Jennifer McCurdy

• Webinar: How Brain Death Declarations Can Harm, and Why Legal Exemptions Should Be the Rule
• Guest appearance: Marc Siegel, host. Doctor Radio Reports, Doctor Radio Powered by NYU Langone Health, SiriusXM. February 28, 2023.
• Bioethics Faculty Address Structural Racism in Health Care Settings
• Podcast: Bioethics in the Margins S02 E05 - Colonial Geographies with Jennifer McCurdy
• Podcast: Pondering Hermit: The Eurochristian Worldview
• Pandemics are Not New: What Can Indigenous Worldviews Teach Us? (bioethics.net)

Research

Dr. McCurdy’s current research focuses on structural and epistemological factors impacting the health and well-being of intersectionally marginalized people and communities. Current projects include a scoping review of Indigenous and eurochristian worldviews in the bioethics literature; medical curricula implementation on structural competency; a manuscript on epistemological harms of brain death, and a book project featuring an anti-colonial analysis of bioethics.

Selected Publications

Blalock, A. E., McCurdy, J., Henry, K., & Wentworth, C. (2024). “I have established this support network”: How Chosen Kin Support Women Medical Students During their First Two Years in Medical School. Teaching and Learning in Medicine, 1–11. DOI: 10.1080/10401334.2024.2416690

Pham MT, McCurdy J. Who's Experience, Which Liability? Am J Bioeth. 2023 Jan;23(1):41-43.

McCurdy J. “Colonial Geographies, Black Geographies, and Bioethics,” in A Critical Moment in Bioethics: Reckoning with Anti‐Black Racism through Intergenerational Dialogue, ed. Fletcher FE, Ray KS, Brown VA, Smith PT, special report, Hastings Center Report. March-April 2022;52(S1):S66-S68. DOI: 10.1002/hast.1375.

McCurdy JL, Dupree CY. Understanding and Addressing Health Disparities through a Racial Paradigm. In: Hester DM, Schonfeld TL, eds. Guidance for Healthcare Ethics Committees. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2022:30-38. DOI: 10.1017/9781108788250.005.

Jotterand F, McCurdy J, Elger B. Cognitive enhancers, intellectual disability, and personal identity: emerging ethical issues. In: Rosenberg RN, Pascual JM, eds. Rosenberg's Molecular and Genetic Basis of Neurological and Psychiatric Disease. Vol 1. Sixth ed. Cambridge, MA: Academic Press; 2020:199-207.

Jotterand, F. and McCurdy, J. Ethics of Transhumanism: In Global Context in The Encyclopedia of Bioethics, Springer Publishers.

Selected Achievements and Awards

• Co-Chair and Ethics Consultant for the McLaren Greater Lansing Ethics Committee
• 2021 Task Force Member, Hastings Center Special Report: “A Critical Moment in Bioethics: Reckoning with Anti-Blackness through Intergenerational Dialogue”
• 2019-2022 Co-chair, Race, Culture, and Ethnicity Affinity Group of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
• Member, American Society for Bioethics and Humanities