Keisha Bentley-Edwards is the Associate Director of Research and Director of the Health Equity Working Group for the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity and an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Duke University. She is the Co-Director of Duke's Clinical and Translational Science Institute for Equity in Research. Her research investigating the role of structural racism, gender, and culture on health and education has been supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, IBM, and the National Institutes of Health.