Joanna Weinberg

Adjunct Professor Joanna Weinberg received a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1972, and an LL.M. from Columbia Law School in 1980. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow from 1992-94 in the Program on Health Policy and Health Services Research at UC San Francisco, where she is currently Associate Professor of Law, Policy and Ethics, and a consultant for the Integrating Medicine and Public Health Program. She has been a Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society, UC Berkeley; the Murray Center for Research on People, Radcliffe College, Harvard University; and at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, Queen's College, London.

Professor Weinberg's research involves health policy and health law; biomedicine and bioethics; and emergency and disaster preparedness. She is Principal Investigator on a grant studying the California stem cell agency, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Together with a Clinical Professor at UCSF, she teaches a seminar in Public Health & Homelessness: Intersections of Law and Health Care, available to both Hastings Law students and UCSF medical students; at Hastings, she teaches the Seminar in State and Local Government Problems, together with two other Hastings faculty, and will teach Health Law and Policy in spring 2007.