Shannon Rempe is the Program Director of the Advancing Public Health & Health Equity in the Courts program at the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University. She is an experienced public health attorney dedicated to advancing health equity through public health law and policy, litigation strategy, and collaborative advocacy. Across her work, Shannon embeds practices that center health and economic justice, redressing systemic harm, and the civil rights of health.
Shannon’s legal background includes advocacy related to health and social safety net programs, healthy food systems, access to health care, and healthy housing. Before joining Northeastern, Shannon was an attorney with ChangeLab Solutions where she conducted legal research and policy analysis on core issues of good governance, including legal authority, preemption, the policymaking process, and cross-sector collaboration. Her focus on state and local-level policy builds upon her earlier role as the Health Law Fellow at the Kentucky Equal Justice Center (KEJC), where she was co-counsel in a federal class action challenging unconstitutional medical debt collection practices in Kentucky and helped develop KEJC’s reproductive justice and sexual rights portfolio.
Shannon earned a JD with a Health Law concentration and an MPH in Health Management and Policy from St. Louis University, and a BS in Exercise Science from Truman State University. She lives in Denver, CO with her partner and their dog.