From her research on everything from ending the Black maternal mortality crisis to including people from marginalized populations in studies on psychedelic treatments, Melissa A. Simon is at the forefront of efforts to stop health disparities in the U.S. In 2023, she also joined the JAMA editorial team as associate editor — a particularly noteworthy appointment in the context of her outspoken criticism of medical journals’ tendency to publish overwhelmingly white and male authors. She’s also frequently been in the news offering a health equity perspective on the ongoing fallout from the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and the role that distrust in science and medicine has played in public perceptions of abortion. “The onus is on us as healthcare professionals and scientists to work hard to garner that trust again, and also to manage the rampant disinformation that is really being promulgated across the internet especially,” she said in an interview last year.
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