Anna Rogers Wrote About How Anti-DEI Measures Will Harm Medical Research

For Slate, Anna Rogers wrote about how the “anti-DEI executive orders will harm the future of medical research.” 

Rogers discusses how she had been on a “team of bioethicists, educators, and clinical staff to develop resources about sex and gender in genomics research” until she resigned after inauguration. In the piece, Rogers contextualizes why inclusivity is so important in medical research and shares why she’s worried about how getting rid of these initiatives would exacerbate the public’s broad distrust in the medical establishment. 

She writes, “What we do know is that health disparities shorten life expectancies and lead to premature deaths that may have been preventable. But you can’t treat what you’re not willing to look at in the first place.” 

Rogers’ writing has appeared in Scientific American, Massive Science, and other outlets.