Ruqaiijah Yearby

Professor

Kara J. Scott Professor in Health Law

Health Services Management and Policy

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Ruqaiijah Yearby

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Email: yearby.1@osu.edu
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Ruqaiijah Yearby, J.D., M.P.H is the inaugural Kara J. Trott Professor in Health Law at the Moritz College of Law and Professor in the Department of Health Services Management and Policy at the College of Public Health at The Ohio State University.

Professor Yearby has received over $5 million in grant funding from the National Institutes of Health to study structural racism and discrimination in vaccine allocation and from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to study 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.

She earned her BS in Honors Biology from the University of Michigan, MPH from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and her JD from Georgetown University Law Center. She 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.