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Health & Environmental Legislation Clinic

Students in the Health & Environmental Legislation Clinic design, draft and evaluate legislation on rapidly-evolving issues in health law, including problems of privacy, patient protection, new technology and industry reorganization.

Students may count the Health & Environmental Legislation Clinic toward the Concentration in Health Law.

Health & Environmental Legislation Projects

• Reducing the spread of hepatitis and HIV
  Sen. Robert A. O'Leary
• Reducing environmental causes of asthma in children
  Rep. Kathleen Teahan
• Providing health insurance for small business employees
  Rep. Ruth Balser
• Preventing loss of cranberry bogs to over-development
  Rep. Thomas J. O'Brien
• Assuring health insurance coverage for experimental cancer treatments
  Rep. Gale Candaras
• Encouraging organ donation
  Rep. Thomas N. George
• Providing affordable preventive dental care for children
  Rep. Kathleen Teahan
• Providing mental health services to juvenile offenders
  Rep. Kay Kahn
• Assuring health insurance coverage for therapies for autism
  Sen. Michael W. Morrissey
• Assuring health insurance coverage for emergency medical treatment
  Laurie C. Tingsley Foundatio
• Preventing conflicts of interest in referrals to doctor-owned medical facilities
  Rep. Christopher Hodgkins
• Regulating HMO capitation policies
  Rep. Kathleen Teahan
• Assuring health insurance coverage for hearing aids
  Sen. Stephen M. Brewer