Sara Rosenbaum JD

Sara Rosenbaum, JD

Harold and Jane Hirsh Professor of Health Law and Policy, and
Founding Chair, Department of Health Policy and Management
Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University

Sara Rosenbaum J.D. is the Harold and Jane Hirsh Professor of Health Law and Policy and Founding Chair of the Department of Health Policy at George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health. Professor Rosenbaum has devoted her career to health justice for medically underserved populations, emphasizing public engagement, along with academic and judicial scholarship, as core aspects of her work. Among her many public service activities, Professor Rosenbaum is a member of the National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine and the National Academy of Social Insurance and is the incoming Board Chair of FAIRHealth, the nation’s largest source of health care cost and utilization information. Professor Rosenbaum has also served on the CDC’s Director’s Advisory Committee and its Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice. She previously served as Board Chair of AcademyHealth and the National Academy for State Health Policy. Professor Rosenbaum was a founding Commissioner on Congress’s Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC), which she chaired from January 2016 through April 2017.