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.
