Yetsa Tuakli-Wosornu Faculty

Biography

Yetsa A. Tuakli-Wosornu MD, MPH is a Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation physician specializing in sports and spine care, a disability rights advocate, and an elite athlete who represented Ghana in the women's long jump until 2016. As a physician-scientist, she works with numerous global sport and rehabilitation organizations and is the founding director of the Sports Equity Lab, a research group delivering athlete-centered content that tackles inequities in sport such as discrimination, social exclusion, disability stigma, harassment, abuse, and neglect, using translational bio-psychosocial science.

Primary appointment:
https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/yetsa_tuakli-wosornu/