Jasmine Brown is an American author and medical student. She is the author of the 2023 book, Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century.

Brown lived in Indiana for a period during her childhood and she frequently visited extended family members in St. Louis.^[1] In 2014, Brown graduated from Hillsborough High School in Hillsborough Township, New Jersey.^[2] She was a member of its track and field, the National Honor Society, and the Sociedad Honoraria Hispánica.^[2]

Brown attended Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis as an Ervin Scholar.^[3] She majored in biology with a focus in neuroscience.^[2] Brown founded and served as president of the Minority Association of Rising Scientists.^[2] She was a research assistant at a few institutions including the Broad Institute where conducted researched cancer, Johns Hopkins University where she conducted pulmonary research, and Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine where she conducted behavioral research.^[2] In the spring of 2018, she was investigating the molecular pathways of the West Nile and Zika viruses.^[3] She was a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha.^[3] Brown graduated with a B.A. in 2018.^[4]

In late 2017, Brown won a Rhodes Scholarship.^[5] In January 2018, the township committee of Hillsborough Township honored Brown with a proclamation for her Rhodes selection.^[2] In 2020, Brown earned a MPhil in the history of science, medicine, and technology from the Hertford College, Oxford.^[6] She researched the impacts of Black women physicians in medicine and American society.^[6]

In 2020, Brown enrolled at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.^[7] In January 2023, during her third year of medical school, she authored a book based on her earlier research on Black women in medicine.^[8] In it, Brown profiles nine physicians including Rebecca Lee Crumpler, May Edward Chinn, and Marilyn Gaston.^[8]

• Brown, Jasmine (2023). Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century. Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0-8070-2508-6.^[9]