Assistant Professor
Cincinnati Children's Hospital and Medical Center/ University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Takunda Matose is a researcher and bioethicist focused on healthcare justice, health inequalities and research ethics. Dr. Matose earned his PhD in philosophy from Vanderbilt University and his Master's degree in bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania. He has been a researcher for over 16 years and began working at Cincinnati Children's Hospital and Medical Center in 2024. Prior to joining Cincinnati Children's, Dr. Matose was an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago, where he was also affiliated with both the Institute for Racial Justice and the Rule of Law Institute. He was also the Edmond J. Safra Joint Fellow-in-Residence at Harvard University and Harvard Medical School in 2022.
Dr. Matose's research explores how the complex conceptual and physiological dimensions of social categories like race, gender, and disability influence people's motivations for seeking healthcare and impact health outcomes while also determining what we owe them as a matter of healthcare justice. His recent and forthcoming publications include works on vaccine hesitancy, AI as social justice in healthcare, distributive justice, and health disparities.
Dr. Matose is the recipient of the Donchin and Holmes Emerging Scholar Prize from the International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (2022), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director's Award (2016).
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