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Ruqaiijah Yearby, JD, MPH (she/her/hers)

Professor
The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio

Ruqaiijah Yearby (sher/her), J.D., M.P.H is the inaugural Kara J. Trott Professor in Law at the Moritz College of Law, Professor in the Department of Health Services Management and Policy at the College of Public Health, and a faculty affiliate of the Kirwan Institute at The Ohio State University. Professor Yearby has received over $5 million in grant funding from the National Institutes of Health to study structural racism and discrimination in vaccine allocation and from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to study the equitable enforcement of housing laws and structural racism in the health care system. She was recently awarded the McDonald-Merrill-Ketcham Award and served as a reviewer for the National Institutes of Health as well as the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Her work has been published in the American Journal of Bioethics, American Journal of Public Health, Emory Law Journal, Health Affairs, and the Oxford Journal of Law and the Biosciences. Her American Journal of Bioethics article, ‘Race Based Medicine, Color Blind Disease: How Racism in Medicine Harms Us All,’ was one of the top ten articles of the last three years (2020-2023) in that journal. Furthermore, her co-authored Health Affairs article with Professor Brietta Clark and Dr. Jose Figueroa, ‘Structural Racism in Historical and Modern U.S. Health Care Policy’, was one of the top ten articles of 2022 in that journal.

She earned her B.S. in Honors Biology from the University of Michigan, M.P.H. from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. She worked at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as an Assistant Regional Counsel and served as a law clerk for the Honorable Ann Claire Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

Disclosure(s): Oregon Health Authority: Consultant (Ongoing)

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