| By Glenn Ellis A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats, an anthology of health columns syndicated in the Black Press during the COVID-19 pandemic focusing on public health communication gaps and the ethical issues that were illuminated PHILADELPHIA—Dec. 3, 2024—Medical ethics expert and syndicated columnist Glenn Ellis announced the upcoming release of his new book, A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats, a compilation of columns written by Ellis that offer perspectives on the disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Black America. Ellis is a noted Medical Ethics expert on social determinants of health, particularly in communities that have struggled with access and equitable care. Pre-orders begin on December 6, 2024, with the book’s official release set for January 27, 2025. The purpose of Ellis’ book is to document important inequities in health policy, public health, and medical education with valuable data and perspectives that will undoubtedly benefit the world and future generations. The impact of how the pandemic played out in Black America raises some serious issues related to healthcare equity and ethics, with the intent of informing future research, healthcare, and protection for the general population during a global pandemic. Ellis is an authority on the pandemic and the depth of experiences the crisis brought to underserved communities. After writing weekly columns for over 20 years, he assembled his COVID-19 weekly columns into an anthology to create this book, documenting one year of insightful public health reporting in weekly columns focused on health equity and ethics during one of the deadliest periods of the pandemic. Ellis’ perspective reflects messaging especially targeted to the Black American community during the COVID-19 pandemic from March 2020 to April 2021. The deadly global pandemic cut short the lives of approximately 7,0756,468 lives worldwide. Black people are about twice as likely to die from COVID-19 as their White counterparts. Ellis is also a prominent voice in health media. He is a sought-after expert on cultural and ethical considerations in end-of-life care, the retention and recruitment of underserved populations in clinical research, and the ethical implications of race and ethnicity in clinical settings. He has authored numerous papers in the American Journal of Public Health, the American Journal of Academic Medicine, the Journal of Philosophy and Ethics, and the Journal of Healthcare, Science, and the Humanities. Ellis is a Certified Health Care Ethicist (CHCE) and received his master’s degree in public health (MPH) at the University of Liverpool. He is a Global Bioethics (DBIO) doctoral candidate at Euclid University and a Fellow at the College of Physicians – Philadelphia. A Birmingham, Alabama native, Glenn Ellis is President of Strategies for Well-Being based in Philadelphia. |