Professor Medha D. Makhlouf presents at Law and Society Annual Meeting

CARLISLE, PA—Professor Medha D. Makhlouf recently presented a chapter of her book manuscript, titled “The Threadbare Health Care Safety Net for Uninsured Noncitizens,” at the Law and Society Annual Meeting in San Francisco during the final weekend in May.

Makhlouf was on a panel titled “Citizenship & Public Good” with scholars of law, political science, and sociology, and she received helpful feedback from discussant Dr. Michelle S. Dromgold-Sermen, assistant professor of sociology at George Mason University.

“This was a particularly valuable opportunity for me to share my work because I am hoping that the book finds an interdisciplinary audience,” said Makhlouf.

Professor Medha D. Makhlouf is the Elsie de R. and Samuel P. Orlando Distinguished Professor and founding director of the Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic at Penn State Dickinson Law. She has a joint appointment in the Department of Public Health Sciences at Penn State College of Medicine. Professor Makhlouf’s research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of health law, immigrants’ rights, and poverty law and policy. Her recent scholarship has been published in the Boston University Law Review, New York University Law Review, and the Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law & Ethics. Professor Makhlouf is currently writing a book, tentatively titled Health Justice for Migrants, which is under contract with Cambridge University Press.