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Jon Shaffer
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Freelance
Baltimore, Burlington
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Biography
I study global health organizations, social movements, and their struggles over scientific knowledge. I write about health injustice and fights for health equity. I received my Ph.D. in Sociology from Boston University in August of 2022 and am currently a Hecht-Levi Postdoctoral Fellow in Global Infectious Disease Ethics at the Johns Hopkins University Berman Institute & the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities at the University of Oxford.
Sociology , Labor Unions, Health Equity, Global Health, Politics , Labor Politics, Infectious Diseases , Social Movements
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Content
By Jon Shaffer|Peste MagazineVerifiedProtest—for AyaEach night is a nightof slaughter; in the shadowschildren dress in tatters,parched, glass-eyed. Childrenwhose homes are ash, children plasteredin cement and blood. The world doesn’t care about us,you say. You’ve gonefrom displacement to displacementsearching for life,for rest, yet every evening,the bombing starts again. And I want to say, look!our streets are alive: banners flare & drumsbeat and quicken like hearts.
The AI Death Spiral: Dispatches from the artificial intelligence hype machine whirlpool — PESTE MAGAZINE
By Jon Shaffer, Alicia Puglionesi|Peste MagazineVerifiedDispatches from the artificial intelligence hype machine whirlpoolBy Alicia Puglionesi Stories meant to showcase the inspiring potential of AI in healthcare can leave the reader in a strange, dark place. In 2022 the New York Times covered a suicide prevention app developed by Harvard psychologists to monitor high risk patients after discharge from the hospital. We follow a woman who enrolls in the study and is saved from a suicide attempt when the app cues the researchers to intervene.
By Jon Shaffer|Peste MagazineVerifiedArsenii Alenichev, lead author of “Assembling a global health image: Ethical and pragmatic tensions through the lenses of photographers”, spoke with Jon Shaffer about how photographers face pressures to stage, shape, and alter ‘global health’ images. JS: Why interview photographers? Global health photographers specifically?
Company Info
Freelance
Freelancer.com is the largest freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace in the world, connecting over 81 million employers and freelancers across more than 247 countries. Founded in 2009 and based in Sydney, Australia, the platform allows employers to post jobs while freelancers can bid on these projects. It is publicly traded on the Australian Securities Exchange under the ticker ASX:FLN. The platform supports a variety of work categories, including software development, writing, design, and marketing. Freelancer.com also offers contests for creative work, where employers can award prize money to winning entries. Users can choose from different membership plans, including free and paid subscriptions, which provide various benefits. The mobile app enhances project management and communication for users on the go. With a diverse customer base that includes individuals, small businesses, and large enterprises, Freelancer.com plays a significant role in the global online economy.
De Pere, Wisconsin, United States