Joanna K. Weinberg, Senior Lecturer in Law

Joanna Weinberg received a BA from Brandeis University in 1968, a JD from Harvard University in 1972, and an LLM in Jurisprudence from Columbia University in 1980. In 2004 she received a Certificate in Health Policy Research from the University of California, San Francisco Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in Health Policy. Professor Weinberg is also Adjunct Associate Professor of Law, Policy and Ethics, Institute for Health & Aging, Integrating Medicine and Public Health Program. Her primary research involves health care and ethics, including policy and organizational issues relating to stem cell research; ethical and human subjects protection; pandemic disease, bioterror and disaster preparedness, and legislative and administrative issues in health policy.

She teaches in the Law & Health Sciences Concentration. Together with UCSF Medical School faculty, she developed and co-teaches a seminar in Public Health and Homelessness, which brings together UCSF medical students and Hastings Law students to discuss ways in which the medical and legal professions address the needs of the underserved through different lenses. At UCSF she serves on an Institutional Review Board, and on the Fellowship Committee for the Health Policy Research Program at the PRL Institute for Health Policy Research. 

Courses Taught: Public Health and Homelessness: Intersections of Law and Health, Seminar in State and Local Government Problems, Health Law, and Seminar in Law and Health Policy