About Charlene Galarneau

Charlene Galarneau is Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Wellesley College where she teaches and does research on the ethics of US health care, health policy, and public health with emphases on gender, race, and class. She is also teaching faculty at Harvard Medical School's Center for Bioethics and author of Communities of Health Care Justice. Charlene’s academic interests are motivated in part by her early public health/health care work with rural community/migrant health centers and the communities they serve, with the Colorado Community Health Network (a state-wide primary health care association), and by her tenure on the National Migrant Health Advisory Committee (Secretary HHS appointment).