Medha D. Makhlouf, JD
Elsie de R. and Samuel P. Orlando Distinguished Professor and Director, Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic, Penn State Dickinson Law (Pennsylvania)
Medha’s research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of health law, immigrants’ rights, and poverty law. She is the founding director of the Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic at Penn State Dickinson Law. The clinic aims to address the health-harming impact of patients’ unmet legal needs through collaboration with health care providers. In 2020, Medha was named an Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity to support this work.
Medha’s scholarship has been published in legal, public health, and medical journals. She is currently writing her first book, Health Justice for Migrants, which will examine the range of laws affecting access to health care for noncitizens living in the United States. The book will reveal the root causes of health inequalities in this population and point toward the types of reforms needed to address them. Medha received her undergraduate degree from Brown University and her law degree from Yale Law School.