The Health Justice Collaborative is a group of community activists, educators, lawyers, and researchers working together to transform the systems that impact communities and individual’s health and wellbeing. The Collaborative works towards creating an environment where individuals and populations attain health equality, where everyone gets what they need to be healthy.
Developing an Equity-Centered Approach to Enforcing Housing Laws
Tenants, landlords, government officials, lawyers, judges, and law enforcement all complain about the inequitable enforcement of housing laws. This project highlights gaps in the enforcement system and provides promising practices to fix the system.
Ruqaiijah Yearby, JD, MPH, 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 earned her B.S. in Honors Biology from the University of Michigan, M.P.H. from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. She started her career as an Assistant Regional Counsel for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Professor Yearby’s scholarship focuses on law, justice, and medical research. 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 is a member of the editorial board for the American Journal of Bioethics and the Journal of Law, Medicine, & Ethics. She previously served as a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee to assess the use of the social constructs of race and ethnicity in biomedical research and a member of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections.