Jasmine Brown | |
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Education | Washington University (BA) Hertford College, Oxford (MPhil) University of Pennsylvania |
Website | Official website |
Jasmine Brown is an American author and medical student. She is the author of the 2023 book, Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century.
Brown lived in Indiana for a period during her childhood and she frequently visited extended family members in St. Louis.[1] In 2014, Brown graduated from Hillsborough High School in Hillsborough Township, New Jersey.[2] She was a member of its track and field, the National Honor Society, and the Sociedad Honoraria Hispánica.[2]
Brown attended Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis as an Ervin Scholar.[3] She majored in biology with a focus in neuroscience.[2] Brown founded and served as president of the Minority Association of Rising Scientists.[2] She was a research assistant at a few institutions including the Broad Institute where conducted researched cancer, Johns Hopkins University where she conducted pulmonary research, and Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine where she conducted behavioral research.[2] In the spring of 2018, she was investigating the molecular pathways of the West Nile and Zika viruses.[3] She was a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha.[3] Brown graduated with a B.A. in 2018.[4]
In late 2017, Brown won a Rhodes Scholarship.[5] In January 2018, the township committee of Hillsborough Township honored Brown with a proclamation for her Rhodes selection.[2] In 2020, Brown earned a MPhil in the history of science, medicine, and technology from the Hertford College, Oxford.[6] She researched the impacts of Black women physicians in medicine and American society.[6]
In 2020, Brown enrolled at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.[7] In January 2023, during her third year of medical school, she authored a book based on her earlier research on Black women in medicine.[8] In it, Brown profiles nine physicians including Rebecca Lee Crumpler, May Edward Chinn, and Marilyn Gaston.[8]