Nylca Muñoz holds a JD and a Doctorate in Public Health (DrPH), with a concentration in Social Determinants of Health, from the University of Puerto Rico and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from Harvard Law School. Her scholarship examines the intersections of healthcare system crises, public debt, and broader fiscal and economic transformations, focusing on Puerto Rico and its colonial context. She has extensively researched the evolution and legal transformations of Puerto Rico’s healthcare system from the 1950s to the present. As an American Bar Foundation Access to Justice Scholar, she worked using community-based participatory research to investigate how Medicaid beneficiaries in Puerto Rico experience access to justice. She is an Assistant Professor of Law at the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico School of Law, where she also serves as the coordinator of the institution’s first Health Law and Justice Clinic, established in partnership with the National Health Law Program and the Puerto Rico Access to Justice Fund Foundation.
