Sean A. Valles, PhD
- Director, Center for Bioethics and Social Justice
- Center for Bioethics and Social Justice
- Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
Bio
Sean A. Valles, PhD, is the director and professor of the Center for Bioethics and Social Justice and director of learning environment at MSU College of Human Medicine.
Dr. Valles received his PhD in history and philosophy of science from Indiana University Bloomington.
Dr. Valles is a philosopher of health specializing in the ethical and evidentiary complexities of how social contexts—everything from one’s local food options to the presence or absence of exposure to violent policing practices—combine to create patterns of inequitable health disparities. His work includes studying the challenges of responsibly using race and ethnicity concepts in monitoring health disparities, scrutinizing the rhetoric of the COVID-19 pandemic as an ‘unprecedented’ problem that could not be prepared for, and examining how biomedicine meshes with public health and population health.
Dr. Valles is author of the 2018 book, Philosophy of Population Health: Philosophy for a New Public Health Era, and a co-editor (with Quill R. Kukla) of the Oxford University Press book series "Bioethics for Social Justice.” He was the program co-chair of the 2022 Meeting of the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science.
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