Elizabeth Tobin-Tyler, JD, MA, is Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice and Interim Director of the Master’s in Public Health Program at the Brown University School of Public Health. She teaches in the areas of reproductive rights and justice, public health law and ethics, health policy, and health justice. Her scholarship focuses on women’s health, reproductive justice, intimate partner violence, the structural and legal determinants of health equity, and public health law and policy.
Professor Tobin-Tyler edited Poverty, Health and Law: Readings and Cases for Medical-Legal Partnership, and co-authored with Joel Teitelbaum, Essentials of Health Justice: A Primer (Jones and Bartlett Learning, 2019) and Essentials of Health Justice: Law, Policy and Structural Change (Jones and Bartlett Learning, 2022). Her scholarship has been published in multiple journals, including The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA Forum, American Journal of Public Health, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, The Lancet, Health Affairs, The Journal of Health and Human Rights, Journal of Legal Medicine, and the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics.
She holds a BA and MA from the University of Texas at Austin and a JD from Northeastern University School of Law. She has been selected for several fellowships and honors, including for the Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine Forum by the National Academy of Medicine, as a Public Health Law Education Faculty Fellow by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and as a fellow at the Law, Health, Justice Centre at the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia.