Books by Elizabeth Tobin-Tyler

Elizabeth Tobin-Tyler, JD, MA,is Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at the Alpert Medical School and of Health Services, Policy and Practice at the Brown University School of Public Health. She is Co-Director of the Health Systems Science courses at the Alpert Medical School. She teaches, writes and consults in the areas of health policy, health equity and public health law and ethics. Her research focuses on the role of law and policy in the social determinants of health, community-based and health system interventions that address health disparities, and interprofessional medical-legal education. Professor Tobin-Tyler is a national expert in the development of medical-legal partnerships, which integrate medicine, public health and legal services to identify, address and prevent health-harming social and legal needs of patients, clinics and populations. She is senior editor and a contributor to the first textbook on the topic,Poverty, Health and Law: Readings and Cases for Medical-Legal Partnership(Carolina Academic Press, 2011). In 2013, she was awarded the Distinguished Advocate award by the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership for her work in promoting the medical-legal partnership model and for developing interprofessional medical-legal education. In 2014, Professor Tobin-Tyler was selected as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Future of Public Health Law Education Faculty Fellow. She has served on a number of boards and advisory councils including the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership board, the National Advisory Council for the Accelerating Interprofessional Community-Based Education and Practice Initiative, and the National Advisory Council for the Learning Collaborative on Health Equity and Young Children. Department of Health Policy, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University