Bioethics in the Margins23 Sep 2025

What bioethicists should know about FEMA with Julia O'Brien

We welcome everyone back from a beautiful summer to kick off Season 8 with Julia O'Brien, the "grandmother" of geographic information systems (GIS). O'Brien was the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Region II Special Geospacial Coordinator before her retirement in 2023. She worked in remote sensing and GIS for over 30 years. Before that she was the Senior Project Manager for a New York City project to complete an accurate GIS dataset for NYC, culminating in the Citywide Street Centerlines (CSCL) database.

O'Brien walks us through the importance of GIS in disaster management and how it allows leaders to understand what infrastructure may be in the path of storms or flooding in order to prepare adequately for natural disasters. She discusses the role that FEMA plays to support states and localities during manmade and natural disasters. We delve into how proposed cuts to federal funding will affect institutional knowledge that is critical for disaster relief during this time of increased frequency and severity of disasters due to climate change. O'Brien highlights the importance of diversity in planning for disaster response needs. Finally, she discusses the importance of aid services provided by agencies like FEMA and USAID, noting that when a government does not meet the needs of the people, it will not be supported.

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Ethics of Artificial Intelligence through a Cultural Anthropology Lens

For this episode, we are joined by Kadija Ferryman, an anthropologist who studies equity and policy in health risk prediction technologies. Dr. Ferryman is Faculty at the Berman Institute of Bioethic...

25 Maj 1h 2min

Human Rights Violations in US Immigration Detention

In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Katherine Peeler, founding director of the Peeler Immigration Lab, to discuss her longstanding empirical work on human rights and US immigration systems. Dr. Peel...

21 Apr 53min

Social, Ethical and Policy Implications of Genomic Tools

In this episode, our previous guest Dr. Daphne Martschenko returns with her co-author Dr. Sam Trejo to discuss their new book What We Inherit: How New Technologies and Old Myths Are Shaping Our Genomi...

23 Mars 1h 2min

Commercial Determinants of Health

Season 9 is off to an exceptionally strong start with our recent discussion with Dr. Nicholas Freudenberg, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Public Health at the City University of New York (CUNY) S...

23 Feb 55min

Sanctuary Churches: A Moral Imperative

We close out Season 8 with a very special episode that is particularly poignant in this holiday season when people of many faiths are called to reflect on our core values. We are joined by Reverend Ja...

23 Dec 202555min

One Health Policy with Dr. Karen Meagher

This month we are joined by Dr. Karen Meagher, Assistant Professor of Health Justice and Bioethics at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University. Recently, Dr. Meagher was the Associate Di...

24 Nov 202555min

Remaking Bioethics Together

We are thrilled that this podcast is airing right after the 2025 American Society for Bioethics and Humanities meeting. It is based on a 2024 ASBH workshop “Remaking Bioethics Together.” Our guests a...

27 Okt 20251h 1min