Is it ethical to use global health as an instrument for national security strategy objectives?
Andrew Markus Scholar Lecture 2022
Thursday 1 December 2022 18:00 to 19:00Speakers: |
Commander Loretta Stein, US Navy |
Location: |
EP Abraham Lecture Theatre, Green Templeton College |
Green Templeton Alumna Commander Loretta Stein will explore the history and evolution of the United States’ military involvement in global health from force health protection, biological threat surveillance, and humanitarian response efforts to what is now known as health security cooperation and, more broadly, global health engagement. She will discuss ethical considerations of military personnel involved in global health and the development of an ethical framework for engagement.
About the speaker
Loretta L. Stein, MD, MSC is Commander, Medical Corps, US Navy. She earned a Master’s of Science in Global Health from the University of Oxford (MSc, 2007). She was commissioned as an Ensign in the Navy in 2007 upon matriculating to Tufts University School of Medicine (MD, 2011) on a Health Professions Scholarship. CDR Stein completed a Transitional Year Internship in 2012, followed by Ophthalmology Residency Training in 2015 at Naval Medical Center San Diego. After residency training, CDR Stein served her first utilization tour overseas at US Naval Hospital Yokosuka, Japan as the sole ophthalmologist, Department Head, and Chair of the Healthcare Ethics Committee on the Executive Committee of the Medical Staff.
From 2017 to 2021, CDR Stein served in a number of leadership roles at Fort Belvoir Community Hospital and throughout the National Capital Region including Chair of Process Improvement Committee on the Executive Committee of the Medical Staff, Deputy Service Chief and Service Chief of Ophthalmology, and as a member of the DOD Council for Female Physician Recruitment and Retention and Female Physician Leadership Course Planning Committee.
CDR Stein is Board Certified in Ophthalmology and currently serves as the Director of Surgical Services at NMRTC/USNH Naples, Italy. She holds academic appointments as a Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and Adjunct Professor at the Defense Medical Readiness Training Institute.
About the Andrew Markus Scholarship
The position of Andrew Markus Scholar is awarded to a practising medical doctor with an interest in medical ethics. It provides an opportunity for a clinician to take part in the academic life of the college and wider university, based at the Ethox Centre and Green Templeton College, University of Oxford.
