Jennifer L. Herbst

Jennifer L. Herbst is a Professor of Law & Medical Sciences at Quinnipiac University's School of Law and Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine. She currently serves as a community member on the adult and pediatric ethics committees for Yale-New Haven Hospital. She has also served as the 2019-2020 Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Health Law, Policy and Ethics at the University of Ottawa and one of ten national fellows in the Future of Public Health Law Teaching program underwritten by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She has spent years on both an Institutional Review Board and an Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee at major research institutions.

Prior to joining the Quinnipiac faculty, she taught at Temple University's Beasley School of Law as an Abraham L. Freedman fellow. Earlier in her career, she worked as defense counsel for hospitals, health care practitioners, and pharmaceutical companies at a law firm in Philadelphia.

Her research looks at the intersection between health, ethics, equity, law, and money. Her work has been published by the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, the Hastings Center Report, the Journal of Legal Medicine, the American Journal of Bioethics, the Journal of Clinical Ethics, PLoS One, Public Health Reports, BMC Medical Ethics, and Health Matrix. Her current research projects include: (1) a multidisciplinary ethics workgroup that crafted, revised, and is now evaluating COVID-related health care system policies related to the allocation of limited resources; and (2) a deep dive into the historic origins of the ethical and legal frameworks used to evaluate health care decision-making for patients unable to make decisions for themselves.