For the past 20 years the Harvard Law School Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation, home to both the Health Law and Policy Clinic and the Food Law and Policy Clinic, has worked to incrase access to healthcare for vulnerable populations, particularly low-income people with chronic illness, as well as to support legal, regulatory, and policy structures that enable people to make healthy lifestyle choices. The Center's projects span a variety of federal, state, and local access-to-care issues, and include building and supporting state advocacy structures through our State Healthcare Access Research Project (SHARP); informing passage and implementation of federal healthcare reform; and working with state partners to identify and address threats to the Medicaid Program.

Find out more about the Harvard Law School Health Law and Policy Clinic here.

Find out more about the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic here.

Students wishing to enroll in this clinic must enroll in the Health, Disability and Estate Planning: Law and Policy Clinical Workshop A (fall) or B (spring). The workshop brings together students who are working in direct services clinics (Disability Law and Estate and Permanency Planning Law) and the Health Law and Policy clinic. The workshop explores the important links between legislative and regulatory policy making and implementation, on one hand, and the complex on-the-ground consequences of those policies as they relate to individual client representation, on the other.

For more information, contact Clinical Professor Robert Greenwald at rgreenwa@law.harvard.edu, (617) 390-2584.