Trust & Well-being with Dr. Lauren Taylor
On Wednesday, October 14th from 1-1:50 PM in FXB G12 and online, please join us for the second installment in our Trust and Well-being Seminar Series, featuring Dr. Lauren Taylor.
All are welcome. Lunch provided.
Series Theme
This seminar series will explore the role of trust in promoting psychological, physical, and social well-being. At a time of declining trust in institutions, political polarization, fear-based public discourse, and rapidly changing technologies that shape how people encounter information and one another, the series will consider trust not only as an individual experience but also as a central feature of collective well-being. Through conversations with leading scholars and practitioners, we will examine how trust is defined and measured across diverse social and cultural contexts; how it functions across relationships, communities, institutions, and generations; and how it is built, maintained, broken, and repaired.
The series will also explore how social, political, commercial, and cultural factors shape trust, with particular attention to health equity and the histories of exclusion, discrimination, disinvestment, and institutional harm that influence whether communities feel able to trust systems. Together, we will consider how trust and trustworthiness can promote safety, belonging, resilience, civic participation, health-promoting behaviors, and flourishing while helping to build more connected, equitable, and resilient communities and systems.
Speaker Biography
Dr. Lauren Taylor is Assistant Professor in the Department of Population Health at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, where she is jointly appointed in the Division of Healthcare Delivery Sciences and the Division of Medical Ethics. This joint appointment reflects her interest both in empirical work describing the world as it is and normative scholarship about how the world ought to be. She primarily studies US health care through an organizational lens, applying theoretical frameworks from business ethics and political philosophy to managerial and policy dilemmas. Some of Dr. Taylor’s recent publications have explored hospitals’ scope of legitimate responsibilities, the role of trust in health care delivery, and the community-based organizations’ responses to Medicaid’s emphasis on social determinants.
Speaker Information
Organizers
ⓘ Harvard Chan School hosts a diverse array of speakers, invited to share both scholarly research and personal perspectives. They do not speak for the School, and hosting them does not imply endorsement of their views, organizations, or employers.