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Professor Mohapatra's Work on Systemic Racism Cited by Vox
06/09/2020
IU McKinney Associate Professor Mohapatra’s recent scholarship on the COVID-19 pandemic and structural racism was cited in a recent Vox piece, “What Public Health Experts Want Critics to Know about Why They Support the Protests.”
The Vox story picks up on an article by Professor Mohapatra and Professor Ruqaiijah Yearby of the St. Louis University School of Law, which notes that many racial and ethnic minorities are likely to be classified as “essential workers” and are unable to work from home, leave their job, or access paid sick leave. Years of racist housing policies and lack of access to health care also put them at greater risk.
Professor Mohapatra is a Dean’s Fellow at IU McKinney Law. Her research has focused on equity issues, centering on race and gender, in bioethics, public health law, and biotechnology and the law. She is an expert in the areas of health care law, public health law, bioethics, torts, and international family law.
