PROFESSOR MAKHLOUF JOINS AAMC CENTER FOR HEALTH JUSTICE MULTISECTOR PARTNER GROUP
May 2025 — The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Center for Health Justice has named 10 individuals, including Professor Medha D. Makhlouf, to join its Multisector Partner Group that will inform and guide the Center’s programmatic and partnership building activities. The members represent sectors including arts, education, community health, housing, food and water, law, and others. The new members have been selected to provide their expertise, leadership, and perspectives, and to contribute to the center’s strategic planning and decision-making processes over the next three years.
Professor Makhlouf was interested in joining the Multisector Partner Group because of the organization’s commitment to ensuring that all communities have a genuine opportunity to thrive. She will bring to the group more than a decade of experience working in medical-legal partnerships (MLPs), including in the Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic at Penn State Dickinson Law. Professor Makhlouf is interested in learning from the Center’s research on co-creating communities and applying it to the Clinic’s work.
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 on sabbatical during the 2024-25 academic year, and is working on a book project titled Health Justice for Migrants.