Christie Hager

Chris Hager’s research and teaching focus on state regulation of health care and public health, health care access, and legislation as a tool for policy change. Chris has served on the staff of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, most recently as Chief Health Counsel in the Office of the Speaker during the development, enactment and first three years of implementation of the historic health reform law passed in 2006.  She is the former Deputy Director of the Division of Public Health Practice at HSPH, and was the first Senior Fellow appointed at the Schneider Institute for Health Policy at Brandeis University’s Heller School. Chris was the Director of the Massachusetts Health Policy Forum and a member of the editorial staff of the New England Journal of Medicine.

ID 261, Practice of Health Care Management and Policy

Hager CL. The Massachusetts Health Care Plan. In: Furrow BR, Greaney TL, Johnson SH, Jost TS, Schwartz RL. Health law: Cases, materials and problems. 6^th ed. St. Paul, MN: Thomson/West, 2008:583-5.

Hager, CL. Massachusetts Health Reform: A Model of Shared Responsibility. The Journal of Legal Medicine, 29(1):11-22 (2008).

Hager, CL, Tobler L. Universal Health Care: Can it Work? State Legislatures Magazine, 33(10): 22-26 (December 2007).

Hager, CL. The Ethical Health Lawyer in the Legislature. The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 35(4): 744-747 (Winter 2007). 

Hager, CL. Massachusetts Health Reform: A Social Compact and a Bold Experiment. The University of Kansas Law Review, 55(5): 1313-29 (June 2007).

Hager CL. Health Reform in Massachusetts. The Legislative Lawyer, National Conference of State Legislatures Legal Services Staff Section, Volume XX, Issue 2, July 2006 (Denver, CO).

McDonough JE, Hager CL, Rosman B. Health care reform stages a comeback in Massachusetts. New England Journal of Medicine, 336:148-51 (1997).

Boston Bar Association

            Chair, Health Law Section Ad Hoc Committee on Health Reform

            Chair, Health Law Section (2004-2006)

Massachusetts Public Health Association, President (2001-2003)

American Public Health Association, Chair, Health Law Forum (2000-2005)

American Bar Association

American Society for Law, Medicine and Ethics

Boston University School of Public Health, Distinguished Alumni Award, 2007

Massachusetts Association of Jewish Federations and Jewish Community Relations Council, Legislative Staff Achievement Award, 2007

Massachusetts Public Health Association, Alfred L. Frechette Award, 2005

J.D., 1995, University of Connecticut School of Law

M.P.H., 1991, Boston University School of Public Health 

A.B., 1986, Smith College