and has been a leader in transforming public thinking and policy on reproductive health, child welfare, and bioethics. She is the author of Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (Random House/Pantheon, 1997; Twentieth Anniversary Edition, Vintage, 2017), Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare (Basic Books/Civitas, 2002), and Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century (New Press 2011), as well as co-editor of six books. She has also published more than 100 articles and essays in books and scholarly journals. Her TEDTalk, “The Problem with Race-Based Medicine,” has been viewed more than one million times.

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Roberts’s research has been supported by fellowships from American Council of Learned Societies, National Science Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Brocher Foundation, Harvard University Program in Ethics and the Professions, Stanford Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Northwestern Institute for Policy Research, and the Fulbright Program. She has served on the boards of directors of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the Black Women’s Health Imperative, and the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform, on the advisory boards of the Center for Genetics and Society, Generations Ahead, and Still She Rises, on the founding organizing committee of Symbioses: A Biosocial Research Network, and on the Standards Working Group of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Recent recognitions for her scholarship and public service include 2016 Society of Family Planning Lifetime Achievement Award, 2016 Harvard Women’s Law Association “Women Inspiring Change,” 2016 Tanner Lectures on Human Values, and 2015 American Psychiatric Association Solomon Carter Fuller Award. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, a fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, and a fellow of the Hastings Center.