Ruqaiijah Yearby, JD, MPH:

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Ruqaiijah Yearby, JD, MPH, is the Judge Clifford Scott Green Professor at Temple University Beasley School of Law. She is also Co-founder of the Institute for Healing Justice & Equity and one of the Co-Founders of the Collaborative for Anti-Racism & Equity.

She earned her B.S. in Honors Biology from the University of Michigan, M.P.H. from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. She started her career as an Assistant Regional Counsel for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Professor Yearby’s scholarship focuses on law, justice, and medical research. Due to her expertise in these areas, she presented her at the Oxford Global Health and Bioethics International Conference at the University of Oxford. Her work has been published in the American Journal of Bioethics, American Journal of Public Health, Emory Law Journal, Health Affairs, JAMA, the New England Journal of Medicine, and the Oxford Journal of Law and the Biosciences.

She is a member of the editorial board for the American Journal of Bioethics and the Journal of Law, Medicine, & Ethics. Additionally, Professor Yearby served as a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee to assess the use of the social constructs of race and ethnicity in biomedical research, and a member of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections