Health Law & Policy Program

About the Program

The Health Law & Policy Program at Wake Forest Law is designed to improve the delivery of health care in the United States by educating students, professionals, and the public on the impact of healthcare law and policy. The program’s goal is to educate students on how healthcare laws and policies function and equip them with the tools they will need to have an impact on important healthcare issues of the day. The program will also prepare participating students to help improve the overall quality of health care offered in the United States.

Program Goals

The program mobilizes academic resources and works with lawmakers and other professionals in medicine, business, and law to accomplish three goals:

• First, inform lawmakers, public officials, and professionals, and assist them with active health policy issues
• Second, educate and motivate students to become involved with the improvement of healthcare delivery
• Third, engage and educate the public at large on critical issues about health care

Rather than observe healthcare issues after the fact, the Health Law & Policy Program anticipates vital issues as they emerge and develops the expertise and resources to participate directly with them. Students in the program will be trained with the knowledge and experience to engage effectively with healthcare public policy in their careers.

About the Founding Director

The founding director of the Health Law & Policy Program, Professor Mark Hall, is one of the nation’s leading scholars in the areas of healthcare law, public policy, and bioethics. The author or editor of 20 books, including Making Medical Spending Decisions (Oxford University Press), and Healthcare Law and Ethics (Aspen), he is currently engaged in research in the areas of healthcare reform, access to care by the uninsured, and insurance regulation. Professor Hall has published scholarship in the law reviews at Berkeley, Chicago, Duke, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Stanford universities, and his articles have been reprinted in a dozen casebooks and anthologies. He also teaches in Wake Forest University’s Graduate Program for Bioethics and its MBA program, and he is on the research faculty at the Medical School. Professor Hall regularly consults with government officials, foundations, and think tanks about healthcare public policy issues.