Deborah Streahle is a historian of medicine whose research focuses on end-of-life care and health activism in the U.S. across the 20^th century. Additional areas of interest include technology, reproductive health, disability, and alternative medicine. Deborah has developed a variety of history courses and workshops for college and high school students in the History of Science, Medicine, and Public Health major, the Yale Young Global Scholars Program, the Life Worth Living Program, and Yale Summer Session.

She earned a B.A. in Philosophy from Lehigh University and a Ph.D. in History of Science and Medicine from Yale University. As Guest Historian at the Intrepid Museum, Deborah is co-curating an exhibition about Navy medicine on the restored medical facilities of a historic aircraft carrier. Her research has been featured on COVID Calls, the Dead Ladies Show podcast, and in the Los Angeles Review of Books. She is active in efforts to decolonize death studies and in disability advocacy.