PROFESSOR MAKHLOUF NAMED ATLANTIC FELLOW FOR HEALTH EQUITY
February 2020 — Professor Makhlouf recently began her tenure as an Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity, a one-year, non-residential fellowship program that aims to create a global network of committed leaders working across societies and nations to promote health equity. The program’s two-week initial convening in January brought twenty new fellows and several senior fellows to Washington, D.C., from around the world.
Fellows receive intensive learning and growth experiences in a cohort-network as they focus on their fellowship projects. Professor Makhlouf’s project involves an innovative collaboration between the Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic, which she directs, and the International Healthcare Professionals Program, a community-based organization that provides comprehensive support to international medical graduates who have settled in central Pennsylvania and who seek to become licensed healthcare providers in the United States.
Each day of the initial convening, Professor Makhlouf tweeted a summary of activities and learning, along with a representative picture. A full story about Professor Makhlouf’s selection as an Atlantic Fellow with additional details about her fellowship project is available here.
Professor Medha D. Makhlouf is an Assistant 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 or is forthcoming in the New York University Law Review, the Northwestern University Law Review Online, and the American Journal of Law and Medicine. Professor Makhlouf’s work is available at https://works.bepress.com/medha-makhlouf/.