Galen Joseph
Biographic Data
| ID | 111752 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Galen Joseph |
| GIVEN NAMES | Galen |
| FAMILY NAME | Joseph |
| SIGNATURE | JOSEPH G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, San Francisco |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9179-7075 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
“I can't help them like I used to”: Evolving prenatal genetic counseling practices in a post-Roe U.S
Effects of Implicit Racial Bias and Standardized Patient Race on Genetic Counseling Students’ Patient-Centered Communication
Clinician racial bias has been associated with less patient-centered communication, but little is known about how it affects trainees’ communication. We investigated genetic counseling students’ communication during sessions with Black or White standardized patients (SPs) and the extent to which communication was associated with SP race or student scores on the Race Implicit Association Test (IAT). Sixty students conducted a baseline SP session a…
The Health Equity Action Network Research Coordinating Center Facilitates Meaningful Community Engagement to Promote Health Equity
“Mammograms are kind of my pacifier”: The cultural context of women's preference for annual mammograms in a risk-based screening cohort
Population genetic testing and risk-based screening have the potential to shift how we determine risk and screen for breast cancer. While much attention has been paid to the experiences of individuals who may be at elevated risk for breast cancer, less is known about how those at average risk make decisions about their health. Through qualitative interviews with 30 participants, we explore how those enrolled in a risk-based screening trial who ar…
Moving toward Equity through Embedded Elsi Ethnography
This paper describes the unique values of, challenges within, and opportunities presented by embedded ELSI ethnography. Drawing from our six‐year embedded ELSI study of the WISDOM (Women Informed to Screen Depending on Measures of Risk) trial, we present three examples of the variable ways we engaged with the WISDOM trial's scientific team. WISDOM is a preference‐sensitive, pragmatic, randomized controlled trial of risk‐based breast cancer screen…
It’s personalized, but it’s still bucket based”: The promise of personalized medicine vs. the reality of genomic risk stratification in a breast cancer screening trial
Adaptive pragmatic clinical trials offer an innovative approach that integrates clinical care and research. Yet, blurring the boundaries between research and clinical care raises questions about how clinicians and investigators balance their caregiving and research roles and what types of knowledge and risk assessment are most valued. This paper presents findings from an ethnographic ELSI (Ethical, Legal, Social Implications) study of an innovati…
Cancer genetic counseling communication with low-income Chinese immigrants
Effective Referral of Low-Income Women at Risk for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer to Genetic Counseling: A Randomized Delayed Intervention Control Trial
Objectives. To determine the effectiveness of a statewide telephone service in identifying low-income women at risk for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer and referring them to free genetic counseling. Methods. From June 2010 through August 2011, eligible callers to California’s toll-free breast and cervical cancer telephone service were screened for their family histories of breast and ovarian cancer. High-risk women were identified and called…
To worry or not to worry: Breast cancer genetic counseling communication with low-income Latina immigrants
Cancer: The Paradox of Endless Data and Little Knowledge
Additional informationNotes on contributorsGalen JosephGalen Joseph is associate professor in the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where she is also a member of the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. Her research, at the intersection of medical anthropology and public health, investigates the sociocultural and institutional dimensions of inequities in cancer care…
Recruitment Practices and the Politics of Inclusion in Cancer Clinical Trials
Since the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Revitalization Act of 1993, researchers with federal funding have been required to include "minorities and women" in their clinical trials, and inclusion in research has come to be seen as an important strategy for reducing health disparities. On the basis of ethnographic research in oncology clinics in an academic medical center and a public hospital over a period of two years, this article exam…
Case studies in the co-production of populations and genetics: The making of ‘at risk populations’ in BRCA genetics
Special section: Perspectives on globalising genomics: The case of ‘BRCA’ breast cancer research and medical practice
Recruiting Low-Income Healthy Women to Research: An Exploratory Study
The challenges women face when talking with men about their health affect their ability to effectively speak to men about research participation. However, EWC and similar telephone health services may be an effective means for recruiting low-income women to chemoprevention and other studies requiring healthy participants
Taking race seriously: Whiteness in Argentina's national and transnational imaginary
Middle class porteños (the inhabitants of Buenos Aires) display their ambivalence about the whiteness of Argentina and their own belonging to the nation through their use of the intermittently racializing discourse of “seriousness.” The discourse of “seriousness” is used to talk about the status of Argentina's political, economic, and cultural “development” and Argentina's place in the global hierarchy of nations. Based on ethnographic fieldwork …
Taking race seriously: Whiteness in Argentina's national and transnational imaginary
Middle class porteños (the inhabitants of Buenos Aires) display their ambivalence about the whiteness of Argentina and their own belonging to the nation through their use of the intermittently racializing discourse of “seriousness.” The discourse of “seriousness” is used to talk about the status of Argentina's political, economic, and cultural “development” and Argentina's place in the global hierarchy of nations. Based on ethnographic fieldwork …
Recruitment Practices and the Politics of Inclusion in Cancer Clinical Trials
Since the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Revitalization Act of 1993, researchers with federal funding have been required to include "minorities and women" in their clinical trials, and inclusion in research has come to be seen as an important strategy for reducing health disparities. On the basis of ethnographic research in oncology clinics in an academic medical center and a public hospital over a period of two years, this article exam…
