JASMINE BROWN

AUTHOR + doctor + Rhodes Scholar + Activist

Jasmine Brown’s Bio

Jasmine Brown began writing Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century when she was twenty-two. A 2018 recipient of the Rhodes Scholarship, she used her time at the University of Oxford to complete the in-depth research and oral histories synthesized in this book. In the spring of 2020, she graduated from Oxford with Merit, earning an M.Phil. in History of Science, Medicine, and Technology. That fall, she began medical school at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Brown leverages her connection to her topic to create a work that is both immensely well-researched and personal.

Brown has been involved in advocacy work for many years. While in college, at Washington University in St. Louis, she founded the Minority Association of Rising Scientists and served as its president, working to provide minority students with resources to get involved in research as well as a community to support them along the way. It was her childhood dream to help increase the number of underrepresented minorities in science and medicine. Through her debut book and outreach efforts, she plans to do just that.

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• Black women in medicine in the USA: telling their stories | The Lancet

• Penn medical student featured in Time Magazine for highlighting Black, female physicians in new book | 6abc Action News

• A Conversation with Jasmine Brown, Author, Rhodes Scholar and Medical Student | American Board of Internal Medicine

• The Unsung Stories of 3 Pioneering Black Female Doctors | TIME

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