Dr. Vardit Ravitsky - Professor of Bioethics at the University of Montreal and at Harvard Medical School

Dr. Vardit Ravitsky is a Professor of Bioethics at the University
of Montreal and at Harvard Medical School. She is Immediate
Past-President and currently Vice-President of the International
Association of Bioethics. She is the Director of Ethics and
Health at the Center for Research on Ethics and holds a
Research-Creation Chair on the Re-appropriation of Maternity. She
is a 2020 Fellow of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation and
chaired the Foundation’s COVID-19 Impact Committee. She is also a
Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and of the
Hastings Center. 


Listen until 27:27 to hear Vardit talk about growing up and her
early curiosity.  


“I grew up in Jerusalem in a very homogeneous orthodox Jewish
community. I didn't speak English or French. I could only speak
Hebrew. The first time I left the country I was 13, so I had very
little exposure to otherness, and I think already at that early
age, I was tremendously curious about diversity. How do people
live in other countries, other culture, what is it like to speak
another language?


What are other people's norms and values and how are they
different? I was drawn to diversity before I even knew what it
was, or before I could put any content into it.”


Check out the book! - Fearless: Girls with Dreams, Women
with Vision


The Fearless Women Podcast


fearlesswomenpodcast@gmail.com


The Beacon Agency