Dr. Jim Thomas has worked as an epidemiologist and ethicist in more than 40 countries. As a social epidemiologist, he studied how social forces, such as mass incarceration, shape the distribution of health outcomes in a community. As an ethicist, he was the principal author of the first American public health code of ethics and now advises other countries as they write their codes. While in Ghana to coordinate with the World Health Organization on data collection following an Ebola epidemic, he visited Elmina Fort. Elmina is where Africans were enslaved and held to be put on ships to the Americas. Seeing a church in Elmina was a shock to Jim's Christian faith. On Wednesday, April 23rd at 7 PM in Ewell Hall Room 107, he will talk about how he processed that shock over the following years and how it affects his international work now.

Jim is an Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology in the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Additionally, he serves as an Adjunct Professor at the French École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique.

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