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During the 7th Annual University of Pennsylvania Martin Luther King Jr. Health Equity Symposium, Penn Medicine announced a new anti-racism across the Penn health system. Dorothy Roberts (PSC Research Associate) participated in a panel discussion and announcement of the new Action for Cultural Transformation (ACT) initiative designed to "develop strategies to ensure equity, mitigate bias, and eliminate racism at Penn Medicine." Read more about the event and initiative in the Penn LDI news.
Dorothy E. Roberts (PSC Research Associate) and Julia Lynch (PARC Research Associate) were featured on a recent episode of OMNIA's In These Times podcast. Listen to the episode, "Exacerbating the Healthcare Divide."
Dorothy Roberts (PSC Research Associate) was recently featured in the Marketplace Tech podcast episode, entitled "Viruses Don't Discriminate, but Healthcare Often Does."
Director, Program on Race, Science and Society
George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology
Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights
Professor of Africana Studies
J.D., Law, Harvard University, 1980
Dorothy Roberts, an acclaimed scholar of race, gender and the law, joined the University of Pennsylvania as its 14th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Sociology and the Law School where she also holds the inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mosell Alexander chair. Her pathbreaking work in law and public policy focuses on urgent contemporary issues in health, social justice, and bioethics, especially as they impact the lives of women, children and African-Americans. Her major books include Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century (New Press, 2011); Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare (Basic Books, 2002), and Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (Pantheon, 1997). She is the author of more than 80 scholarly articles and book chapters, as well as a co-editor of six books on such topics as constitutional law and women and the law.
