Seminar Video
Presenter
Yukiko Asada, Ph.D.
Department of Bioethics
National Institutes of Health
Dr. Yukiko Asada joined the Department of Bioethics in the fall of 2022 as a faculty member and a tenure-track investigator in the NIH intramural research program with a focus on health disparities/inequalities and ethics. She is a 2023 NIH Distinguished Scholar. Dr. Asada’s research contributes to establishing sound foundations of fairness in health systems and the health of populations locally, nationally, and globally.
Dr. Asada is a quantitatively trained population health researcher focusing on ethical issues in population health. Her research seeks to make explicit the implicit assumptions underlying quantitative methods used in population health research. Her work is broadly situated within the emerging field of population-level bioethics. Her program of research articulates the concept of health inequity, advances the measurement of health inequity, and promotes public dialogues on health inequity.
National Institutes of Health
Dr. Yukiko Asada joined the Department of Bioethics in the fall of 2022 as a faculty member and a tenure-track investigator in the NIH intramural research program with a focus on health disparities/inequalities and ethics. She is a 2023 NIH Distinguished Scholar. Dr. Asada’s research contributes to establishing sound foundations of fairness in health systems and the health of populations locally, nationally, and globally.
Dr. Asada is a quantitatively trained population health researcher focusing on ethical issues in population health. Her research seeks to make explicit the implicit assumptions underlying quantitative methods used in population health research. Her work is broadly situated within the emerging field of population-level bioethics. Her program of research articulates the concept of health inequity, advances the measurement of health inequity, and promotes public dialogues on health inequity.