Vanessa Ferguson

Vanessa’s research interests include bioethics, artificial intelligence (AI) ethics, Black studies, health studies and the intersections between them. Vanessa completed her MA at Queens University in the Department of Philosophy. Vanessa’s Master’s thesis explores how ideas of race, race science and racism are embedded in medicine, and how they inform health care, treatment, and health outcomes in sickle cell disease, specifically for Black populations in Canada and beyond. Vanessa’s primary motivations are to catalogue the Black patient experience in Canada, and globally in the context of anti-Black racism.