She has been Editor of the Harvard Journal of Minority Public Health and a guest Editor of the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics. Washington has written widely for popular and science publications and has also been published in refereed books and journals such as Nature, JAMA, The American Journal of Public Health, The New England Journal of Medicine, The Harvard Public Health Review and The Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics. James Marion Sims’ experimental surgeries on African American women led to the removal and banishment of his statue from New York’s Central Park.
In 2008, JAMA published an article she co-authored, which formed the basis for the American Medical Association’s apology to the nation’s black physicians.
She teaches a bioethics course at Columbia University and presents her work in the history of medicine to universities throughout the US and Europe. She has also held fellowships at Stanford University, holds a degree in English from the University of Rochester, an MA in journalism from Columbia University and in 2016 was elected a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine.
Washington is a science writer, editor and ethicist who has been a Research Fellow in Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School, Visiting Fellow at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, a visiting scholar at DePaul University College of Law and a senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at Tuskegee University.
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