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Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy
The Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy exists primarily to educate lawyers and health care industry professionals regarding the extraordinarily complex set of laws that govern patients, health care providers, manufacturers and suppliers. Furthermore, Center faculty and researchers produce scholarship and recommendations for policy on the varied and complex issues posed by health and pharmaceutical law. The Center fosters informed dialogue among policymakers, consumer advocates, the medical profession and industry in the search for solutions to the ethical, legal, and social questions presented in the health and pharmaceutical arena. As part of its educational mission, the Center is a leader in providing compliance education and training on the wide-ranging state, federal, and international mandates that apply to the development, safety, use and promotion of drugs and devices.
The Center offers:
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Academic Programs. The Center offers three degree programs for JD, LLM and MSJ students, an online Graduate Certificate in Health & Hospital Law, as well as certificate programs in Healthcare Compliance.
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Health & Public Policy. The Center researches, reviews, and develops policy recommendations on key issues of health and pharmaceutical law to inform and shape policy at the state and national levels.
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Scholarship. The Center produces scholarship through journal publication and white papers on emerging legal, ethical, and social issues in health and pharmaceutical law.
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Special Programs. The Center hosts guest speaker programs and educational fora on local, national and international health and pharmaceutical issues by leading experts from the public and private sectors to examine important policy and legal issues.
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Healthcare Compliance. The Center offers intensive compliance training programs both in the US and Europe, on state, federal and international regulatory requirements that govern the research, approval, promotion, and sale of drugs and medical devices.
The Center operates under the leadership of Faculty Director and Professor of Law John Jacobi and Executive Director Simone Handler-Hutchinson. Full-time faculty fellows immerse themselves in producing white papers, position statements and articles in the areas of health care access, human subject research, mental health issues, health care compliance and non-profit governance. Faculty members bring to the Center’s work nationally recognized expertise in nanotechnology, health care finance, intellectual property law and bioethics, among other areas.