Rick Weinmeyer is an Assistant Professor of Law and a faculty member of the Beazley Institute for Health Law and Policy. Dr. Weinmeyer’s writes in the fields of public health law, health law, and public health ethics. His specific research interests focus on topics in public health that are often overlooked by law and policy because of stigma and social discomfort.
His work has been published or is forthcoming in the William & Mary Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Health & Place, and Health Affairs Forefront.
Prior to joining Loyola, Dr. Weinmeyer was a Jaharis Faculty Fellow in Health Law and Intellectual Property at DePaul University’s College of Law and spent four years at the American Medical Association where he worked with the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs. Before pursuing his doctorate and law degree, he oversaw National Institutes of Health-supported HIV/STI social and behavioral research grants at the University of Minnesota’s Division of Epidemiology and Community Health.
Dr. Weinmeyer completed his Ph.D. in Social Sciences and Public Health at Northwestern University, his J.D. and M.A. in Bioethics from the University of Minnesota, and his M.Phil. in Sociology at Cambridge University.