Brittany Acors is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Bioethics. She received her PhD in Religious Studies (American Religious History) from the University of Virginia, where she also earned a Master of Public Health. Her research interests relate to the intersection of medicine, religion, and disability in U.S. history. Her dissertation explored American religious responses to the twentieth-century polio epidemics and vaccines as narrated by survivors in their memoirs. While at NIH, she will be working on topics related to the inclusion of people with disabilities and religious minorities in clinical research, the history of patient advocacy and of bioethics departments, and ethical and public health issues related to religion and disability.