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Home > Scholars @ USP > Robert Field, JD, MPH, PhD

 
     
  Robert Field, JD, MPH, PhD

 
   

Dr. Field underpins his teaching and research with diverse practical experience in health care law and regulation, health system planning and development, and health policy analysis. He has worked in private law firms, a major academic medical center, and policy research centers, including the Institute of Medicine. His consulting work has extended to the Japanese Ministry of Health.

He is frequently asked to comment for major newspapers on late-breaking developments in health care.

In addition to chairing USP’s Department of Health Policy and Public Health and directing the Health Policy Program, Dr. Field is a Senior Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Leonard Davis Institute and Lecturer in Health Care Systems at the Wharton School.

Expertise
 

 

  • Health Law & Regulation
  • Ethics and Health Policy
 
 
Involvement
 

 

  • Advisory Board, Health Law Institute, Widener University School of Law
  • Columnist on Health Care and Law, Pharmacy and Therapeutics
  • Board of Directors, Columbia Journal of Environmental Law
  • External Advisory Committeem, ECRI
  • Center for Vaccine Ethics and Policy, University of Pennsylvania Bioethics Center
 
 
 
Speaking Topics
 

 

  • Vaccine Policy
  • Drug Safety
  • Health Reform
  • Health Care Regulation
  • Medication Errors & Risk Management
  • Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology in the New Millennium
 
     
 
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