Jonathan Shaffer
Biographic Data
| ID | 342257 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Shaffer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Shaffer |
| SIGNATURE | SHAFFER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vermont |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8933-6915 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
‘We can see a savage’: A case study of the colonial gaze in generative AI algorithms
Theorizing the failures of computer vision algorithms requires shifting from detecting and fixing biases towards understanding how algorithms are shaped by social, historical, and political real-world precursors. To better understand the socially embedded and historically rooted representational harms of these algorithms, we analyze how AI image captioning depicts archival images of living ethnological exibitions (so-called 'human zoos'), mass st…
Obstetric-Related Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act Violations and No Health Exception Bans
The results of this difference-in-differences analysis suggest that strict abortion bans, particularly Senate bill 8 in Texas, were followed by a measurable escalation in EMTALA violations involving obstetric emergencies. Uncertainty regarding state policies and deferral to state law may reshape frontline emergency care and compromise federally protected access in obstetric emergencies
Reimagine Aid, Don’t Destroy It
Training clinicians to be organizers: Expanding professional identities through a year-long Climate Health Organizing Fellowship
The climate crisis and its harmful effects on human health are staggering. It is motivating clinicians to transform their scope of practice. Physicians and other clinicians are on the front lines of managing a growing surge of illness and injury directly caused by increasingly extreme temperatures, weather, and ecological transformation. But the joint institutional constraints of clinician socialization through training and the labor conditions o…
The elephant in the room: Reflecting on text-to-image generative AI and global health images
Health Professionals Organizing for Climate Action: A Novel Community Organizing Fellowship
Global health photography behind the façade of empowerment and decolonisation
Global health photography has historically been commissioned and, therefore, dominated by the gaze of Western photographers on assignments in the Global South. This is changing as part of international calls to decolonise global health and stimulate 'empowerment', spawning a growing initiative to hire local photographers. This article, based on interviews with global health photographers, reflects on this paradigm shift. It highlights how behind …
The Gates Foundation’s new AI initiative: Attempting to leapfrog global health inequalities
Embodied contradictions, structural power: Patient organizers in the movement for global health justice
Human capital, risk and the World Bank’s reintermediation in global development
This article examines an attempt to reconstitute global development governance in a context of growing influence for private finance. We focus on the World Bank’s Human Capital Project (HCP) and Human Capital Index (HCI), which have stated aims of promoting economic growth and accelerating progress towards achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. Informed by a review of publicly available World Bank materials, we argue that, through its …
Comparing disciplinary engagement in global health research across the social sciences
Objectives What did social science disciplines contribute to the study of global health before the coronavirus pandemic? This article compares the contributions of four major social science disciplines—anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology—to the study of global health. Methods We assessed disciplinary contributions through analysis of Web of Science; disciplinary annual reviews; and each discipline's top two general focus jou…
The origins of the 4 × 4 framework for noncommunicable disease at the World Health Organization
This paper traces the history of noncommunicable disease public health research and programming at the World Health Organization. Specifically, it investigates the origins of the now pervasive 4 × 4 framework focusing on four sets of diseases (cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, chronic respiratory diseases, and cancers) caused by four behavioral risk factors (tobacco use, harmful use of alcohol, unhealthy diets, and physical inactivity). We have …
Knowledge, boundaries, and bodies: Social construction between medical sociology and science and technology studies
Medical sociology and science and technology studies (STS) emerged from different positions, but often closely related concerns, within the broad discipline of sociology. Their interface and areas of overlap have mostly been shaped by theoretical positions broadly considered “social constructionist.” Taken together, these perspectives provide empirical and theoretical tools to analyze important questions about how social inequalities, forms of sc…
The Lancet NCDI Poverty Commission: Bridging a gap in universal health coverage for the poorest billion
Comparing disciplinary engagement in global health research across the social sciences
Objectives What did social science disciplines contribute to the study of global health before the coronavirus pandemic? This article compares the contributions of four major social science disciplines—anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology—to the study of global health. Methods We assessed disciplinary contributions through analysis of Web of Science; disciplinary annual reviews; and each discipline's top two general focus jou…