Recruiting Low-Income Healthy Women to Research: An Exploratory Study
The challenges women face when talking with men about their health affect their ability to effectively speak to men about research participation. However, EWC and similar telephone health services may be an effective means for recruiting low-income women to chemoprevention and other studies requiring healthy participants
Effective Referral of Low-Income Women at Risk for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer to Genetic Counseling: A Randomized Delayed Intervention Control Trial
Objectives. To determine the effectiveness of a statewide telephone service in identifying low-income women at risk for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer and referring them to free genetic counseling. Methods. From June 2010 through August 2011, eligible callers to California’s toll-free breast and cervical cancer telephone service were screened for their family histories of breast and ovarian cancer. High-risk women were identified and called…
Taking race seriously: Whiteness in Argentina's national and transnational imaginary
Middle class porteños (the inhabitants of Buenos Aires) display their ambivalence about the whiteness of Argentina and their own belonging to the nation through their use of the intermittently racializing discourse of “seriousness.” The discourse of “seriousness” is used to talk about the status of Argentina's political, economic, and cultural “development” and Argentina's place in the global hierarchy of nations. Based on ethnographic fieldwork …
Recruiting Low-Income Healthy Women to Research: An Exploratory Study
The challenges women face when talking with men about their health affect their ability to effectively speak to men about research participation. However, EWC and similar telephone health services may be an effective means for recruiting low-income women to chemoprevention and other studies requiring healthy participants
Case studies in the co-production of populations and genetics: The making of ‘at risk populations’ in BRCA genetics
Special section: Perspectives on globalising genomics: The case of ‘BRCA’ breast cancer research and medical practice
Recruitment Practices and the Politics of Inclusion in Cancer Clinical Trials
Since the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Revitalization Act of 1993, researchers with federal funding have been required to include "minorities and women" in their clinical trials, and inclusion in research has come to be seen as an important strategy for reducing health disparities. On the basis of ethnographic research in oncology clinics in an academic medical center and a public hospital over a period of two years, this article exam…
To worry or not to worry: Breast cancer genetic counseling communication with low-income Latina immigrants
Cancer: The Paradox of Endless Data and Little Knowledge
Additional informationNotes on contributorsGalen JosephGalen Joseph is associate professor in the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where she is also a member of the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. Her research, at the intersection of medical anthropology and public health, investigates the sociocultural and institutional dimensions of inequities in cancer care…
Effective Referral of Low-Income Women at Risk for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer to Genetic Counseling: A Randomized Delayed Intervention Control Trial
Objectives. To determine the effectiveness of a statewide telephone service in identifying low-income women at risk for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer and referring them to free genetic counseling. Methods. From June 2010 through August 2011, eligible callers to California’s toll-free breast and cervical cancer telephone service were screened for their family histories of breast and ovarian cancer. High-risk women were identified and called…
Cancer genetic counseling communication with low-income Chinese immigrants
It’s personalized, but it’s still bucket based”: The promise of personalized medicine vs. the reality of genomic risk stratification in a breast cancer screening trial
Adaptive pragmatic clinical trials offer an innovative approach that integrates clinical care and research. Yet, blurring the boundaries between research and clinical care raises questions about how clinicians and investigators balance their caregiving and research roles and what types of knowledge and risk assessment are most valued. This paper presents findings from an ethnographic ELSI (Ethical, Legal, Social Implications) study of an innovati…
“Mammograms are kind of my pacifier”: The cultural context of women's preference for annual mammograms in a risk-based screening cohort
Population genetic testing and risk-based screening have the potential to shift how we determine risk and screen for breast cancer. While much attention has been paid to the experiences of individuals who may be at elevated risk for breast cancer, less is known about how those at average risk make decisions about their health. Through qualitative interviews with 30 participants, we explore how those enrolled in a risk-based screening trial who ar…
Moving toward Equity through Embedded Elsi Ethnography
This paper describes the unique values of, challenges within, and opportunities presented by embedded ELSI ethnography. Drawing from our six‐year embedded ELSI study of the WISDOM (Women Informed to Screen Depending on Measures of Risk) trial, we present three examples of the variable ways we engaged with the WISDOM trial's scientific team. WISDOM is a preference‐sensitive, pragmatic, randomized controlled trial of risk‐based breast cancer screen…
Effects of Implicit Racial Bias and Standardized Patient Race on Genetic Counseling Students’ Patient-Centered Communication
Clinician racial bias has been associated with less patient-centered communication, but little is known about how it affects trainees’ communication. We investigated genetic counseling students’ communication during sessions with Black or White standardized patients (SPs) and the extent to which communication was associated with SP race or student scores on the Race Implicit Association Test (IAT). Sixty students conducted a baseline SP session a…
The Health Equity Action Network Research Coordinating Center Facilitates Meaningful Community Engagement to Promote Health Equity
“I can't help them like I used to”: Evolving prenatal genetic counseling practices in a post-Roe U.S
Medicine (13 works) · BRCA gene mutations in cancer (8 works) · Family medicine (6 works) · Internal Medicine (6 works) · Nursing (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Cancer (5 works) · Genetic counseling (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works)