Keisha Ray
@drkeisharay.bsky.social
Author of “Black Health: The Social, Political, and Cultural Determinants of Black People’s Health” @oxfordup.
Bioethicist. Philosopher. Med school professor. www.KeishaRay.com
Bioethicist. Philosopher. Med school professor. www.KeishaRay.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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!
I brought together 17 top Black scholars to write on various social issues affecting Black people’s health. Coming soon!
September 11, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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!
I brought together 17 top Black scholars to write on various social issues affecting Black people’s health. Coming soon!
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.
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July 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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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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...
www.thehastingscenter.org/bioethics-ca...
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
www.thehastingscenter.org
July 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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...
www.thehastingscenter.org/bioethics-ca...
New editorial in AJOB with my colleague Joelle Robertson-Preidler:
The Climate is Changing. Should Clinical Ethics Change, Too?
bioethicstoday.org/blog/the-cli...
The Climate is Changing. Should Clinical Ethics Change, Too?
bioethicstoday.org/blog/the-cli...
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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July 13, 2025 at 5:16 PM
New editorial in AJOB with my colleague Joelle Robertson-Preidler:
The Climate is Changing. Should Clinical Ethics Change, Too?
bioethicstoday.org/blog/the-cli...
The Climate is Changing. Should Clinical Ethics Change, Too?
bioethicstoday.org/blog/the-cli...
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
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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
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June 20, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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
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
My new editorial at AJOB:
Bioethics’ Identity Crisis: Are We Asking It to Be What It Is Not?
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Bioethics’ Identity Crisis: Are We Asking It to Be What It Is Not?
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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)
www.tandfonline.com
May 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
My new editorial at AJOB:
Bioethics’ Identity Crisis: Are We Asking It to Be What It Is Not?
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Bioethics’ Identity Crisis: Are We Asking It to Be What It Is Not?
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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.
May 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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.
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
“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
May 8, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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
“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
Oh just talking about neuroethics in Munich.
May 1, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Oh just talking about neuroethics in Munich.
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.
May 1, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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.
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-...
My new essay at Bioethics Today:
How do we Mentor in This Moment?
bioethicstoday.org/blog/how-do-...
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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April 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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-...
My new essay at Bioethics Today:
How do we Mentor in This Moment?
bioethicstoday.org/blog/how-do-...
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”
“The social and ethical dimensions of Black health and chronic diseases”
“Believing our stories: Narrating Black health and health equity”
March 4, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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”
“The social and ethical dimensions of Black health and chronic diseases”
“Believing our stories: Narrating Black health and health equity”
I got 3 dozen eggs I’m never gonna eat. Let’s start the bidding. Mama needs some new clothes.
February 3, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I got 3 dozen eggs I’m never gonna eat. Let’s start the bidding. Mama needs some new clothes.
Friday.
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...
🗓️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...
February 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Friday.
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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...
🗓️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...
January 24, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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...
🗓️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...
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...
Please register here: uthealth.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
January 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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...
Please register here: uthealth.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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.
January 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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.
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...
www.tandfonline.com/toc/uajb20/2...
January 15, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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...
www.tandfonline.com/toc/uajb20/2...
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....
“Managing the Hope and Hype of Psychedelics”
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Managing the Hope and Hype of Psychedelics
Published in The American Journal of Bioethics (Vol. 25, No. 1, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
January 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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....
“Managing the Hope and Hype of Psychedelics”
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Keisha Ray
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...
🗓️Friday, 2/7
🕛12-1 CST
Register for free: z.umn.edu/a162
Learn more: bioethics.umn.edu/events/envir...
December 18, 2024 at 10:08 PM
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...
🗓️Friday, 2/7
🕛12-1 CST
Register for free: z.umn.edu/a162
Learn more: bioethics.umn.edu/events/envir...
Reposted by Keisha Ray
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.
The theme is Public Philosophy and Social Change: Legacies, Grassroots, and New Directions.
December 16, 2024 at 7:54 PM
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.
The theme is Public Philosophy and Social Change: Legacies, Grassroots, and New Directions.
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?
December 17, 2024 at 4:46 PM
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?
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:
December 11, 2024 at 2:47 AM
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: