Jyoti S. Madhusoodanan

Project focus: Doris Duke Racial Equity in Clinical Equations Civic Science Fellows will work to increase visibility and prioritization to develop a more rigorous approach to how race is applied and understood in the design of clinical algorithms and the assessments they inform.

Jyoti Madhusoodanan is a science and health journalist who covers biomedical research, health equity and other topics for Undark, Scientific American, Nature, and other outlets. Her reporting on racial inequities in algorithms, health disparities and clinical research has been supported by fellowships from the MIT Knight Science Journalism program, the Alicia Patterson Foundation, and others.