Joel Teitelbaum, JD, LLM
Professor and Director of the Hirsh Health Law and Policy Program
Milken Institute School of Public Health
The George Washington University
Joel Teitelbaum, J.D., LL.M., is Professor, Director of the Hirsh Health Law and
Policy Program, and Co-Director of the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership at the George Washington University (GW) Milken Institute School of
Public Health in Washington, D.C. He also carries a faculty appointment in the GW School of Law. He has taught courses on healthcare law, healthcare civil rights, public health law, and minority health policy. Professor Teitelbaum was the first member of the School of Public Health faculty to receive the University-wide Bender Teaching Award, he has received the School’s Excellence in Teaching Award, and he is a member of the GW Academy of Distinguished Teachers and the School’s Academy of Master Teachers. In addition to his training in health law from GW Law, he holds a certificate in Sustainable Management from Duke University, and he completed a postgraduate course of study in International Human Rights Law through the Human Rights Law Centre at England’s University of Nottingham School of Law.
He has authored or co-authored dozens of peer-reviewed articles and reports in addition to many book chapters, policy briefs, and blogs on law and social drivers of health, health equity, civil rights issues in healthcare, health reform and its implementation, medical-legal partnership, and insurance law and policy, and he is the co-author of both Essentials of Health Policy and Law, Fifth Edition (2023) and Essentials of Health Justice: Law, Policy and Structural Change (2023). He has directed many health law and policy research projects, including as co-recipient of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research, and he has delivered more than 100 invited lectures/presentations at leading universities and national conferences.
Among other organizations, Professor Teitelbaum is a member of Delta Omega, the national honor society recognizing excellence in the field of public health; the ASPH/Pfizer Public Health Academy of Distinguished Teachers; and the Society for American Law Teachers. In 2016, during President Obama’s second term, Professor Teitelbaum became the first lawyer named to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary’s Advisory Committee on National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives (a.k.a. “Healthy People”), the national agenda aimed at improving the health of all Americans over a 10-year span.
Professor and Director of the Hirsh Health Law and Policy Program
Milken Institute School of Public Health
The George Washington University
Joel Teitelbaum, J.D., LL.M., is Professor, Director of the Hirsh Health Law and
Policy Program, and Co-Director of the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership at the George Washington University (GW) Milken Institute School of
Public Health in Washington, D.C. He also carries a faculty appointment in the GW School of Law. He has taught courses on healthcare law, healthcare civil rights, public health law, and minority health policy. Professor Teitelbaum was the first member of the School of Public Health faculty to receive the University-wide Bender Teaching Award, he has received the School’s Excellence in Teaching Award, and he is a member of the GW Academy of Distinguished Teachers and the School’s Academy of Master Teachers. In addition to his training in health law from GW Law, he holds a certificate in Sustainable Management from Duke University, and he completed a postgraduate course of study in International Human Rights Law through the Human Rights Law Centre at England’s University of Nottingham School of Law.
He has authored or co-authored dozens of peer-reviewed articles and reports in addition to many book chapters, policy briefs, and blogs on law and social drivers of health, health equity, civil rights issues in healthcare, health reform and its implementation, medical-legal partnership, and insurance law and policy, and he is the co-author of both Essentials of Health Policy and Law, Fifth Edition (2023) and Essentials of Health Justice: Law, Policy and Structural Change (2023). He has directed many health law and policy research projects, including as co-recipient of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research, and he has delivered more than 100 invited lectures/presentations at leading universities and national conferences.
Among other organizations, Professor Teitelbaum is a member of Delta Omega, the national honor society recognizing excellence in the field of public health; the ASPH/Pfizer Public Health Academy of Distinguished Teachers; and the Society for American Law Teachers. In 2016, during President Obama’s second term, Professor Teitelbaum became the first lawyer named to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary’s Advisory Committee on National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives (a.k.a. “Healthy People”), the national agenda aimed at improving the health of all Americans over a 10-year span.
