Nia Johnson is a legal scholar whose work lies at the intersection of health law, bioethics, and race and the law. Her research examines how experiences of exclusion—both perceived andstructural—shape healthcare institutions, policies, and markets. Johnson's current research extends these questions to the growing markets for health information, products, and services that operate alongside or outside traditional healthcare institutions. Her work brings questions of consumer demand and market incentives into conversation with longstanding concerns about marginalization and health information dissemination, asking how these forces can create legal and bioethical risks for populations already navigating mistrust or exclusion.

Johnson's scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in the Boston College Law Review, Harvard Law and Policy Review, Michigan Journal of Race and Law, JAMA Health Forum, andthe Hastings Center Report. Her contributions have been recognized with the Duke Universit yEndowment's Wilhelmina M. Reuben-Cooke Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and PracticesFellowship (2023–2024), the Duke Initiative for Science and Society Faculty and Staff Leadership Award (2023), and the Emerson Collective Fellowship: Recover and Renew Cohort (2020–2021). She has also served as a writer for Crash Course, a PBS-sponsored educational YouTube channel.

Johnson earned her B.A. in International Studies from Oakwood University, her Master of Bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania, and her J.D. from Boston University School of Law, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Law and Medicine (2018–2019). She completed her Ph.D. in Health Policy, with a concentration in Political Analysis, at Harvard University in 2023. From 2022 to 2025, she served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Duke University School of Law and Duke University's Initiative on Science and Society.