PROFESSOR MEDHA MAKHLOUF DELIVERS GUEST LECTURE AT UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN LAW SCHOOL
October 2024 — Professor Medha Makhlouf delivered a guest lecture to students enrolled in the Health Law class at University of Michigan Law School. At the invitation of Professor Nicholson Price, Professor Makhlouf spoke about her research on topics at the intersection of health law and immigration law.
Although most of the students had no formal exposure to topics at the intersection of health law and immigration law, Professor Makhlouf designed the lecture to elicit from students what they already knew — from personal experience, other courses, and the media. Students were highly engaged during the interactive discussion, which covered three main topics: immigration status as a social determinant of health; laws and policies governing immigrant eligibility for publicly funded health insurance; and immigration surveillance in health care.
After the lecture, Professor Makhlouf joined Professors Price, Paulina Arnold, and Jessica Lefort for dinner (pictured).
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 New York University Law Review, the California Law Review Online, and the Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law & Ethics. Professor Makhlouf’s work is available at https://works.bepress.com/medha-makhlouf/. She is on sabbatical during the 2024-25 academic year, and is working on a book project tentatively titled “Health Justice for Migrants: Constructing an Inclusionary Legal System.”