Dayna Matthew, JD, PhD

Dayna Bowen Matthew is the Dean and Harold H. Greene Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School. A leader in public health and civil rights law who focuses on disparities in health, healthcare, and the social determinants of health, Dayna joined GW Law in 2020. She is also the Founder and inaugural faculty Director of GW’s newly chartered Equity Institute, an interdisciplinary research hub dedicated to addressing racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic injustice. A prolific writer, Dayna is the author of two bestselling books, Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care, and the recently released Just Health: Treating Structural Racism to Heal America, and the Co-Author of a case book on public health law, ethics, and policy.