Assistant Professor Dr. Stephen Molldrem is senior author on a recent publication in the journal Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics with first author Dr. Rebecca Permar. Dr. Permar is a graduate of the UTMB Bioethics and Health Humanities PhD program. The paper describes methods used in an empirical bioethics project about stakeholders’ views on uses of genomic sequencing for tuberculosis (TB) in Botswana. The team created an animated video series used to educate participants about the many uses of this complex technology in the management of TB. This research was funded by an NIH bioethics supplement project directed by Dr. Molldrem.
Dr. Miriam Rich's first book, Monstrous Conceptions (Columbia University Press, July 2026), traces the history of "monstrosity" as a formal scientific category in American medicine and examines how that category shaped enduring ideas about race, sex, and disability.
Helen-Margaret Onuorah, a recent UTMB MD/MPH graduate, published a Daily Yonder analysis comparing rural and urban nursing home staffing and health inspection ratings across Texas.
Congratulations to our 2026 PhD in Bioethics and Health Humanities graduates from UTMB's School of Public and Population Health (SPPH): Hannah Carpenter and Georgia Loutrianakis.
This award will support Dr. Gupta’s DIVA-AI Laboratory, which focuses on integrating multimodal and multiscale biomedical data to develop improved decision-support tools for clinical and public health applications.
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