Health Law: a Career Guide
Health Law: A Career Guide Written By: Catherine Pattanayak, Assistant Director Joan Ruttenberg, Director of the Heyman Fellowship Program & Annelise Eaton, 2012 Summer Fellow Bernard Koteen Office of Public Interest Advising Wasserstein Hall Suite 4039 www.law.harvard.edu/current/careers/opia Table of Contents ___________________________ Section I: An Introduction to Health Law…p. 1 Section II: Health Law Issue Areas…p. 4 Section III: Health Law Practice Settings…p. 10 Section IV: Types of Practice…p. 16 Section V: Planning Your Public Interest Health Law Career…p. 20 Section VI: Professional Narratives…p. 25 Section VII: Extracurricular Activities…p. 33 Section VIII: Health Law Courses throughout Harvard University…p. 35 Section IX: Selected Health Law Organizations…p. 39 Section X: Health Law Fellowships, Honors Programs, and Entry-Level Hiring…p. 46 Section I: An Introduction to Health Law Health law is an incredibly broad, diverse and dynamic field of law. Health lawyers work on cases and policy relating to access to care, insurance coverage, difficult ethical choices (particularly at the beginning and end of life), providers of care (and how these providers are organized and paid), the safety of our drugs and food supply, disease prevention and treatment, and many other fascinating topics. In part because of the breadth of the field, health law also cuts across and involves doctrine and practice from a wide array of areas, including contract law, tax law, corporations and nonprofit organization, insurance and pension law, employment and labor law, public benefits law, torts, ethics, criminal law, administrative law, Organization Profile: privacy, civil rights, reproductive rights, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest (NYLPI) constitutional law, and statutory drafting and www.nylpi.org interpretation—even First Amendment religious liberty and freedom of speech concepts can be Since the 1970s, New York Lawyers for the Public implicated in the field of health law.
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