Faculty
Ruqaiijah A. Yearby |
Loyola University Chicago | |
| Courses Taught
Bioethics and the Law
Publications Articles A Right to No Meaningful Review Under the Due Process Clause: The Aftermath of Judicial Deference to the Federal Administrative Agencies, 16 Health-Matrix: Journal of Law-Medicine 723-783 (2006) Is It Too Late For Title VI Enforcement?: Seeking Redemption of the Unequal United States' Long Term Care System Through International Means, 9 DEPAUL J. HEALTH CARE L. 971-1004 (2005) Good Enough To Use for Research, But Not Good Enough To Benefit from the Results of That Research: Are the Clinical HIV Vaccine Trials in Africa Unjust?, 53 DePAUL LAW REVIEW 1127-1153 (2004)
Book Chapters Medical Treatment Decisions, in 27 ILLINOIS JURISPRUDENCE 823-862, HEALTH CARE LAW (2005) (invited author)
Other Publications Contributor to The State of Health Privacy: An Uneven Terrain, 607 Practising L.Inst. (June 2000) 1998-1999 Case Report of the Trademark Litigation Committee of the American Intellectual Property Law Association (October 1999) (with Thomas White and Dawn Cutlan) Case Summary, Rx Ipsa Loquitur (July 1999) (with Nick Lynn) Medicare's New Underclass, RT Imaging, Vol. 1d, R. 13 (July 1999) (with Matt Murer)
Empirical Scholarship
Works in Progress You Can't Win, You Can't Break Even, And You Can't Get Out Of The Game: The Continuation Of Federally Funded Racial Discrimination Forty Years After The Enactment Of Title VI
Recent Presentations "Making Rhetoric A Reality: Granting the African American Community Equal Access to Quality Long Term Care", Marquette University Law School, Milwaukee, WI, Invited Speaker, March 28, 2008. "You Can’t Win, You Can’t Break Even, and You Can’t Get Out of the Game: Stopping The Cycle of Racial Inequities in Health Care Forty Years After the Passage of Title VI", Brooklyn Law School, New York, NY, Invited Speaker, February 21, 2008. "Vulnerable Populations: Emergency Preparedness", University of Maryland, Center for Health and Homeland Security, Invited Participant, November 5-7, 2007. "Addressing Racial Disparities in the Long-Term Care System: Using Law to Create Public Health Solutions", Penn State University, Harrisburg, PA, Keynote Speaker, March 2, 2007. [presentation slides] "HIV Vaccine Trials in the United States and Africa: The Same Scientists, Types of Research, and Funding Sources, but Different Ethical Protections for Human Subjects", Penn State University, Harrisburg, PA, Invited Speaker, March 1, 2007 Striving for Equal Access and Quality, But Settling for the Status Quo: Is Title VI More Illusory Than Real? American Public Health Association, Boston, MA, November 2006 [presentation poster] [presentation slides] Moving Past the Rhetoric to Save Lives: Developing Effective HIV/AIDS Prevention Programs in the United States and Abroad, Loyola University Chicago, April 2006 [slides] Striving for Equal Access and Quality, But Settling for the Status Quo: Is Title VI More Illusory Than Real?, University of Maryland, School of Law, Baltimore, MD, June 2006 (poster) Is It Too Late For Title VI Enforcement?: Seeking Redemption of the Unequal United States' Long Term Care System Through International Means, Saint Louis University, School of Law, Saint Louis, Missouri, Feburary 2006 You Can't Win, You Can't Break Even, And You Can't Get Out Of The Game: Interest Convergence and the Continuation of Racial Disparities in Health Care Forty Years After the Enactment of Title VI, American University Washington College of Law, Washington, DC, January 2006 Striving for Equal Access and Quality, But Settling for the Status Quo: Is Title VI More Illusory Than Real?, American Association of Law Schools, Washington, DC, January 2006 (poster) [slides] Women and the Judiciary, DePaul University College of Law, October 2005 Fulfilling the Promise of Justice: Equal Access to Health Care, American College of Legal Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, October 2005 [slides] A Right To No Meaningful Review In Federal Administrative Agency Hearings: The Aftermath of Shalala v. Illinois Council On Long Term Care, Inc., at the 29th Annual Health Law Teachers Conference, June 3, 2005 [slides] Civil Rights In Nursing Homes: The Unfilled Promise of Equal Quality, at Loyola University, School of Law, March 18, 2005 [slides] Racial Disparities In Nursing Homes: Building On A Corrupted Foundation of Inequality, at the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, DePaul University Symposium, March 5, 2005 [slides] HIV Vaccine Trials in the United States and Africa: The Same Scientists, Types of Research, and Funding Sources, but Different Ethical Protections for Human Subjects, at Northwestern University, School of Medicine, December 3, 2004 [slides] Are the HIV Vaccine Trials in the United States and Abroad Just?, at Loyola University, World AIDS Day, December 1, 2004 [slides] Due Process According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: The Aftermath of Shalala v. Illinois Council on Long Term Inc., 28th Annual Health Law Teachers Conference, Seton Hall School of Law, Newark, NJ, June 2004 [slides] HIV Vaccine Trials in the United States and Africa: The Same Scientists, Types of Research, and Funding Sources, but Different Ethical Protections for Human Subjects, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, April 2004 [speech] "Recent Trends in Fraud and Abuse and Internet Pharmacies," Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Master of Jurisprudence Alumni Continuing Education Program, October 2003 [slides] "The Efficacy of Conducting HIV Vaccine Trials in Africa," DePaul Law Review, Annual Symposium, March 2003 "Survivor! The Survey," Illinois Health Care Association, Annual Conference, September 2001 "Nursing Home Compliance: The Long Road to Protecting the Unprotected," Loyola University chicago School of Law, April 2001 "The Effect of the Employment Retirement Income Security Act on State Health Care Reform," Health Care For All Coalition Meeting, March 1999 "The Sustainability of Community Health Workers in Maryland," Kellogg Foundation, Conference on Community Health Workers, December 1998
Awards and Honors Mid-American Public Health Fellowship, Mid-America Regional Public Health Leadership Institute, University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health, August 2004 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Secretary's Award for Distinguished Service (for community service activities), 2001 African American Alumni Council of the University of Michigan, "Five under Ten" Young Alumni Recognition Award, 2000 | ||
