The roots are racism, but yes there are different types. Medical racism is specifically when racism affects your health in clinical contexts.
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Keisha Ray @drkeisharay.bsky.social · 17/03/2024
I often begin my work with my own personal stories of medical racism and I’m always surprised at how many people are shocked that I experience it even after becoming a Black health researcher. Medical racism knows no class or professional bounds. It can harm any person of color.
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Keisha Ray @drkeisharay.bsky.social · 20/02/2024
“We Are Not Okay: Moral Injury and a World on Fire” AJOB If you’ve never read anything I’ve written, this is the one you should read. Short editorial for AJOB about being human in a world ablaze. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Keisha Ray @drkeisharay.bsky.social · 11/02/2024
Great review of my book “ Black Health” from Erica Bigelow. bioethicstoday.org/blog/black-h...
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Black Health is Black Bioethics: A Review of Black Health by Keisha Ray
Black Health calls for bioethicists, academics, medical practitioners, and the general public to take Black people’s health seriously as a matter of justice.
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Keisha Ray @drkeisharay.bsky.social · 10/01/2024
was on @npr.org Morning Edition talking about medical privacy and even Secretary Defense Austin’s right to privacy but separating this from workplace requirements. one.npr.org?sharedMediaI...
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🔊 Listen Now: Medical ethics: Does the public need to know why Austin was hospitalized?
Morning Edition on NPR One | 4:17
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Keisha Ray @drkeisharay.bsky.social · 07/01/2024
My biggest new year resolution is to do 1 thing at a time. I often do things like eat, scroll on my phone, and watch tv at the same time all while not giving adequate attention to either. Multi-tasking is a great skill but it’s not always necessary or joyful. I’m trying!
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Keisha Ray @drkeisharay.bsky.social · 05/11/2023
“Black Health” is on the list! Thanks Health Affairs! On Our Reading List: 10 Books About Racism And Health www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/f...
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Keisha Ray @drkeisharay.bsky.social · 22/10/2023
MY NEW PUB: “When Black Health, Intersectionality, and Health Equity Meet a Pandemic” in Journal of Bioethical Inquiry It’s particularly suitable for the classroom. rdcu.be/doJrQ
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When Black Health, Intersectionality, and Health Equity Meet a Pandemic
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Keisha Ray @drkeisharay.bsky.social · 13/10/2023
What a time! Thankful! #ASBH24
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Keisha Ray @drkeisharay.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
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Keisha Ray @drkeisharay.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
Keisha Ray, PHD, John P. McGovern, MD Professor of Oslerian Medicine Has a nice endowed chair ring to it 🙂
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