Primary Faculty:
Michelle M. Mello, J.D., Ph.D., M.Phil.
C. Boyden Gray Associate Professor of Health Policy and Law
Dr. Mello is the Director of the Program in Law and Public Health. She teaches courses in Public Health Law and the Ethical Basis of the Practice of Public Health at HSPH and a course in Law and Public Health at Harvard Law School.
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Adjunct Faculty:
David M. Studdert, LL.B., Sc.D., M.P.H.
Adjunct Associate Professor of Law and Public Health
Dr. Studdert holds degrees in law (University of Melbourne, Australia) and health policy (Harvard University), and was a fellow in medical ethics at Harvard Medical School in 1997-98. Prior to joining the Harvard faculty, Dr. Studdert was a Policy Analyst at RAND in Santa Monica, California. Dr. Studdert's primary faculty appointment is as Professor and Federation Fellow in the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences of the University of Melbourne in Australia.
Dr. Studdert’s research focuses on legal and regulatory issues in the health care sector, including medical malpractice, quality of care, dispute resolution, discrimination and disability law, and injury compensation. He is currently involved in a study of utilization review and coverage appeals in two California-based HMOs and an epidemiologic study of medical errors in hospitals.
Dr. Studdert teaches a summer course in the Ethical Basis of the Practice of Public Health at HSPH.
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Troyen A. Brennan, M.D., J.D., M.P.H.
Adjunct Professor of Law and Public Health
Dr. Brennan is Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Aetna, Inc. He was formerly Professor of Law and Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and President of the Brigham and Women's Physicians Organization.  Dr. Brennan received law, medicine and public health degrees from Yale University, and he trained in internal medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Dr. Brennan's research interests concern legal and ethical issues in medicine and public health. He has written over 200 peer reviewed articles and four books.
Benjamin Moulton, J.D., M.P.H.
Adjunct Lecturer
Mr. Moulton is the Executive Director of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics. He graduated with honors from Harvard College and received his law degree from Georgetown University Law Center and his M.P.H. from the Harvard School of Public Health. Mr. Moulton has had an extensive career in health care law serving clients in both the private and public sectors. He was the first legal counsel to George Washington University Medical Center which involved providing legal advice to a medical school, 550-bed teaching hospital, 800 affiliated physicians and an HMO owned by the medical center. His research interests lie in areas of patient safety and biomedical science and law. He served as Principal investigator on a NIH funded project "DNA Fingerprinting and Civil Liberties." For the last several years he has worked with the CDC on convening an annual "Public Health and Law" symposium which seeks to educate various stakeholders on the uses of law to improve the public's health. He has taught health law courses at HSPH for many years and currently oversees the Law and Public Health Practicum course.
Zita Lazzarini, J.D., M.P.H.
Adjunct Associate Professor on Law and Public Health
Ms. Lazzarini received her law degree from the Hastings College of Law at the University of California and her M.P.H. degree from the Harvard School of Public Health. Currently she is Assistant Professor of Community Medicine and Director of the Program in Medical Humanities, Health Law, and Ethics at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. She has been working with the CDC coordinating the reform of state laws concerning privacy and confidentiality and various AIDS prevention efforts. Her research interests include AIDS, International Health, human rights and public health law.
Ms. Lazzarini has taught at both the Harvard School of Public Health and the Harvard Law School. She current teaches an HSPH course on legal and ethical aspects of the AIDS epidemic.
George B. Moseley, III, M.B.A., J.D.
Adjunct Lecturer on Health Law and Management
Mr. Moseley teaches courses on Legal and Management Issues in Health Care Reform, Legal and Management Issues in Competitive Health Care Delivery and Financing, Managing People in Health Care Organizations, and Health Care in the Workplace. Within the past year he has published through Aspen, Managed Care Strategies: A Physician Practice Desk Reference.
Mr. Moseley served as Assistant General Counsel in the Executive Office of Human Services in the state government of Massachusetts, as well as Special Assistant Attorney General. He also practiced law in the Health Law department of the Boston law firm, Warner & Stackpole. He received his M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School and his law degree from the University of Michigan Law School.
Alicia Ely Yamin, J.D., M.P.H.
Instructor
Ms. Yamin is Director of Research at Physicians for Human Rights and an Instructor at the Harvard School of Public Health. She received her law degree from Harvard Law School, and her Master of Public Health degree from the Harvard School of Public Health.
She has conducted documentation and advocacy with human rights NGOs in Latin America and the United States for over 15 years and has published several books and dozens of articles on health and human rights in both English and Spanish. In the United States, Yamin is on the Boards of the Center for Economic and Social Rights and Mental Disability Rights International, as well as on the advisory board of the Center for Policy Analysis on Trade and Health. In Peru, she is on the advisory boards of the Program on Human Rights and Health of the Asociación pro Derechos Humanos (APRODEH) and the Health and Human Rights Program at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, as well as MINGAPeru. She is on the editorial review boards of the Human Rights Quarterly (US) and the Revista Iberoamericana de Derechos Humanos (Mexico).
Ms. Yamin teaches in the summer course in the Ethical Basis of the Practice of Public Health at HSPH.