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I am currently a Hecht-Levi Fellow at Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. During this fellowship, I have been working on the ethics and regulatory aspects of pragmatic clinical trials, in affiliation with the Regulatory & Ethics Core of the NIH Collaboratory. My areas of specialization are Bioethics (esp. Health Justice, Philosophy of Disability, Research Ethics) and Feminist Philosophy, and my areas of competence are Philosophy of Science (esp. Values in Science, Philosophy of Medicine), Political Philosophy, and Environmental Ethics. In August 2023, I defended my dissertation titled "Fat -- Therefore, Unhealthy? Oppressing Fat People in the Name of Health," and it was supervised by: Sara Goering (chair), Carina Fourie, Paul Franco, and Amelia Wirts. This dissertation offers a critical understanding of "health" in relation to so-called "obesity" and argues that the dominant understanding of the relationship between health and "obesity" has perpetuated the oppression of people in larger bodies. Fat oppression has taken different forms over time and is currently disguised as a legitimate concern for health and well-being. Material from my dissertation has been published in Synthese and Bioethics Today. |