Osagie Obasogie

Osagie Obasogie, JD, PhD, is the Haas Distinguished Chair and Professor of Bioethics in the Joint Medical Program and School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley, where he chairs the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society's Diversity and Health Disparities Cluster. He is the author of Blinded By Sight: Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the Blind (Stanford University Press, 2014). His writings have spanned academic and public outlets, with journal articles in the Fordham Law Review, Stanford Technology Law Review, and Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, along with commentaries in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, and New Scientist, among others. He contributes regularly to CGS’s blog Biopolitical Times and is the former director of CGS’s Project on Bioethics, Law, and Society. Obasogie received his B.A. with distinction from Yale University, his J.D. from Columbia Law School where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley where he was a fellow with the National Science Foundation.

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Publications

By Osagie Obasogie, Cincinnati Enquirer | 10.21.2005

Recently, Jose Canseco and I were guests on a talk show to discuss gene doping, the genetic equivalent to anabolic...

By Osagie Obasogie, Boston Globe | 08.08.2005

It's a boy! It's a girl! Until the 1970s, these words welcomed virtually every child into the world. In less...

By Osagie Obasogie, San Francisco Chronicle | 07.05.2005

NitroMed's BiDil recently received FDA approval as the first drug targeted exclusively for a racial group -- African Americans with...

In the News

By Osagie Obasogie, Los Angeles Times | 08.29.2006

The recent breakthrough that may allow scientists to create human embryonic stem cells without destroying embryos may move stem cell...

By Osagie Obasogie and David Winickoff, Bioethics Forum | 07.19.2006

GenSpec, a Florida-based company, has begun selling new lines of multivitamins targeted at African-Americans, Caucasians, and Hispanics, touting them as...

By Osagie K. Obasogie, San Francisco Chronicle | 02.20.2006

President Bush's State of the Union address highlighted several key policy issues, such as America's dependency on foreign oil, the...

Biopolitical Times