Crystal Lewis

Crystal N. Lewis, is a Public Health Law & Policy Analyst for Ohio State University and the Institute for Healing Justice and Equity https://ihje.org/. Crystal graduated in 2019 with a JD/MPH from Saint Louis University and has several years of social justice and legal research experience; specifically legal epidemiology, policy surveillance, and transdisciplinary collaboration. Crystal is currently co- teaching with Professor Ruqaiijah Yearby on Health Equity, Policy, and Advocacy. This class is a collaboration with the CDC’s Public Health Law Program and focused on discrimination in employment, specifically pregnancy discrimination. Other projects include being a co-lead in the national Collaborative for Anti-racism and Equity (CARE) https://herenow.org/ which includes continuing to track responses and declarations of racism as a public health crisis and health and racial equity frameworks on a national level and being a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Grant investigator focused on Housing Enforcement policy in the U.S.