Ruqaiijah Yearby 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 has expertise in Bioethics, Civil Rights, Critical Legal Studies, Health Care Law, Health Justice, and Legal Epidemiology.
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, JAMA, the New England Journal of Medicine, and the Oxford Journal of Law and the Biosciences. She was recently awarded the McDonald-Merrill-Ketcham Award and served as a reviewer for the National Institutes of Health as well as the Swiss National Science Foundation. Professor Yearby’s scholarship can be found on Google Scholar here.
Prior to joining the faculty at Temple University, Professor Yearby held academic appointments at Harvard Medical School, The Ohio State University, 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.