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Ruqaiijah Yearby is the Judge Clifford Scott Green Professor at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law. She is also Co-Founder of the Institute for Healing Justice & Equity and the Collaborative for Anti-Racism & Equity. Her expertise spans Bioethics, Civil Rights, Critical Legal Studies, Health Care Law, and Structural Racism Analysis. She has secured over $5 million in NIH and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grants to study vaccine allocation equity, housing law enforcement, and systemic racism in healthcare.
Before Temple, she held academic roles at Harvard Medical School, The Ohio State University, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, and others. She served as Assistant Regional Counsel at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and as a law clerk for the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
Her research focuses on dismantling structural racism in healthcare and law, with a focus on racial equity, health justice, and policy reform. Key publications explore racial disparities in biomedical research, workplace discrimination, and pandemic response inequities. She has been awarded the McDonald-Merrill-Ketcham Award and reviewed NIH and Swiss National Science Foundation grants.
Her advocacy extends to health equity units, anti-racism frameworks, and legal epidemiology. She collaborates with interdisciplinary teams to address systemic barriers in healthcare access and employment rights.
