Joel B. Teitelbaum, JD, LLM - Department of Health Policy, School of Public Health and Health Services, George Washington University

Joel Teitelbaum, J.D., LL.M., is Associate Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Health Policy and the Managing Director of the Hirsh Health Law and Policy Program at The George Washington University Medical Center’s School of Public Healthand Health Services (SPHHS).   He has taught graduate courses in health care law, public health law, minority health policy, and long-term care law and policy, and an undergraduate survey course in health law, and he has authored or co-authored many articles and policy papers on civil rights issues in health care, managed care, and behavioral health care quality. 

Professor Teitelbaum is a co-recipient of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research, which he used to explore the creation of a new framework for applying Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to the modern health care system.   He serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Center for the Study of Race and Bioethics at the DePaul University College of Law, and as a faculty mentor to Project HEALTH D.C., part of a national student organization addressing socioeconomic, medical, and environmental causes of poor health in low-income children.  He also assists in the editing of the Public Health Law Section of Public Health Reports, the bi-monthly journal of the U.S. Public Health Service. 

Sara E. Wilensky, JD, MPP - Department of Health Policy, School of Public Health and Health Services, George Washington University

Sara Wilensky, JD, MPP is an Assistant Research Professor of Health Policy and the Managing Director of the Geiger Gibson Program in Community Health Policy at The George Washington University Medical Center’s School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS). She co-teaches one of two core health policy analysis courses required of all health policy majors in the Masters of Public Health degree program at SPHHS. In addition, she teaches the introductory health policy course required of all undergraduate public health majors, and is assisting with the development and teaching of the final seminar course required of all undergraduate public health majors.

Professor Wilensky has been the principal investigator, co-principal investigator, or lead attorney on numerous projects relating to various aspects of financing and access to community health center services, public financing and access to HIV preventive care, financing of public hospitals, and data sharing barriers and opportunities between Public Health and Medicaid agencies.