Charlene Galarneau

Harvard Medical School, Center for Bioethics

Professor Galarneau’s research explores the ethics of healthcare, public health, and health policy, in particular concepts and practices of justice that take seriously multiple and diverse communities and their intersecting social relations including gender, race, and geography. Research topics include racism in bioethics, USPHS STD experiments in Guatemala, ACA exclusions (undocumented immigrants) and exemptions (healthcare sharing ministries), and FDA blood donor deferral policies. Galarneau’s 2016 book, Communities of Health Care Justice, cultivates a concept of community justice that understands communities as critical participants in determining the nature of just healthcare. Her initial ethics interest was motivated by her work with rural community/migrant health centers and the communities they serve. Her articles appear in the American Journal of Bioethics, the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, Health and Human Rights, the Hastings Center Report, Public Health Ethics, and the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved.

Areas of Expertise

• Health and Medicine
• Policy, Race and Ethnicity
• Ethics (healthcare, health policy, & public health)
• Gender Studies

Methodology

• Archival Methods
• Focus Groups
• Interviews
• Secondary Data Analysis