Professor Roberts is a legal race scholar and public policy researcher "exposing racial inequities embedded in social service systems and uplifting the experiences of people caught up in them.
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Juneteenth: Celebrating Black Brilliance
Dorothy E. Roberts, Jennifer L. Morgan , Ruha Benjamin
PRSS Director Dorothy Roberts discusses the history, myths, and harms of race-based medicine in herTEDTalk: The Problem with Race-based Medicine, November 20, 2015. The talk was part of the 2015 TEDMED session called “Who Cares for Health Care?” that highlighted surprising perspectives and under-appreciated challenges facing our health care system.
Given that Penn Medical School was the first of its kind in colonial America, the University of Pennslyvania has a special responsibility to not only uncover its relationship to enslavement but to lead other institutions in similar efforts.