Holden Thorp, Gil Eyal, Tess Lanzarotta, Damon Scott Tweedy and Yolonda Y. Wilson

Participants explored how publication trends and directions for race-focused work in areas of science and medical research have been shaped by public conversations, the makeup of editorial boards, and field-specific debates themselves, among other sources of influence and power structures.

Panelists included:

• Gil Eyal, professor of sociology, Columbia University
• Tess Lanzarotta, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Science in Human Culture Program, Northwestern University
• Damon Scott Tweedy, professor of psychiatry, Duke University School of Medicine
• Yolonda Y. Wilson, associate professor in the Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics, Saint Louis University

This event was moderated by Holden Thorp, editor-in-chief, Science family of journals and sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity (CRE2).