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Sakena Abedin is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of History at Yale University, where she practices as a primary care pediatrician. She completed her PhD in the History of Science and Medicine from Yale in 2016. Her historical research focuses on the encounters of medicine with the social world and the ways in which social problems are medicalized in clinical research practice. Currently, she is working on a project based on her dissertation, which examines the history of clinical social science research in relation to patient behavior, specifically looking at patients' compliance with doctor's advice. Her teaching interests include the history of healthcare for underserved populations and the history of racial disparities in health in the United States.
Administered via the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS). GRE General is optional for PhD.