Brian Tuohy, PhD

Research Interests

•  Immigrant health
• Qualitative methods
• Medical education
• Community engaged research
• Health equity
• Medical sociology
• Dental education
• Ethics

About Me

Please see my personal website for more information about me and my research.

Educational Background

• Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Wisconsin, School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI
• Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA
• PhD, Sociology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
• MSt, The Study of Religion, University of Oxford
• BA, Religion and Psychology, University of Rochester

Memberships

• American Sociological Association AAMC
• AcademyHealth NEGEA 

Honors & Awards

LKSOM Educational Excellence Award-Graduate/Non-MD Professional Program (2024)

Digital Bibliography

My Bibliography Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=iECbBlgAAAAJ&hl=en

Selected Publications

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

• Cabey, Whitney, Olivia Duffield*, Brendan Hart, Sam Stern and Tuohy, Brian. “Revive and Respect: Using Structural Humility to Reframe Discussions of Decision-Making Capacity”, American Journal of Bioethics, forthcoming *denotes student co-authors
• Garrido, Marco and Tuohy, Brian.. “A Relational and Historically Embedded Approach to Social Inequality” chapter for The Oxford Handbook of Comparative and Historical Sociology. forthcoming
• Calvelli, Hannah*, Carp, Julia E*., and Tuohy, Brian., “Voices of the Unheard: Informed Consent and Autonomy for Patients in Prison,” The Rutgers Journal of Bioethics, forthcoming
• Calvelli, Hannah*, Duffield, Olivia* and Tuohy, Brian., “Why Medical Students Should Learn About Prison Health”, BMJ, 384 (2024)
• Calvelli, Hannah*, Duffield, Olivia* and Tuohy, Brian “Closing a Gap in Medical Education: Service Learning to Address Health Inequity in Prisons”, Medical Education, 57:11 (2023)
• Tuohy, Brian and Jatres, Jillian., “Researching Those in the Shadows: Undocumented Immigrants, Vulnerability and the Significance of Research”, American Journal of Bioethics, 23:6 (2023), pp. 106-109
• Healy, Megan and Tuohy, Brian., “Trauma and Community: Trauma-Informed Ethics Consultation Grounded in Community-Engaged Principles”. American Journal of Bioethics. 22:5 (2022), pp. 71-73
• Rocco, Providenza and Tuohy, Brian., “A New Dawn of Bioethics: Advocacy and Social Justice” American Journal of Bioethics, 22:1 (2021) pp. 23-25.
• Tuohy, Brian. “Health Without Papers: Immigrants, Citizenship and Health in the 21st Century”, Social Forces, 98:3 (2020), pp. 1052-1073.
• Tuohy, Brian and Talen, Emily. “Urban Design in a New Age of Immigration” in City and Community, 16:4 (2017), pp. 374-379.

BOOK REVIEWS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS

• Calvelli, Hannah*, Olivia Duffield*, and Brian Tuohy. “Left in the Dark: The Censorship of Health Literature in Prisons”, op ed accepted at www.kevinmd.com (forthcoming)
• Tuohy, Brian. Review of Building a Better Chicago: Race and Community Resistance to Urban Redevelopment by Teresa Irene Gonzales. American Journal of Sociology, 129:2 (2023)
• Calvelli, Hannah*, Olivia Duffield* and Brian Tuohy. “A Novel Service Learning Program to Engage Medical Students in Prison Health”, AAMC Clinical Teaching and Learning Experiences
• Tuohy, Brian. Review of Fútbol in the Park: Immigrants, Soccer and the Creation of Social Ties by David Trouille. Social Forces, 101:2 (2022), pp.1-3

MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW (drafts available upon request)

• Zhang, Fan, Nora Jones, Priyanka Kolli and Brian Tuohy., “Tracking Personal Interests: Thinking More Holistically about Values and Subjectivity in Capacity-Assessments”, American Journal of Bioethics, forthcoming
• Tuohy, Brian, Hannah Calvelli and Lauren Olsen. “How Medical Students Learn about the Social: Opportunities and Limitations in Service Learning and Volunteering”, Social Science & Medicine, invited submission to special issue for “Beyond the hidden curriculum: Justice, power and innovation in health professions training”, Accepted Extended Abstract
• Stringer, Amy*, Lisa Liu*, Julia Marino*, Archana Mupparapu*, Anelisa Fergus*, Michael Vitez, Naomi Rosenberg and Brian Tuohy. “Story Slams: The Effects of Shared Narrative Events on Healthcare Professionals” International Journal of Medical Students, Revise and Resubmit
• Carp, Julia, Shreya Thakur, Brian Tuohy and Sharon Herring., “Using a positive deviance approach for understanding long-term participation in a fruit and vegetable prescription program”, Under Review
• Tuohy, Brian. “‘It’s a place where we can feel comfortable’: Citizenship Status and the Paradoxical Role of Safe Spaces in Immigrant Incorporation.” Under review Lai, Tianjian, Brian Tuohy and Roger Waldinger. “Legal Status and Disparities in Preventive Care Among Latino Immigrants in California.”