Melisa Osborne
Part-Time Instructor
Melisa Osborne is a trained biochemist and research assistant professor in the Daniel Segrè Lab at Boston University. She developed and teaches the course BI/BF510 Institutional Racism in Health and Science in the Department of Biology and Graduate Program of Bioinformatics at Boston University. At BU Wheelock, she is the primary instructor for WED SC 645, an online offering of Institutional Racism in Health in Science that is part of the EdM in Education for Equity & Social Justice certificate and degree programs.
Pronouns: she/her
Education
PhD, Biochemistry, Brandeis University
BA, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The College of Wooster
Courses
WED SC 645 Institutional Racism in Health and Science
Selected Presentations
Crawford, F.A., Osborne, M., Shah, B., Labadorf, A., McKenna, T.J., & Rueger, T. (2023). “An instrument for detecting bias in text.” American Association of Colleges & Universities. Conference on Diversity, Equity and Student Success: Can we handle truth? Henderson, Nevada March 9-11, 2023
Felicity Crawford, Katherine Davis, Trish Elliott, Beverly Heinze-Lacey, Adam Labadorf, Christian Mazimpaka, T.J. McKenna, Melisa Osborne, Theresa Rueger, Barkha Shah, Erin Sivak, Lesly Zapata. “A model of racial equity training that empowers school nurses to promote an anti-racist environment.” (2023, May) National Network of Public Health Institutes Conference (NNPHI) Washington, DC
Stephens, V., Seliga, A., Osborne, M., Shah, B., Driscoll, L. “Committing to the Committee: A Successful Approach to Impactful DEIAJ Work.” National Conference on Race and Ethnicity (NCORE) 2023. New Orleans, Louisiana, May 30-June 3, 3023.
“Picture a Scientist” Discussion Panel (Co-Moderator). Boston University, Wheelock College of Education and Human Development. April 20th, 2021. https://youtu.be/smKEYEjBnTw?si=AKtB4NxiWIV6x3_u