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''.

Life

Brown lived in Indiana during her childhood and she frequently visited extended family members in St. Louis, Missouri. In 2014, Brown graduated from Hillsborough High School in Hillsborough Township, New Jersey. She was a member of its track and field, the

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, and the

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. Brown attended Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis as an Ervin Scholar. She majored in biology with a focus in neuroscience. Brown founded and served as president of the Minority Association of Rising Scientists. 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 the

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at the University of Miami, where she conducted behavioral research. In the spring of 2018, she was investigating the molecular pathways of the West Nile and Zika viruses. She was a member of the

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. Brown graduated with a B.A. in 2018. In late 2017, Brown won a

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. In January 2018, the township committee of Hillsborough Township honored Brown with a proclamation for her Rhodes selection. In 2020, Brown earned a MPhil in the history of science, medicine, and technology from the Hertford College, Oxford. She researched the impacts of Black women physicians in medicine and American society. In 2020, Brown enrolled at the

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. In January 2023, during her third year of medical school, she authored a book based on her earlier research on Black women in medicine. In it, Brown profiles nine physicians including

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, May Edward Chinn, and

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Selected works

* Reviews of ''Twice as Hard'': * * * *

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Brown, Jasmine Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) Hillsborough High School (New Jersey) alumni Washington University in St. Louis alumni Alumni of Hertford College, Oxford American Rhodes Scholars 21st-century African-American women writers 21st-century African-American writers 21st-century American women writers Historians from New Jersey 21st-century American women scientists 21st-century American historians African-American historians American medical historians Historians of African Americans American women historians Medical students Scientists from New Jersey 21st-century African-American scientists Women's historians People from Hillsborough Township, New Jersey 21st-century African-American academics 21st-century American academics