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I’m a doctor of health sciences, with specialization in global health. Areas of interest:

moral injury

medical neutrality

social and commercial determinants of health

women’s rights are human rights

Moral injury (MI) in the veteran population is an emerging theory in mental health distress. Moral injury is described as a psychologically and morally injurious event experienced in war and combat (Litz et al., 2009; Maguen & Litz 2019). Tension remains in the literature about MI’s definition, as well as its differences from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a comorbidity. Moreover, there is a dearth of published literature on gender specific differences in MI.

In my research, I continue to ask the following questions:

  1. What are the characteristics of MI in veterans?

  2. What are the challenges specific to addressing MI in female veterans?

moral injury in veterans