Michael Yudell, PhD, MPH
Presented on Wednesday, July 20, 2022 – 4:00 PM MST
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Michael Yudell, PhD, MPH examines the history of the use of race concepts in health and genetics research, considering the evolution of thinking on this topic, ethical issues associated with the use of race and other population identifiers, and practical and policy challenges related to the use and misuse of population identifiers in this webinar. He is the author of Race Unmasked: Biology and Race in the 20th Century (Columbia University Press, 2014), winner of the 2016 Arthur J. Viseltear Award from the American Public Health Association. The book examines the way biologists shaped the race concept during the 20th century from eugenics to the sequencing of the human genome.
Michael Yudell is public health ethicist and award-winning historian whose work focuses on the history and ethics of genomics, the history of the race concept, and the history and ethics of autism research. Yudell received his PhD and MPH from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, an MPhil in U.S. History from the Graduate Center at the City University of New York, and his BA in History and Soviet and Eastern European Studies from Tufts University.