Director of the Health Policy and Law Lab, Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice

Overview

Erin C. Fuse Brown, J.D., M.P.H., is a Professor of Health Services, Policy & Management with the Center at Brown University School of Public Health and a faculty member of the Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research. She specializes in health law and policy and legal translation of health services research. Her research focuses on health care finance, competition policy, consolidation, private equity investment, corporatization, regulation, consumer protection, and cost-control. Professor Fuse Brown’s work has influenced health policy at the state and national levels. She has testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Federal Trade Commission, and state legislative committees, and she has consulted with the National Academy for State Health Policy, Milbank Memorial Fund, and federal and state policymakers on legal and policy strategies to protect health care consumers, control health care costs, and address health care consolidation. Prior to coming to Brown, she was the Catherine C. Henson Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Law, Health & Society at Georgia State University College of Law. She received a J.D. from Georgetown University, an M.P.H. from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and a B.A. from Dartmouth College.

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