Ruqaiijah Yearby
Education
- BS, University of Michigan
- MPH, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- JD, Georgetown University Law Center
Ruqaiijah Yearby is the Kara J. Trott Professor in Health Law at Moritz, 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. 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.
Professor Yearby has received over $5 million in grant funding from the National Institutes of Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to study structural racism and discrimination in vaccine allocation as well as the equitable enforcement of housing laws and structural racism in the health care system. 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.
Prior to joining the faculty at Ohio State, Professor Yearby held academic appointments at Harvard Medical School, University of Hawai`i at Mãnoa, Saint Louis University, Case Western Reserve University, University of Connecticut, University Buffalo, and Loyola University Chicago. She also 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.
In 2023, Professor Yearby was appointed to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections (SACHRP). She will serve a four-year term on the committee, which is tasked with developing recommendations to the Food and Drug Administration and the Office of Human Research Protections regarding institutional review boards and the use of human subjects in research.
Introduction: What is Heath Justice?, 50 J.L. Med. & Ethics 636 (2023)
The Social Determinants of Health, Health Disparities, and Health Justice, 50 J.L. Med. & Ethics 641 (2023)
Incorporating Structural Racism, Employment Discrimination, and Economic Inequities in the Social Determinants of Health framework to Understand Agricultural Worker Health Inequities, 112 Am. J. Pub. Health S65 (2023)
Racism Health Inequities: Race, Racism and the Law, in Race, Racism, and the Law (Aziza Ahmed & Guy-Uriel Charles eds., forthcoming 2023).
Eradicating Pandemic Health Inequities: Health Justice in Emergency Preparedness, in COVID-19 and the Law: Disruption, Impact, and Legacy (I. Glen Cohen & Abby Gluck eds., forthcoming 2023).
Racism is a Public Health Crisis: How Local Governments are Responding (2022).
Chapter 10: Asian Black, Indigenous and Latino People, in Essentials of Health Justice: Law, Policy, and Structural Change (Elizabeth Tobin-Tyler & Joel B. Teitelbaum eds., 2022).
Just to Get By: Poverty, Racism, and Smoking through the Lens of Talib Kweli and Nina Simone's Music, in Fight the Power: Law & Policy through Hip Hop Songs (Frank Ruddy Cooper & Gregory Parks eds., 2022).
Structural Racism in Historical and Modern U.S. Health Care Policy, 41 Health Aff. 187 (2022)