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 Marcy Darnovsky and Osagie K. Obasogie, Bioethics Forum | 09.17.2007

The full story of 36-year-old Jolee Mohr's recent death in a gene therapy clinical trial for rheumatoid arthritis is still...

By Allen M. Hornblum and Osagie K. Obasogie, Philadelphia Inquirer | 09.13.2007

Any day now the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services may decide to turn back the clock to a...

By Osagie K. Obasogie, New Scientist | 08.18.2007

Of all the genetically determined traits that we might one day hope to control, skin colour is surely one of...

In the News

By David E. Winickoff and Osagie K. Obasogie, Trends in Pharmacological Sciences | 06.04.2008

Numerous articles and commentaries in the health literature recently have questioned the emergence of race as an increasingly powerful organizing...

By Osagie K. Obasogie and Pete Shanks, San Francisco Chronicle | 10.05.2007

Californians should be allowed to know what they're eating. That's the simple reason why Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger should sign SB63...

By Osagie K. Obasogie, Colorlines (Sept / Oct 2007) | 09.19.2007

300 is arguably the most racially charged movie since D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation. In true post-9/11...

Biopolitical Times