Ruqaiijah Yearby, Kara J. Trott Professor in Health Law at the Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University, will deliver the keynote address at this year’s Inclusive Excellence Symposium, “Charting a Path Forward for an Inclusive Future,” to take place Feb. 28 in the Center for the Arts.

Yearby is co-founder of the Institute for Healing Justice and Equity, and one of the co-founders of the Collaborative for Anti-Racism & Equity. She also holds appointments as a professor in the Department of Health Services Management and Policy in the College of Public Health at Ohio State, and as a faculty affiliate of the university’s Kirwan Institute.

Yearby has received more than $5 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to study structural racism and discrimination in vaccine allocation, as well as the equitable enforcement of housing laws and structural racism in the health care system. Her work has been published in the American Journal of Bioethics, American Journal of Public Health, Emory Law Journal, Health Affairs. and the Oxford Journal of Law and the Biosciences.

In addition to Yearby’s keynote, the symposium will feature a panel on “Challenges to DEI and Social Justice” with UB faculty members Athena D. Mutua and LaGarrett King, as well as a panel on “Strategies for an Inclusive Future” with faculty members Henry-Louis Taylor Jr. and Mishuana Goeman.

Organizers say the event is an opportunity for the UB community to come together to explore how we can continue to build a better future for all.

Participants are asked to register by Feb. 19.