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Dayna Bowen Matthew, JD, PhD serves as the Dean and Harold H. Greene Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School, where she joined in 2020. She is a prominent leader in public health and civil rights law with a focus on health disparities and structural racism.
Her research interests center on eliminating racial inequality in American healthcare systems. As author of the bestselling book Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care and Just Health: Treating Structural Racism to Heal America, she examines how structural racism impacts health outcomes and proposes legal solutions to address these disparities. Her work bridges law, public health, and social justice, with particular attention to the social determinants of health.
- Member, American Law Institute
- Non-resident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
- Member, CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices' COVID-19 Vaccine Working Group
- Member, American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics
- Member, Scientific Advisory Council of the Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts
Dean Matthew has extensive experience in policy development, having served as Senior Adviser to the Director of the Office of Civil Rights for the EPA and as a member of Senator Debbie Stabenow's health policy team. She co-founded the Colorado Health Equity Project and was instrumental in establishing The Equity Center at the University of Virginia.
