Course Speakers

Joel Teitelbaum is Professor Emeritus of Public Health and Law. He is the former Co-Principal Investigator of the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership and for 11 years he served as Vice Chair for Academic Affairs in the Department of Health Policy and Management. 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.