McNair Scholar 2023 Jayce Warner
Jayce Warner is a senior Nutrition student at the University of Minnesota. Her research interests revolve around access and inequity issues in the U.S. healthcare system. Miss Warner plans on getting her Ph.D. in Healthcare Services Research and Administration with a concentration in Bioethics.
My dream is to transform healthcare systems to be more responsive and inclusionary of those who have intermittent insurance coverage, and to reorient medicine toward a preventative, patient centered care model.
Research project
The Impact of Insurance Health Metrics on Patient Centered Care
Abstract: In the course of biological science, there has been a shift away from qualitative values to quantitative values about an individual's health. This objectification of the individual is upheld by insurance companies, which reduce the value of human life to cost of treatment. As witnessed today, modern medicine is engaged in crisis care and not preventive care that would afford an individual the opportunity to flourish in our complex environment. I will interrogate this complex issue by examining a group of individuals existing in what I consider an in-between precarious space of insurance coverage. I will look at this problem through the lens of nutrition, whose care models are based on the individual’s needs. To accomplish this, I will examine texts about nutritional values from the seventeenth century to present day to consider how we might recover practices that center the individual’s cultural and medical health values.
Faculty mentor
Magdala Lissa Jeudy earned her Ph.D. from Cornell University in Romance Studies in 2021. Her research focuses on the ways that French Naturalist narratives complicate our notions of normal, which define modern medical practices and philosophies from the nineteenth century to the present day. Her work aims to disrupt medical constructs of disability, gender, and race. She is committed to a pedagogy that is a process of inquiry, which allows students to question their deeply entrenched assumptions, reconfigure concepts of normalcy, and accept the unique circumstances of others leading to recognition and celebration of diversity.