Knowledge, boundaries, and bodies: Social construction between medical sociology and science and technology studies
Medical sociology and science and technology studies (STS) emerged from different positions, but often closely related concerns, within the broad discipline of sociology. Their interface and areas of overlap have mostly been shaped by theoretical positions broadly considered “social constructionist.” Taken together, these perspectives provide empirical and theoretical tools to analyze important questions about how social inequalities, forms of sc…
The Lancet NCDI Poverty Commission: Bridging a gap in universal health coverage for the poorest billion
The origins of the 4 × 4 framework for noncommunicable disease at the World Health Organization
This paper traces the history of noncommunicable disease public health research and programming at the World Health Organization. Specifically, it investigates the origins of the now pervasive 4 × 4 framework focusing on four sets of diseases (cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, chronic respiratory diseases, and cancers) caused by four behavioral risk factors (tobacco use, harmful use of alcohol, unhealthy diets, and physical inactivity). We have …
Knowledge, boundaries, and bodies: Social construction between medical sociology and science and technology studies
Medical sociology and science and technology studies (STS) emerged from different positions, but often closely related concerns, within the broad discipline of sociology. Their interface and areas of overlap have mostly been shaped by theoretical positions broadly considered “social constructionist.” Taken together, these perspectives provide empirical and theoretical tools to analyze important questions about how social inequalities, forms of sc…
Human capital, risk and the World Bank’s reintermediation in global development
This article examines an attempt to reconstitute global development governance in a context of growing influence for private finance. We focus on the World Bank’s Human Capital Project (HCP) and Human Capital Index (HCI), which have stated aims of promoting economic growth and accelerating progress towards achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. Informed by a review of publicly available World Bank materials, we argue that, through its …
Comparing disciplinary engagement in global health research across the social sciences
Objectives What did social science disciplines contribute to the study of global health before the coronavirus pandemic? This article compares the contributions of four major social science disciplines—anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology—to the study of global health. Methods We assessed disciplinary contributions through analysis of Web of Science; disciplinary annual reviews; and each discipline's top two general focus jou…
The Gates Foundation’s new AI initiative: Attempting to leapfrog global health inequalities
Embodied contradictions, structural power: Patient organizers in the movement for global health justice
The elephant in the room: Reflecting on text-to-image generative AI and global health images
Health Professionals Organizing for Climate Action: A Novel Community Organizing Fellowship
Global health photography behind the façade of empowerment and decolonisation
Global health photography has historically been commissioned and, therefore, dominated by the gaze of Western photographers on assignments in the Global South. This is changing as part of international calls to decolonise global health and stimulate 'empowerment', spawning a growing initiative to hire local photographers. This article, based on interviews with global health photographers, reflects on this paradigm shift. It highlights how behind …
Obstetric-Related Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act Violations and No Health Exception Bans
The results of this difference-in-differences analysis suggest that strict abortion bans, particularly Senate bill 8 in Texas, were followed by a measurable escalation in EMTALA violations involving obstetric emergencies. Uncertainty regarding state policies and deferral to state law may reshape frontline emergency care and compromise federally protected access in obstetric emergencies
Reimagine Aid, Don’t Destroy It
Training clinicians to be organizers: Expanding professional identities through a year-long Climate Health Organizing Fellowship
The climate crisis and its harmful effects on human health are staggering. It is motivating clinicians to transform their scope of practice. Physicians and other clinicians are on the front lines of managing a growing surge of illness and injury directly caused by increasingly extreme temperatures, weather, and ecological transformation. But the joint institutional constraints of clinician socialization through training and the labor conditions o…
‘We can see a savage’: A case study of the colonial gaze in generative AI algorithms
Theorizing the failures of computer vision algorithms requires shifting from detecting and fixing biases towards understanding how algorithms are shaped by social, historical, and political real-world precursors. To better understand the socially embedded and historically rooted representational harms of these algorithms, we analyze how AI image captioning depicts archival images of living ethnological exibitions (so-called 'human zoos'), mass st…
Political science (9 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Global Health and Surgery (5 works) · Public health (5 works) · Health care (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Nursing (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Business (3 works)